"Ferocious, fractured, & filled with so many scary, twisted surprises—this picture goes beyond trash into a new realm of exploitation art." This is what he has to say about the most recent Final Destination movie making his Top 10. One of the most exciting "best of the year" lists that kicks off this time of the year is from filmmaker John Waters - his Top 10 favorite films in a list that is unlike any other. For 2025, Waters has put together an appropriately eccentric, entirely peculiar and decidedly unique list of his favorites from the last 12 months. His list last year had The Brutalist, Joker 2, Emilia Perez, and Babygirl on it, which caused quite a stir. This time around he's got a bit of everything - a horror movie, a social commentary satire, the brilliant Sirat set in Morocco, a documentary, and a bunch of foreign films that impressed him, including the Oslo Trilogy which pretty much no one in the US has seen. After years of publishing this list elsewhere, Waters is now submitting it every year to Vulture instead. Peruse his 10 cinema favorites from 2025 below. // Continue Reading ›