Great Cinematic Works First Watched in 2025

This is a running list of the cinematic works that I watched for the first time in 2025 that I feel deserve 4 Stars (my highest film-rating distinction). The titles below are listed in the order that I saw them and grouped together by the month in which they were watched.

January:

• The Cat Concerto (1947) (short)

• The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)

April:

• Elmer Gantry (1960)

• Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

June:

• Another Hayride (2021) (short)

• Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (2023)

• Everybody's Watching (2024) (short)

• A Sammy in Siberia (1919) (short)

• Free Solo (2018)

• Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius) (2025)

August:

• Bayard & Me (2017) (short)

• Hummingbirds (2023)

November:

• Supermarket Woman (1996)

• Seven Chances (1925)

• Hard Boiled (1992)

• The Killer (1989)