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Congrats on weathering Spring Break! Hopefully you got a few movies (or seasons of TV shows) scratched off your Watchlist. If you’re looking for a new one, you can always check the Recommendation Corner midway through this, and every, newsletter.
We want to give a little post Awards season shoutout to the wonderful “best movies of the year” videos produced by film critic (and editor virtuoso) David Ehrlich. It’s self explanatory once you start watching, but when we say these countdowns are head-shakingly impressive, we’re underselling it. Here are Ehrlich’s best 25 movies of 2025.
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Alrighty. Let’s talk numbers:
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage95.1%  Shrek (2001) | Lowest Win Percentage50.7%  A History of Violence (2005) |
SHREK did what Shrek was expected to do, which is crush. Despite the numerous sequels, we went with Classic Coke Shrek and couldn’t fool many of you. Shrek almost locked up the Ace rate too this week but fell to the gang over in Gotham.
Despite there being a lot of violence in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, summoning the title of the Cronenberg - Mortensen collaboration proved as hard as it was to kill his character. This was the first of four (and counting?) works that these guys have done together, and like with anything Cronenberg if you ain’t too squeamish it’s worth a watch. But yes, it’s VIOLENT.
THE KING’S SPEECH fared quite admirably this week. Perhaps that’ll be enough to get Tom Hooper out of “Director Jail” where he sits since doing Cats.
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE had a bunch of Star Trek references throughout the five quotes, but discerning Vulkan ears zeroes in not only on it being the original cast (“GTFO of here Next Gen! Wait your turn!”) but that we went with the first one. Please start normalizing the trend of subtitling your movie with :THE MOTION PICTURE. We really liked that.
GARDEN STATE got across the finish line with a little help from the Shins, just like the movie itself did back in 2004. Zach Braff’s vocal fry and mumbly philosophizin’ may not have held up as well as you think. But hey look… Jean Smart! She’s in this!
REALITY BITES… the Garden State of the 90s! (said no one ever).
 Reese (Joshua Harto) tries to use some cool Batmobile blueprints for leverage in | Ace of the Week24.1%“You wanted me to do the diligence on the LSI Holdings deal again? Well, I found some irregularities.” |
You might say this man was the bravest guy in Gotham, after all, he tried to blackmail Batman in THE DARK KNIGHT. It’s possible that if Hans Zimmer kept his evocative score to himself for one or two scenes, this would have been a more difficult quote to Ace. You CineQuoters out there used those bat-ears to pinpoint EXACTLY which installment we were doing of the Nolan trilogy.
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
Shrek (2001) | 95.1% | 18.2% |
The Dark Knight (2008) | 92.9% | 24.1% |
The King's Speech (2010) | 87.4% | 1.7% |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) | 82.4% | 6.9% |
Garden State (2004) | 63.3% | 9.1% |
Reality Bites (1994) | 51.8% | 6.3% |
A History of Violence (2005) | 50.7% | 4.1% |
CQ Recommends
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 With a Friend like Harry… (2000) | While fixing up their summer cottage, Michel and his family run into a man who claims to have gone to high school with Michel. When it comes to French psychological thrillers, you have plenty good ones to choose from out there. Spare a couple hours for Dominik Moll’s creepy look at one hell of a toxic male friendship. -Sean |
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