The Longlists of 2025

Following my Top Ten, the longlists - the 15 finalists in the 17 other categories...

My Top Ten of 2025

This year, I've decided to try something different. On my Letterboxd, I have, alphabetically, the 23 movies I considered for this list. I have finally whittled that number down to this Top Ten, which I present here, not in alphabetical order, nor ranked, but in the order in which I saw them:

The 101 Movies of 2025

While it’s been quiet here since September, believe it or not, I have been watching and writing and working on things - including catching up with 2025 releases! After all, the nominees for the 98th Academy Awards will be announced January 22nd, just eight days hence….

The 2000 Retro Hollmann Awards Winners

Very late, but here they are! You thrilled at the Top Ten, pored over the nominations, and now - the winners of the 2000 Retro Hollmann Awards:

The 2000 Retro Hollmann Awards Nominations

After 122 movies and several months, here are the nominees for the 2000 Retro Hollmann Awards:

My Top Ten of 2000

Not to be too contrarian, but only two movies in my Top Ten were nominated at the Academy Awards, none of them for Best Picture, two nods and zero wins between them. Not to play favorites, but four of my Top Ten are not just films I'd seen before, but films I'd seen many times before. As for my almost-made-its, here they are, linking to my original reviews: Almost Famous, American Psycho, Billy Elliot, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Mission to Mars, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Red Planet, Snatch, Vatel, The Virgin Suicides, and What Women Want.

And now, the Top Ten...in alphabetical order:

Up for Grabs?: Best Picture, 2000

When Awards Season began, everyone said the race was wide open. The Los Angeles Film Critics chose Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as Best Film, the New York Film Critics Circle chose Traffic as Best Film, the National Board of Review named Quills the Best Film of 2000, and the Golden Globes gave Almost Famous its award for Best Picture - Musical/Comedy. As always, the race narrowed as the year continued. Gladiator won the BAFTA for Best Film, the Golden Globe for Best Picture - Drama, and the PGA Award for Outstanding Producers of Theatrical Motion Pictures.

The final group of nominees came down to: Chocolat, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Gladiator, and Traffic. And the film that kept winning, did so again:

As I fully reviewed all the other films of the year in order of their release, I shall do the same here, before ranking them: