Best of 2025: All Staff Picks

• Sentimental Value
• Reflection in a Dead Diamond
• Sinners

• Rubbers Lover
• Possession
• Daughters of Darkness
• Freaked
• In My Skin
• Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
• Mermaid Legend
• The Films of Hisayasu Sato Vol. 1
• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

Best Box Art:

• House of Psychotic Women, Vol. 2: Nothing Is Sacred

Most Nostalgic Re-release:

• Freaked

Favorite First Watches of the Year:

• A Snake of June
• Exotica
• Ganja & Hess
• Angel Dust
• Cure
• Amateur
• Living Dead Girl
• A New Love in Tokyo
• Mermaid Legend

• Skate
• Fallout 3
• Mafia: The Old Country
• FragPunk
• Battlefield 6
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
• Pokémon Legends: Z-A
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Grandia

Best Box Art:

• Metaphor: ReFantazio

Most Overstuffed Limited Edition:

• Ghost of Yōtei Collector’s Edition

WOWZERS!

• Reflection in a Dead Diamond
• Sinners
• Sorry, Baby
• Together
• Weapons

• His Motorbike, Her Island
• The New Extremities Collection Vol. 1
• Twin Cheeks
• Tombstone 4K
• Mac and Me
• Rubbers Lover
• In My Skin

• Eddington
• 28 Years Later
• Companion

• The Witch
• Scanners
• Ran
• Possession
• Lifeforce
• Cure

Most Nostalgic Re-release

• Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another
• Warfare
• Train Dreams
• It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley

• Shawscope Vol.4
• Peacock King
• The Cat

Best Box Art:

Peacock King

Most Overstuffed Limited Edition:

Possession

Most Nostalgic Re-release:

TMNT

Most Surprising Title to Get Physical Media at All:

• Dogma

Most Overlooked Re-Released Film That Deserved More Attention:

• The Cat

Best Goopy Monster Designs:

• Peacock King

• Death Stranding 2
• Indika
• Still Wakes in the Deep

• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Mickey 17
• Weapons
• Train Dreams
• Wake Up Dead Man
• Black Bag
• The Phoenician Scheme
• Reflection in a Dead Diamond
• Nouvelle Vague

• The Cat
• City on Fire
• The Peacock King
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Dark City
• Peking Opera Blues
• Iron Angels Trilogy
• The Hungry Snake Woman
• His Motorbike, Her Island
• Daiai Gothic 2

• Witness
• Throw Down (2004)
• Last Stop in Yuma County
• Nosferatu the Vampire (1979)
• The Last of Sheila
• RoboDoc
• The Hungry Snake Woman
• Thrilling Bloody Sword
• Apostle (2018)
• Night of the Demon (1957)

• Sinners
• Weapons
• One Battle After Another

• His Motorbike, Her Island
• The Cat
• Possession

Best Box Art:

• Twin Cheeks

Most Overstuffed Limited Edition:

• Possession

Most Nostalgic Re-release:

• Angel’s Egg

Most Overlooked Re-Released Film That Deserved More Attention:

• The Island Closest to Heaven

• Rental Family
• Warfare
• Thunderbolts

• Ghost of Yōtei
• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
• Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
• Once Upon a Katamari
• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
• Split Fiction
• Earthion
• Gradius Origins
• Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut
• Assassin’s Creed: Shadows

• The Ugly Stepsister
• Sinners

• Freaked

• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Weapons
• Train Dreams
• Sentimental Value
• Black Bag
• Superman
• Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc
• Wake Up Dead Man
• Companion

• The Cat
• Shawscope, Vol. 4
• Dust Devil
• Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy
• Angel’s Egg
• The Dagger of Kamui
• Swimming to Cambodia
• Peacock King
• Black Sunday
• When Evil Lurks

Best Box Art:

The Cat

Most Overstuffed Limited Edition:

Curse of Frankenstein

Most Nostalgic Re-release

Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy

Most Surprising Title to Get Physical Media at All:

Sharks of the Corn

Most Overlooked Re-Released Film That Deserved More Attention:

The Big Blue

Most Editions of the Same Damn Movie:

Terrifier

Most Complained About Movie in the Store:

Nosferatu (1979) BFI 4K

Most Confusing Remake of the Year:

War of the Worlds as a Zoom Meeting

• Bring Her Back
• Weapons
• Sinners
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

• Ms. 45 4K
• Treasures of Soviet Animation, Vol. 2
• Tom & Jerry: The Golden Age Anthology
• Hard Boiled 4K
• Danger Diabolik 4K
• Aesop’s Fables: The 1920s, Vol. 1
• Sabrina 4K
• Black Sunday 4K
• School in the Crosshairs
• The Movie Orgy

Best Box Art:

• School in the Crosshairs

Most Overstuffed Limited Edition:

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 4K (Arrow Limited Edition)

Most Nostalgic Re-release:

• Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault, Vol. 1

Most Surprising Title to Get Physical Media at All:

• The Bloody Lady and Other Works by Viktor Kubal

Most Overlooked Re-Released Film That Deserved More Attention:

• Danger Diabolik 4K

Best Movies I Saw for the First Time in 2025:

• Sweet Charity (1969)
• The Doom Generation (1995)
• Ginger Snaps (2000)
• Double Indemnity (1944)

• Weapons
• Black Bag
• Bring Her Back
• Hallow Road
• Sisu: Road to Revenge
• The Naked Gun (2025)
• Final Destination: Bloodlines
• The Monkey

Adolescence

• Wake Up Dead Man

• Night of the Hunter 4K Steelbook (French Edition)
• Wake in Fright 4K (Umbrella)
  Night of the Juggler 4K (UK Transmission)
• Enemy Territory (Arrow)
• Jade 4K (Vinegar Syndrome)
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Complete Series (Imprint)
• Sunset Boulevard 4K Collector’s Edition (UK)
• Ricochet (Plaion)
• The Old Dark House 4K (Eureka)
• Speak No Evil (2022, Arrow)

Best Box Art:

• Night of the Hunter 4K Steelbook (French Edition)

Most Overstuffed Limited Edition:

• Wake in Fright Umbrella Limited Collector’s Edition

Most Nostalgic Re-release:

• The Chronicles of Narnia (1988–1991)

Most Overlooked Re-Released Film That Deserved More Attention:

• Enemy Territory

• Stardew Valley
• Silent Hill 2 Remake
• Bully
• Persona 3 Portable
• Resident Evil 2 Remake
• Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
• Silent Hill f
• Devil May Cry
• ENA: Dream BBQ
• Portal 2

• Paul
• The Adult Version of Jekyll & Hyde/The Erotic Adventures of Zorro
• Paul (again)
• Ace Ventura
• Satan Hates You

1. Babe: Pig in the City
2. Babe: Pig in the City
3. Babe: Pig in the City

• Reflection in a Dead Diamond
• The Toxic Avenger
• Sinners

• The Hungry Snake Woman
• The House with Laughing Windows
• Danza Macabra, Vol. 4
• Trick or Treat 4K
• Hardware 4K
• The Beyond 4K
• The Iron Rose 4K
• Black Sunday 4K
• The Cat
• Shawscope, Vol. 4

Best Box Art:

• Danza Macabra, Vol. 4

Most Nostalgic Re-release:

• Curse of Frankenstein

Most Surprising Title to Get Physical Media at All:

• Hard Boiled

Most Overlooked Re-Released Film That Deserved More Attention:

• The Hungry Snake Woman

Movie Most in Need of a Cool Special Edition:

• The Omega Man / Time After Time