It's been a tradition for at least a decade for former United States President Barack Obama to unveil the movies (along with books and music) that he loved in any given year. Well, he dropped the list yesterday, and there's some overlap with my own best movies of 2025, so I feel pretty vindicated. Let's unpack them below. — (@) Barack Obama's Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2025One Battle After Another (Dir/Wri: Paul Thomas Anderson; Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro)Sinners (Dir/Wri: Ryan Coogler; Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo)It Was Just An Accident (Dir/Wri: Jafar Panahi; Cast: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi)Hamnet (Dir: Chloé Zhao; Wri: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell; Cast: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal)Sentimental Value (Dir: Joachim Trier; Wri: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Cast: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning)No Other Choice (Dir: Park Chan-wook; Wri: Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar; Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin)The Secret Agent (Dir/Wri: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Cast: Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Udo Kier)Train Dreams (Dir: Clint Bentley; Wri: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; Cast: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones)Jay Kelly (Dir: Noah Baumbach; Wri: Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer; Cast: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern)Good Fortune (Dir/Wri: Aziz Ansari; Cast: Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves)I think this is a pretty diverse list of US and international features that covers the spectrum of genres. I wonder what it's like to watch a movie next to the president of the United States? Like, did he cry during Train...
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