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2025: AMC A-List and Alamo Pass – Watched and Recommended Movies for the Year

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Total cost paid for movies watched in 2025 in theatres: $844.30 ($332 in monthly subscriptions) … total value =$1,988
Favorite movie(s) of the year: Relay
Total movies watched in theatres 2025: 132 (19 Dolby, 4 Imax, 51 Alamo, 1 Cinemark, 1 Flix Brewhouse,  1 Japan Toho Cinemas, and 19 Screen Unseens)
Worst movie(s) of the year: Hurry Up Tomorrow

Movie Magic Moment: Movie Premiere of Novocaine

Favorite Movies of the Year (Letterboxd link here)

  1. Relay
  2. F1
  3. Eternity
  4. Rental Family
  5. Ella McCay
  6. Weapons
  7. Christy
  8. The Penguin Lessons
  9. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
  10. Elio
  11. The Roses
Worst Movies of the Year (Letterboxd link here)
  1. Hurry Up Tomorrow
  2. Keeper
  3. Anemone
  4. Until Dawn
  5. Flight Risk
  6. Die My Love
  7. The Toxic Avenger Unrated
  8. Marty Supreme
  9. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
  10. Hamnet
  11. Bone Lake
  12. Nickel Boys
  13. The Home
2025 movies I rated 4 stars on Letterboxd that didn’t make my top movies list:
  • Companion
  • The Brutalist
  • I’m Still Here
  • Novocaine
  • The Amateur
  • Lilo & Stitch
  • Thunderbolts*
  • Elio
  • Jurassic World Rebirth
  • Superman
  • Caught Stealing
  • Splitsville
  • Song Sung Blue
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025 movies I rated 3.5 stars on Letterboxd:
  • Presence
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Captain America: Brave New World
  • My Dead Friend Zoe
  • Last Breath
  • Heart Eyes
  • Mickey 17
  • Drop
  • Final Destination Bloodlines
  • Karate Kid: Legends
  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
  • Sinners
  • The Accountant²
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • The Life of Chuck
  • 40 Acres
  • The Phoenician Scheme
  • Friendship
  • M3GAN 2.0
  • Eddington
  • Oh, Hi
  • Together
  • The Nakend Gun
  • Freakier Friday
  • Honey Don’t!
  • Eleanor the Great
  • Dead of Winter
  • One Battle After Another
  • Good Fortune
  • Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
  • Frankenstein
  • TRON: Ares
  • Roofman
  • Predator: Badlands
  • Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
  • Zootopia 2
  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
  • Nuremberg
  • Wicked: For Good
Streamed movies I recommend that aren’t listed below, rated 3.5 stars or higher on Letterboxd:
  • Carry-On
  • The Beanie Bubble
  • Flow
  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  • Your Monster
  • Manchester by the Sea

Movies watched in theatres as re-releases or Master Pancakes (live comedy commentary):

  • Lethal Weapon
  • Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
  • Wicked: Re-release
  • Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Master Pancake: Spectre
  • Master Pancake Ghostbusters
  • Master Pancake The Evil Dead
  • Master Pancake Donnie Darko Director’s Cut
  • Master Pancake The Beekeeper
  • Hanksgiving
  • Master Pancake Inferno
  • The Master Pancake Xmas Show
  • Back to the Future: 40th Anniversary Movie Party
  • Lady Snowblood

 

Total cost paid for movies watched in 2024 in theatres: $562.02… total value =$1,417.34
Favorite movie of the year: Fly Me to the Moon (See top list on Letterboxd here)

Total cost paid for movies watched in 2023 in theatres: $453.74… total value =$1,315.26
Favorite movie of the year: Tetris and American Fiction (See top list on Letterboxd here)

Total cost paid for movies watched in 2022 in theatres: $295.88… total value =$1,167.40
Favorite movie of the year: Everything Everywhere All At Once (See top list on Letterboxd here)

Total cost paid for movies watched in 2021 in theatres: $253.55… total value =$1,019.57
Favorite movie of the year: CODA

Total cost paid for movies watched in 2020 in theatres and VOD: $112.7… total value =$327.34
Favorite movie of the year: Soul

Total cost paid for movies watched in 2019 in theatres: $278.15… total value = $1,281.67

Total cost paid for movies watched in 2018 in theatres: $297.42… total value = $839.45