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Song of the Day #6,452: ‘Courtyard’ – Bobbie Gentry

Continuing my countdown of last year’s best films…

Best Films of 2025
#6. Eddington

Writer/director Ari Aster’s Eddington is the first film to tackle the insanity of America in 2020 — that discombobulating period when anti-COVID measures collided with the post-George Floyd social justice movement. The movie interrogates both sides of a country divided right down the middle and does so with humor, smarts, and a healthy dose of cynicism.

Some liberals disliked the film because it pokes fun at young social justice warriors and those who were overly cautious about COVID. But to the extent that Eddington takes sides, I see the more biting satire aimed at the right. This is a movie in which a planeload of heavily armed ANTIFA crisis actors descend on the town like something out of a Fox News fever dream.

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Song of the Day #6,430: ‘Firework’ – Katy Perry

Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…

Today’s clip was an easy choice for this series, another one of those moments that I mentally pencilled in as soon as I saw it in the theater.

The scene comes about halfway through Ari Aster’s Eddington, a bracing and darkly funny portrait of America during Covid. This was one of last year’s best films, and one I think hit too close to home for a lot of people and ended up outside of the awards conversation as a result.

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