November 2025 was, ultimately, the month in which I realize I appreciated Richard Linklater’s more mannered, albeit exceptionally playful and fast-paced Nouvelle Vague than the movie it’s about, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. (Breathless suffers from the Beatles effect for me; I’m so familiar with the things it’s been ripped off for that the movie itself seems lesser as a result.) That said, I loved the Linklater movie, somewhat surprisingly; I generally don’t appreciate his work, but this one sang to me. Movie of the month for me, a title shared with the Demi Adejuyigbe comedy special.
Less successful: After the Hunt, which was genuinely insufferable, as was Kill Your Friends, a movie whose downfall was the very reason I watched it out of curiosity in the first place: “Someone made an American Psycho about Britpop set in the 1990s? That’ll be fun,” I thought, but I was wrong; it was, instead, American Psycho about Britpop set in the 1990s, in all the bad ways.
Anyway: here’s what I watched in November 2025.
