The L1P's Annual Movie 'Blurt'

Welcome back to my annual write-up of films I've loved over the course of the last year. Frequent visitors to my annual 'warblings' whether that was during my online critic days / Tumblr era or now in this Blogger-Letterboxd 'marriage' know that I’ll throw out a few special mentions to all the films that I wish I could’ve included but couldn’t make fit (yet believe they deserve a shout-out regardless) and then I get stuck into what I think are the 25 best films of the year. If I'm honest, this has been one of the most enjoyable years in a while for being a fan of film. The conversation around the 'death of cinema' will likely use 2025 as one of its exhibits as so many of the big cinematic events (like Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning were semi-disappointments) whilst so many of the best movies were tucked away as some straight-to-streamer release or a quietly dumped VOD drop. As always, films listed are based on their UK release date whether that...