More Movies from 2025,Other than Sinners!

The last time I wrote about the films that I had watched in 2025, I was in all praise for Sinners, what a brilliant movie by Ryan Coogler and Michael B Jordan (❣️) was simply superb in his double role as the tough twins, Smoke and Stack. When I like something, I can keep on writing pages about that, but not today, though, coz gurl got other movies to focus on too!! So here are a few other films released in 2025 that I managed to watch in 2026. I would share my unbiased thoughts about those:

1. Now You See Me: Now You Don't: It's been running as one of the most entertaining franchises, and this is the third part. While the first part was novel, the second, which kept the con game going fast and furious, was interesting as well. However, the latest outing failed to meet that expectation. I found the French connection and Lula's sudden reappearance to be too cliché. And why did Thaddeus have to die? I enjoy Rosemund Pike's performances, especially her roles with shades of grey, but this one was too much for me to digest! Her outfits as Veronica Vendermont were undoubtedly envious. And the French mansion was definitely a maze of mysteries. An okie-dokie one-time watch for me. If you are a Ruffalo fan, you would be highly disappointed.

2. 28 Years Later: I was quite upset that I could not watch this film in 2025, but now that I have watched it, I must say, it was not something that I would have missed much; however, what the movie left with was the hope for the next part, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. It was a much-anticipated movie in the Zombie genre. The gore was way more than the development of the actual story. But somehow, the idea of a decaying, apocalyptic society, which becomes so unbearable for a small boy and his mother that they prefer to explore the dangerous unknown, is indeed a mark of a great movie. This is what differentiates this Franchise from other Zombie movies- the constant parallel comparison of human nature with the undead. 

3. The Naked Gun: Lol! That's how it made me feel. First of all, Liam Neeson, in a hilarious movie, is absolutely unexpected. He is generally seen in serious roles, as a protector, either from Nazis or from dangerous packs of wolves, but comedy! Here also, he is the protector of the law, but in the wrong way. That his character has been portrayed as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of the legendary Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), keeps the curiosity going. Secondly, his pairing up with Pamela Anderson is definitely worth looking out for. I enjoyed watching Neeson's serious goofiness in this cop-comedy. He is so unfunny that it makes it funnier. It is a faulty, mindless film; perhaps it would not be appreciated much by fans of the earlier outings, but it made me laugh, and I liked it. The most striking dialogue :

• Frank Drebin Jr.: "You've got quite the rap sheet. It says here you did twenty years of man's laughter. Must have been quite the joke."
• Bank Robber: "You mean manslaughter?" 

 Watch it for some silly, mindless laughs. We need that quite often nowadays.

4. Nuremberg: How my list and focus shifts from the likes of The Naked Gun to the likes of Nuremberg is another highly solveworthy mystery. Anyway, I would keep on doing it my way. I had high hopes for this film, but some of the details are so questionable that, as a viewer, one cannot ignore them. I am not going into the nitty-gritty of that. I somehow liked the friendly bond between Dr Kelly, Mrs Göring, and her daughter, and how he managed to establish himself as a messenger between the captive Hermann Göring and his family. But then the immediate actions, like the overnight transfer of the Göring family to a camp without Kelly's knowledge, had a high likelihood of being somewhat impactful to the story, yet somehow failed to do so. The courtroom scenes of the video footage from Nazi camps were so brutal that they compelled me to fast forward. The performances are praiseworthy.

5. Dracula: A Love Tale: Unpopular opinion, but I am not a fan of  2024's Nosferatu, based on the book, Dracula. I had very few expectations from this movie, and the only two reasons I watched it were the presence of Christoph Waltz as Van Helsing and the fact that it has been described as a Love Story. I found the film to be moderately watchable, especially a standout for the scenes in which the Count has been searching for his beloved wife for centuries across different time periods and places. The mass transformation into vampires at one of the fashionable balls was visually extravagant. Caleb Landry Jones, as the main character, is worth mentioning. However, the character's chemistry with Mina, played by Zoe Bleu, lacked the spark. For that, I would always go back to Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder's portrayals of the same characters in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. 

Do let me know if there are any other noteworthy movies, other than the award-nominees like One Battle After The Other and Hamnet.