The problem is how/where to see them. Theaters are slowly becoming a social/economic structure of the past. (And it seems I missed about half of the movies in the 1973 list
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https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-movies-2025-1235440226/sorry-baby-3-1235440346/
But if you like theaters....this person really kept notes.
I've only seen a handful of these. I'm not sure I agree with the scores, but holy smokes.
I saw 290 movies in theaters in 2025. Here is my full ranking.
Every year, I go to the movie theater as much as possible. It's my favorite place in the world. I first started keeping track/scores/reviews/ticket stubs in 2015. Since then, I've seen 1,827 different movies in theaters: 5 in 2015, 9 in 2016, 146 in 2017, 162 in 2018, 192 in 2019, 44 in 2020, 86 in 2021, 270 in 2022, 325 in 2023, 298 in 2024, and 290 this year.
For this ranking, I'm only counting movies I saw in theaters, nothing that I watched at home. I'm not counting re-watches. I don't have a specific scoring system, it's just a rating I give to the movie right after watching. I've included a few re-releases, short films, and TV series, as long as they were seen in a theater (and for the first time). This is all just for fun and not meant to be taken super seriously, I'm not a professional movie critic. I just like going to the movies.
I attended 9 film festivals in 2025 for a total of 124 movies. 97 movies had cast and/or crew in attendance for Q&As. There were 26 World Premieres, 11 North American Premieres, 11 Canadian Premieres, 11 East Coast Premieres, 17 Southeast Premieres, 20 Florida/Georgia/Orlando/US/Tampa/South Florida/International Premieres:
....https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1pwx3x6/i_saw_290_movies_in_theaters_in_2025_here_is_my/