If all you knew about a movie was the person starring in it, who would be at the top of your list? These are our 2025 Actor Power Rankings, not a list of our all-time favorite silver screen stars, but instead, who has the title belt right now and who is at the peak of their powers.

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00:00 - Intro

06:04 - Josh O’Connor

08:26 - Tim Robinson

09:20 - Jason Schwartzman

10:48 - Florence Pugh

12:31 - Margaret Qualley

13:46 - Joaquin Phoenix

15:10 - Sebastian Stan

17:01 - Jennifer Lawrence

18:33 - Adam Driver

20:11 - Oscar Isaac

23:34 - Emma Stone

26:05 - Timothee Chalamet

28:58 - Ryan Gosling

34:02 - Bradley Cooper

39:15 - Denzel Washington

41:10 - Robert Pattinson

43:28 - Willem Dafoe

46:25 - Margot Robbie

49:24 - Kristen Stewart

53:07 - Jake Gyllenhaal

57:49 - Honorable Mentions

1:04:48 - Colin Farrell

1:06:40 - Florence Pugh

1:07:29 - Daniel Kaluuya

1:10:22 - Rachel Sennott

1:15:20 - Leonardo Dicaprio

1:24:45 - Anya Taylor-Joy

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Nic Cage has evolved from dark and mysterious bad boy to action movie hero to straight-to-DVD headliner to hardworking thespian, all while staying true to his Kabuki theater-style theatrics on screen. With a career full of iconic performances and even more iconic freakouts, we're flipping the Declaration of Cagependence to figure out the best Nicolas Cage movie.

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TIMECODES...

00:00 - Intro

10:55 - Round 1 - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse vs. The Weather Man

12:55 - Ghost Rider vs. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

13:35 - Renfield vs. Leaving Las Vegas

14:11 - Mandy vs. Vampire’s Kiss

14:44 - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent vs. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

16:10 - Bringing out the Dead vs. National Treasure

17:16 - Moonstruck vs. Lord of War

18:42 - The Wicker Man vs. Dream Scenario

19:17 - Kick-Ass vs. The Surfer

21:05 - Con Air vs. Face/Off

22:43 - The Rock vs. Wild At Heart

24:11 - Matchstick Men vs. Adaptation

25:52 - Pig vs. Gone in 60 Seconds

26:25 - Raising Arizona vs. Willy’s Wonderland

27:13 - The Croods vs. Color out of Space

28:18 - Longlegs vs. Next

29:22 - Round 2

37:24 - Round 3

42:26 - Round 4

44:48 - Final Round

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A decade removed from an incredible movie year, we’re looking back to our lives a decade ago and counting down our Top 10 Favorite Films of 2015 to celebrate their 10-year anniversaries.

TIMECODES...

00:00 - Intro

08:38 - Sicario

11:28 - It Follows

16:10 - Straight Outta Compton

18:47 - The Duke of Burgundy

21:03 - Brooklyn

22:27 - Son of Saul

24:59 - The Stanford Prison Experiment

26:23 - What We Do in the Shadows

29:05 - Ex Machina

35:07 - Anomalisa

38:21 - Mad Max: Fury Road

42:58 - Tangerine

45:27 - Phoenix

48:11 - The Lobster

49:45 - Honorable Mentions

1:08:34 - Creed

1:12:43 - The Big Short

1:15:16 - Steve Jobs

1:20:55 - Reminiscing about 2015

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Tom Cruise has been synonymous with the movies for 5 decades. In the 2020s, he’s one of the last movie stars standing. Now, Art & Zach sort through a filmography full of iconic films to pick Cruise’s career best.

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TIMECODES...

00:00 - Who is Tom Cruise

10:26 - What got cut

13:33 - Top Gun: Maverick vs. Days of Thunder

14:59 - Mission: Impossible 2 vs. Mission: Impossible 3

17:20 - Tropic Thunder vs. Oblivion

19:13 - Mission: Impossible vs. Jack Reacher

21:13 - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning vs. The Mummy

22:30 - A Few Good Men vs. Rain Man

26:02 - Collateral vs. War of the Worlds

31:37 - Knight and Day vs. Magnolia

32:54 - Top Gun vs. The Firm

35:10 - Vanilla Sky vs. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

37:49 - Minority Report vs. Jerry Maguire

41:40 - Risky Business vs. Edge of Tomorrow

43:50 - Mission: Impossible - Fallout vs. The Color of Money

48:29 - The Last Samurai vs. Interview with the Vampire

50:43 - Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol vs. The Outsiders

55:23 - Born on the Fourth of July vs. Eyes Wide Shut

57:42 - Round 2

1:10:41 - Round 3

1:18:53 - Final Four

1:24:46 - Final Matchup

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On the April edition of Monthly Must-Watch, we sink our teeth into Sinners, get entrenched in Warfare, and react to The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 2 before wrapping up the rest of the month.

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TIMECODES...

00:00 - Intro

10:23 - Sinners

49:16 - Warfare

1:11:04 - The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 2

1:27:40 - April Roundup Rapid Fire (A Minecraft Movie, A Nice Indian Boy, The Amateur, The Accountant 2, Drop, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Until Dawn, You Season 5, Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, The Rehearsal)

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