Best and Worst Films from January 2025

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Best and Worst Films from January 2025

 

Best Films from January 2025:

 

3. Girls Will Be Girls

This month I saw numerous 2024 releases as is always the case during this time of the year and India dominates this month’s best section with two movies. The first is this incredibly nuanced drama about a complex mother-daughter relationship that explores complicated themes and issues through clever dialogue and very cinematic and subtle filmmaking. It’s a wonderfully performed, directed and made movie that ranks among the most underrated films of the year.

Girls Will Be Girls Movie Review

 

2. The Girl with the Needle

This Danish chiller is a horror period piece done right – the atmosphere is incredibly menacing and bleak, the black-and-white cinematography is gorgeous, and its score is aptly suspenseful. Beautifully acted and wonderfully directed, this truly disturbing, horrifying movie is not for the faint of heart, but for horror enthusiasts it’s an absolute gem. If there is any justice in the world, this minor masterpiece would be in contention to win the foreign Oscar much more than that overrated mess that is ‘Emilia Perez’.

The Girl with the Needle Movie Review

 

1. Meiyazhagan

And the best movie I saw all month has to be this Indian heartwarming flick. The central dynamic between the two main characters was the heart and soul of this story that truly gets cousin relationships and childhood nostalgia. It’s a wistful, deeply moving film that wholeheartedly earned its emotion, leading to that amazing ending that genuinely touched me. Meiyazhagan is not much seen in the West, but for everybody who gives it a chance, it will undoubtedly prove to be an utter delight.

Meiyazhagan Movie Review

 

Worst Films from January 2025:

 

3. Hannibal

Hannibal is a serviceable sequel that lacked the sophistication of the original, instead focusing more on repulsing audiences with its frequently grotesque imagery. Gone was the terrific central dynamic from the original in favor of more gruesomeness, separating the main two players way too much. It was an unnecessary sequel.

Hannibal Movie Review

 

2. I Saw the TV Glow

This is by far one of the most overrated movies of the year. It was effective visually speaking, but the character development is poor, the genre elements are not well explored at all, and the themes that are relegated to it are actually entirely absent from this text as the film is too cowardly and lazy in its extreme ambiguity and vapid insignificance.

I Saw the TV Glow Movie Review

 

1. Armand

And the worst movie I saw all month has to be this Norwegian mess. Armand is one of those movies that become worse and worse as they go along. The premise was strong, but the execution was so poor. The second half is where the director suddenly wanted to do something original, but at the cost of coherence and appeal. The dance sequences were terrible and so unnecessary and the movie was frustratingly structured and needlessly odd.

Armand Movie Review

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