Here we are at the end of another year of movies and films. Tinsel & Tine turned Sweet 16 January 1st! Thankful to still have the opportunity to see and talk about films and be a part of another awards season. Kinda hoping I can make it to 25 years, then I’ll most-likely retire and just see movies entirely for fun.  Since starting Letterboxd a couple of years ago, making it so much easier to keep track of each film I see during the year – I begun aiming to see 150 movies/films released in that given year.  The first year I surpassed it with 179. Other years I’ve made my goal or gotten very close.  This year I was 15 films away… and I know why… 

1) My car of 20 years gave up the ghost and I’m not prepared yet to purchase a new vehicle.  This meant when a screening was in King of Prussia or Neshaminy, I often couldn’t get there.  

2) But mostly, it was because over the Memorial Holiday weekend, I decided to listen (audible) to a Romantasy novel. I started with The Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty about the magical world of the Djinn.  Then moved into the books everyone (on Reddit) was talking about – the The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros, featuring dragons and their riders at a magical war college. Then I was told the granddaddy of them all was the Sarah J Maas Universe of books: Throne of Glass (TOG), A Court of Thorns And Roses (ACOTAR) and Crescent City (CC) 15 books total and then so on and so on. I’m still in the throes of this new found passion, which didn’t leave time for me to watch as many movies as I typically would; and that’s how I only saw 135 for 2025.

See Below Top 10 for Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Winners (Video) and
End of the Year Film Scribes Podcast

MY TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2025

#1 BEST MOVIE: SINNERS Director Ryan Coogler

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#10 BLUE MOON Director Richard Linklater

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#9 KISS OF A SPIDER WOMAN Director Bill Condon

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#8 IS THIS THING ON Director Bradley Cooper

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#7 FRANKENSTEIN Director Guillermo del Toro

#6 THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND Director James Griffiths

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#5 NO OTHER CHOICE Director Park Chan-wook

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#4 IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Director Jafar Panahi

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#3 ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Director Paul Thomas Anderson

See Below – This Won Best Feature with The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle

#2 WICKED: FOR GOOD Director Jon M. Chu

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MY WORST 10 MOVIES OF 2025

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10. ELLA MCCAY Director James L. Brooks

9. YOU’RE CORDIALLY INVITED Director Nicholas Stoller

8. MINECRAFT MOVIE Director Jared Hess

7. DROWNING DRY Director Laurynas Bareiša

6. THE LEGEND OF OCHI Director Isaiah Saxon

5. LAST BREATH Director Alex Parkinson

4. LOVE HURTS Director Jonathan Eusebio

3. THE WEDDING BANQUET Director Andrew Ahn

2. WOLF MAN Director Leigh Whannell

1. SEEDS Director Brittany Shyne

WHERE OTHER MOVIES FELL BETWEEN 1 AND 135

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AWARD WINNERS Voted on by the Members of PFCC

Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards Ceremony

TINSEL & TINE PAST YEARS BEST & WORST LISTS:

2024 Best & Worst List

2023 Best & Worst List | 2022 Best & Worst List | 2021 Best & Worst List

2020 Best & Worst List | 2019 Best & Worst List | 2018 Best and Worst List |
2017 Best & Worst List | 2016 Best & Worst List | 2014 Best & Worst