The Top Five Movies of 2025

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan and Adam Nayman to share their five favorite films from the year. But before diving in, they cover a handful of movie news items, including the updated rumors regarding the potential sale of Warner Bros. (1:25), the massive box office success of ‘Zootopia 2’ (5:44), and the speculation that Leonardo DiCaprio has been cast in Michael Mann’s ‘Heat 2’ (11:15). Then, they each share their top five favorite movies from 2025 (25:20). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan and Adam Nayman Producer: Jack Sanders Shopping. Streaming. Celebrating. It’s on Prime. A State Farm agent can help you choose the coverage you need. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fennacy.
0:15.8	And this is the Big Picture a Conversation Show about the best movies of 2025.
0:20.4	Chris Ryan is here. Adam Neyman will join us shortly to talk about the year in film and we will all share our top five favorite movies of the year. But first, so much news has been happening. We had Thanksgiving holiday and then we had a crazy avatar the way of water, watch-along podcast. We did speak of some news, very little
0:38.6	film news in that conversation. Yogurt news, weightlifting news, college football coaching
0:44.3	carousel. Yeah. As always, critically acclaimed conversation among the three of us. Thanks to everyone
0:48.8	who participated in that. Let's get into some real news in the world of Hollywood.
0:52.7	Imagine that was your first pod after reading the talk of the town piece.
0:57.4	I hadn't really thought about that.
0:58.9	Yeah, welcome to the big picture.
1:01.4	Whoops.
1:03.0	This episode of The Big Picture is presented by Amazon Prime.
1:06.3	You know how in every great holiday movie, there's that last minute scramble to make it all come together?
1:10.9	From gifts to hosting essentials, Prime's fast shipping is always there for you during the holidays,
1:15.3	especially when it's last minute and just can't wait. So if you need fast-free delivery that saves
1:19.8	the day, it's on Prime. Head to Amazon.com slash Prime to shop now.
1:25.6	Speaking of Hollywood, the latest breaking news in the WBD sale saga, Warner Brothers is
1:31.4	for sale.
1:32.1	They have accepted bids.
1:33.1	We talked about this on our sentimental value episode.
1:35.7	Kind of a bummer discussion.
1:37.0	I'm not sure if this discussion will get much better, but news this morning, lawyers for
1:40.2	Paramount Skydance sent a letter to Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zazlov,
	...

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