Thursday, January 01, 2026

Best of 2025 - From My Perspective

Here we go again... My 10 favorite films, albums and tracks of the year.  

I feel I was able to listen to a lot more music than the last few years... mostly because I'm commuting regularly to the office, which gave me a good chance to discover new stuff. I still struggle to find obvious stuff that I should listen to, particularly among certain genres, but I'm pretty happy with my selection of music. 

Same doesn't apply with movies though... There's been a lot of promising titles, but very few resonated with me.  

Eddington, The Naked Gun, Life of Chuck, House of Dynamite, After The Hunt and The Smashing Machine ranged from mediocre to OK, whereas even some films that made my list, like Bugonia, Sorry Baby and Friendship, despite being good... aren't quite the level you would want for a top 10 list. 

There's still hope for a lot of the films that have been slowly coming out... Hamnet, Secret Agent, No Other Choice and Blue Moon are just a few of them... 

There's sort of a structure with the order, but whereas with the movies feels very final, the others could change at any day. 


MOVIES

One Battle After Another
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
A Sentimental Value
Weapons
Sinners
Bugonia
Train Dreams
Friendship
Sorry, Baby


ALBUMS

Blondshell - If You Asked for a Picture
Wolf Alice - The Clearing
Rosalia - Lux
Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving
Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes
Galine - Alpha
Divorce - Drive to Goldenhammer
Geese - Getting Killed
Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend
Big Thief - Double Infinity


TRACKS

Wolf Alice - Thorns
Hangman - Divorce
Teddybears feat. Iggy Pop - Punkocker
Galine - The Alphabet
Geese - Taxes
Michael Kiwanuka - Rebel Soul
Blondshell - Model Rockets
Mon Rovia - Dust 
Gloomjoy, CASTLEBEAT - Errors
Jasmim - Aqui Nao Falta Nada

Feel free to check which of the other great tracks didn't make the cut: