While Quentin Tarantino distributes insults galore, another director with an equally sharp tongue exercises another of his specialties. We are talking about John Waters, who has released a new annual top as irreverent and unorthodox as the one we are used to.
Virtually exiled from Hollywood, the director of Flamingos And Crying dedicates its 2025 list (via The Film Stage) to films as seemingly disparate as the Spanish one Sirat (Olivier Laxe), the new episode of final destination and the new challenge of Ari Aster to the spectators. All complemented by sharp and hilarious comments.
The best of 2025 according to John Waters
In the Waters review, the place of honor is occupied by Edington, Ari Aster’s satire with Pierre Pascal And Joaquin Phoenix. “An unpleasant story, but very entertaining, as exhausting as current politics and with characters that no one likes,” he explains. And adds: “If you don’t like this movie, I hate you.”
Secondly, Final destination: blood ties East “the best sequel to the best film franchise in the world.” According to Waters, “this film goes beyond garbage can enter a new field of art “exploitation”. Or, in other words, that the filmmaker fell in love with its apotheosis of gore and dark humor.
To talk about it Sirat, fourth, John Waters brings in the heavy artillery: “Get out of the way, Mad Max, wake up, The wages of fear”, he exclaims, before getting into trouble: “Accumulating tragedies with indescribable intensity, this scenario becomes the best bad acid trip adventure ever filmed. “It will blow your mind.”
The rest of those chosen by Waters fall between gay-themed films (like Mercy, of Alain Giraudie, And When autumn falls, of François Ozon), a documentary about the actress Jayne Mansfield and unexpected jobs like The Empire, of Bruno Dumont, which closes the list. “I didn’t realize it was supposed to be funny until I read the press notes after seeing it,” says the director, as viper as ever.
Below, John Waters’ top 10 for 2025:
- “Eddington” (Ari Aster)
- “Final Destination: Blood Ties” (Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein)
- “The Oslo Trilogy” (Day Johan Haugerud)
- “Sirat” (Olivier Laxe)
- “Sauna” (Mathias Broe)
- “Room Temperature” (Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley)
- ‘Mercy’ (Alain Giraudie)
- “When autumn falls” (François Ozon)
- “My Mother Jayne” (Mariska Hargitay)
- “The Empire” (Bruno Dumont)
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