viewLarry's Faves: 2025 Movies
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Bad year for movies. Or a bad year for me seeing movies. Award season rules push studios to cram releases at year’s end, and it's hard to keep up. I will catch up with films I missed in Jan-March.
My list, ranked, with microreviews:
1. One Battle After Another: Brilliant, has a tragic flaw
2. Sinners: Juke Joint Cinema
3. Pavements: Larry’s100 Review
4. Weapons: Campy, creepy, freaky
5. Baltimorons: Larry’s100 Review
6. The Ballad of Wallis Island: Tim Key is brilliant
7. KPop Demon Hunters: Trust the phenom
8. John Candy: I Like Me: Sadder than you’d think
9. Fantastic Four: Didn’t suck
10. Nonnas: More sweet than savory
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viewThe Baltimorons 2025, Duplass Brothers Productions, Directed by Jay Duplass (4 out of 5 Hot Chocolates)
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There is a recent tradition of established film directors giving their elevated spin on the Christmas movie. See Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers and David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers. Mumblecore filmmaker Jay Duplass is the 2025 entry.
Baltimorons is a melancholy May-December Rom-Com between a disillusioned millennial improv comedian and a divorced post-menopausal dentist in a mid-life rut. Their day-long accidental adventure reignites their joy for life, against a backdrop of grimy urban Christmas pastiche.
Duplass mines the beats and tropes of a holiday romance but eschews the holly-jolly trappings of Hallmark for a realistic take on loneliness and connection.
Watch it.
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viewOh. What. Fun. Amazon 2025 (1.75 out of 5 Hot Chocolates)
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Leary, Felicity Jones, Dominic Sessa, Joan Chen, and Jason Schwartzman. Directed by Michael Showalter
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This movie is a holiday party eggnog left out to curdle. I imagine an Amazon exec dumping 1970s gender stereotypes, check-collecting stars, and meanness as 'satire' into the blender and thinking “Yum.” Gross.
Borrowing plot and themes from The Family Stone, Home Alone, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, writer/director Michael Showalter doesn’t like the genre enough to craft a compelling family dramedy. It's slice-and-bake Christmas cookies sold as “from scratch.”
Every year, streamers throw money and stars at the Christmas TV movie template, attempting to legitimize something that doesn’t need it. A holiday message: More isn’t always better.
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viewMerry Christmas, Ted Cooper Hallmark, 2025 (4 out of 5 Hot Chocolates)
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The season’s first banger. Atypical male lead, fresh story beats, and riffing on zany Anchorman-style comedies. The romance is a Christmas Ale buzz. You root for leads Ted and Hope.
Supporting cast matters in holiday movies. From Ted’s high-strung sibling to the Sole Sisters