Ones from the Heart


A solid-enough year for cinema (and music); an annus horribilis in nearly every other respect, with little cause to expect that 2025 will be less awful. Yet the three films I have tied at first place offer –– in different ways, to varying degrees –– some modest impetus for hope. The two documentaries I have tied at fourth are sobering, devastating reminders of hope's realistic limits. 

FILMS
01a. A Real Pain (Eisenberg) 
01b. One Life (Hawes) 
01c. Anora (Baker)
04a. The Sixth (Nix/Fine)
04b. We Will Dance Again (Mozer) 
06. Hit Man (Linklater)
08. Conclave (Berger)
09. Fly Me to the Moon (Berlanti)
10. In a Violent Nature (Nash) 
11. Nosferatu (Eggers) 
12. Challengers (Guadagnino) 
13. Stopmotion (Morgan) 
14. Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Park)
15. My Old Ass (Park) 
16. I Used to Be Funny (Pankiw)
17. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Burton)
18. All You Need Is Death (Duane) 
19. The Apprentice (Abbasi)
20. Unfrosted (Seinfeld) 


PERFORMANCES
01. Anthony Hopkins, One Life 
02. Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain 
03. Mikey Madison, Anora 
04. Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice 
05. Hugh Grant, Heretic 
06. Ralph Fiennes, Conclave 
07. Rachel Sennott, I Used to Be Funny 
08. Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain 
09. Ariana Grande, Wicked 
10. Adria Arjorna, Hit Man 
11. Zendaya, Challengers 
12. Yura Borisov, Anora 
13. Channing Tatum, Blink Twice 
14. Channing Tatum, Fly Me to the Moon 
15. Gillian Anderson, Scoop 
16. Maria Bakalova, The Apprentice 
17. Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice 
18. Glen Powell, Hit Man 
19. Emma Stone, Kinds of Kindness 
20. Jim Carrey, Sonic the Hedgehog 3
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