As is traditional, so much of my December 2025 viewing was holiday related, although I snuck in a couple of movies that people were talking about in “Best of the Year” terms, just because; of those, F1 felt like the ideal Dad Movie — leaning into every single cliche and relying on the allure of “cars go fast, broom broom” to win the audience over… and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t work; I was less won over by One Battle After Another, which felt too cartoonish and weightless to land with me, while Die My Love — a Christmas Day watch, inexplicably! — was harrowing and beautiful in all the right ways. What lies ahead for movies in 2026? Well, more of them, I’m sure… beyond that, I’m not even going to pretend to predict anything.
