{"id":21851,"date":"2026-01-02T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=21851"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:02:37","slug":"favorites-movies-seen-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2026\/01\/02\/favorites-movies-seen-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorites movies seen in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I watched 44 movies in 2025.<\/p>\r\n<p>My favorite was a rewatch: the original <cite>Moana<\/cite>.<\/p>\r\n<p>My second-tier favorites were all new to me, though only one was new in 2025:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li><cite>Happy Death Day<\/cite> (2017)<\/li>\r\n  <li><cite>Totally Killer<\/cite> (2023)<\/li>\r\n  <li><cite>Wake Up Dead Man<\/cite> (2025)<\/li>\r\n  <li><cite>Wild Robot<\/cite> (2024)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\u2026And the first two of those are in a subgenre that I was previously unaware of: time-loop or time-travel slasher movies. I usually strongly dislike slasher movies, but I often quite like time-loop and time-travel movies, and in these two cases, the stuff I liked outweighed the stuff I disliked. (Thanks to the person who recommended these! (not sure whether you want to be named here))<\/p>\r\n<p>I recently went and looked at various best-movies-of-2025 lists, and was surprised to see that they tended to consist (very roughly) of 40% movies that I knew about but had no interest in watching, 10% movies that I saw but didn\u2019t love, and 50% movies that I had never even heard of. I\u2019m apparently not nearly as aware of what\u2019s going on in the movie world as I used to be.<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>On a related side topic, I\u2019m not sure what I\u2019m going to nominate for the Hugo award in the Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Hugo category. Definitely <cite>KPop Demon Hunters<\/cite> (which was on my third-tier favorites list, not shown above), and <cite>Andor<\/cite> s2, and <cite>Murderbot<\/cite> s1. I haven\u2019t seen <cite>Sinners<\/cite> yet; will watch it before the nomination deadline. (I\u2019ve heard nothing but good things about it.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21852,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851\/revisions\/21852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}