{"id":168582,"date":"2025-12-04T23:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/168582\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:30:18","slug":"john-waters-top-10-films-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/168582\/","title":{"rendered":"John Waters’ Top 10 Films Of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs a new year of films prepare to hit the big screen, the Pope of Trash is looking back on 2025 with some of his favorite titles of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis week, John Waters<\/a> curated his list of top 10 movies from 2025, with Ari Aster<\/a>\u2018s A24<\/a> neo-Western thriller Eddington<\/a> topping the chart, which takes just a many unexpected and chaotic turns as the year itself. But what else should fans expect from the eccentric godfather of camp cinema?<\/p>\n

\n\tWith films like franchise horror Final Destination: Bloodlines and the French apocalyptic sci-fi The Empire in his rotation, the Polyester (1981) auteur provides several eclectic viewing options for loyal fans.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out John Waters\u2019 top 10 films of 2025 below, originally published by Vulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\t1. \u2018Eddington\u2019, dir. Ari Aster<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Joaquin
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: A24\/Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today\u2019s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for. Yet it\u2019s so terrifyingly funny, so confusingly chaste and kinky that you\u2019ll feel coo-coo crazy and oh-so-cultural after watching. If you don\u2019t like this film, I hate you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t2. \u2018Final Destination: Bloodlines\u2019, dir. Adam B. Stein, Zach Lipovsky<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Brec
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Warner Bros.\/Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe best sequel to the coolest cinematic franchise ever. Ferocious, fractured and filled with so many scary, twisted surprises\u2014this picture goes beyond trash into a new realm of exploitation art.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t3. Oslo Trilogy, dir. Dag Johan Haugerud<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Ella
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Strand Releasing\/Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThree terrific Norwegian films directed by the newest heir to Ingmar Bergman\u2019s throne concerning how complicated yet hopeful and similar all homo and hetero loves and lusts really are. The smartest dialogue about romance in a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t4. \u2018Sir\u0101t\u2019, dir. Oliver Laxe<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Oliver
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Match Factory \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMove over, Mad Max. Hurry up, The Wages of Fear. This jaw-droppingly exciting new cinematic road trip to a rave party in the deserts of war-torn Morocco makes those classics look like slowpokes. Tragedy after tragedy of unspeakable intensity make this script the best feel-bad acid adventure ever filmed. It\u2019ll blow your mind \u2026 [spoiler alert] literally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t5. \u2018Sauna\u2019, dir. Mathias Broe<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"'Sauna'\"
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: TrustNordisk\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLike a modern-day Andy Warhol\u2019s Trash, this sexy and well-acted first feature is about an affair between a hunky, hip gay male who works in a Copenhagen bathhouse cleaning out glory holes and a trans man who now identifies as gay. Cockeyed cunnilingus \u2014 a whole new frontier to consider?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t6. \u2018Room Temperature\u2019, dir. Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"'Room
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Leopard Films\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA purposely tedious and tender poetic head-scratcher of a film focusing on a family setting up their neighborhood home for a Halloween horror house. Just when you begin hating this film, you\u2019ll suddenly realize\u2014huh? I love it. It\u2019s weird, creepy, and maybe \u2026 just maybe, great.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t7. \u2018Misericordia\u2019, dir. Alain Guiraudie<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Misericordia\"
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Rosamont\/RAI Cinema\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAn impossibly perverse thriller where murder, closet incest, and the inappropriate attraction to one guilty man collide, leaving the audience stunned by sexual plot twists and a lulu of an ending. Yikes! This one\u2019s off the rails!\u201d<\/p>\n

\t8. \u2018When Fall Is Coming\u2019, dir. Fran\u00e7ois Ozon<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Helene
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Music Box Films\/Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA touching (and when have you ever heard me use that word?), nonjudgmental drama about a retired whore and her kind but rage-filled, down-low gay grown son, who gets out of prison and teaches her that maybe murder is the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t9. \u2018My Mom Jayne\u2019, dir. Mariska Hargitay<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"'My
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: HBO Films\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA top rate documentary that reveals secret after secret about Jayne Mansfield and her family that will push you to the edge of your seat and possibly make you cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t10. \u2018The Empire\u2019, dir. Bruno Dumont<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Lyna
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Kino Lorber\/Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not a fan of science-fiction, but when a brutalist spaceship lands in northern France in this film, I fell to my knees to worship the mutant deities onboard. I didn\u2019t realize this script was supposed to be funny until I read the press notes after viewing. It is. Sort of. Not funny ha-ha. Not funny peculiar. But funny ha-ha peculiar, just like the director.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a new year of films prepare to hit the big screen, the Pope of Trash is looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79576,146,100160,85,46,100161,1346,100162],"class_list":{"0":"post-168582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eddington","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-final-destination-bloodlines","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-john-waters","14":"tag-lists","15":"tag-oslo-trilogy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}