I’m back with some more Letterboxd reviews! This summer had superhero blockbusters, gasp-inducing horrors, the funniest movie in nearly a decade and much more. I also revisited some of my favorite movies from months and years past. Here are the mini-reviews I wrote that I’m most proud of over the Summer of 2025 (give or take a few days).
Clown in a Cornfield
Too much clown, not enough cornfield. – 3 stars
The Beekeeper
The Beekeeper is the pinnacle of Jason Statham dad movies. Knows exactly what it is, hits every note it needs to just right. – 3 1/2 stars
Bring Her Back
Bring Her Back is one of the very few horror movies that’s so good I probably won’t revisit it very often. There’s some brilliantly mean, genuinely haunting stuff here. – 4 stars
Sicario
Simultaneously gorgeous and gruesome, unbelievably intense, bleak as fuck and the cast is nothing less than spectacular. This and Blade Runner 2049 are my favorite Villeneuve films by a pretty significant margin – 5 stars
The Surfer
My 50th Nicolas Cage movie! No, you have a problem. – 2 stars
The Nice Guys
If I ever put together a list of my favorite lines/line deliveries in a film, a solid chunk of them would probably be from just this movie. – 5 stars
Pluto
I was not expecting this to make me tear up multiple times. Bravo. – 4 stars
Together
I got a piece of popcorn stuck in my teeth like 30 seconds into this, so I was basically going through the same thing. – 3 stars
Interstellar
A visually stunning, awe-inspiring epic with a deeply human core. Stuff like this is why I love movies. – 4 1/2 stars
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Feels like a blend of vibes from the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies and a group of friends talking shit while playing D&D. Love it! – 4 stars
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
It’s 2005 and I’m watching a new Fantastic 4 movie. It’s terrible.
It’s 2007 and I’m watching a new Fantastic 4 movie. It’s terrible.
It’s 2015 and I’m watching a new Fantastic 4 movie. It’s terrible.
It’s 2025 and I’m watching a new Fantastic 4 movie. It’s… Wait, what? – 4 stars
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003)
It’s tragic that this got booted from the main canon. Multiple best-in-franchise set pieces, terrific animation that hasn’t aged at all and style for days. Assajj Ventress and Durge are exceptionally cool villains too. – 4 1/2 stars
Megan 2.0
Terminator 2: Judgement Slay – 3 1/2 stars
True Lies
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold in True Lies are the stuff legends are made of. The late, great Bill Paxton is brilliantly slimy, Tia Carrere is a solid femme fatale, most of the jokes hit their mark and the action is some of Cameron’s best. Really wish we were getting more stuff like this instead of twenty years of Avatar. – 4 stars
Jurassic World Rebirth
How to make raptors scarier:
- Give them wings
- Use them in enclosed spaces like cars, a convenience store or sewers instead of the climbing scene.
- Nevermind, that’s terrible idea – 2 stars
AvP: Alien vs. Predator
If I had a nickel for every time Paul W.S. Anderson put Colin Salmon in a trap and cut him into cubes I’d have two nickels, which isn’t much but it’s weird that it happened twice. – 3 1/2 stars
Weapons
Probably wasn’t a good idea to watch this only days before returning to my teaching job. – 4 stars
The Naked Gun (2025)
That reminds me, I need to get a new inhaler for my asthma. – 5 stars
And those were my Letterboxd review highlights of Summer 2025! If you liked what you read you can follow me on Letterboxd, Twitter, Bluesky, or keep coming backing here! Until next time, remember: the best sets are in the Middle of the Row!
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