Nerdebate 538 - Os Melhores de 2025: Filmes e Séries
·1 hr 11 min·5 clips
Alan argues that 'Chainsaw Man: Hez's bow' shouldn't count as a film because it's just a compact season.
1. Nerdebate 538 is the 2025 year-end best films and series podcast, with Luiz Felipe hosting alongside Del (Julia) and Alan, described as the most prolific reviewers among the regular team.
2. Each host submitted an individual top-10 list; four films received multiple votes and formed the collective backbone, with each host choosing two additional films to round out the top 10.
3. The episode previews that a separate top animes of 2025 episode (recorded with a different team) will follow the following week, and that a dedicated Oscar review is also planned.
4. Luiz Felipe opens with 'Chainsaw Man: Hezu's Arc,' defending its inclusion as an anime film despite debate about whether adapted anime arcs qualify as films versus series, noting the story stands alone better than 'Demon Slayer' and functions as a solid entry point for Chainsaw Man newcomers.
5. Del presents 'A Irmã Feia' (available on MUBI) as a medieval body horror feminist retelling of Cinderella from the stepsister's perspective, comparing it favorably to 'The Substance' and describing escalating self-modification sequences driven by marriage as the only path to social advancement available to women at the time.
6. Alan nominates K-Pop Warriors, an animated film that competed at the Golden Globes and remains in Oscar contention, praising its cultural accessibility and standout songs while acknowledging it was not his personal favorite animation of the year.
7. Marvel's 'Thunderbolts' is praised as the best superhero film of the year by multiple hosts — described as a story of antiheroes whose 'great enemy is depression' — despite underperforming at the box office against Superman and Fantastic Four.
8. Del argues 'Uma Batalha Após a Outra' was sold as a comedy but functions more as a tense political satire, and that calling it a comedy 'takes away its message' — framing it as potentially dangerous in the current U.S. political climate because it encourages conformism.
9. 'Vivo ou Morto: Mistério' (Knives Out installment) is praised for Daniel Craig's nuanced detective performance — described as 'not just solving the mystery but how to solve it and what consequences solving it has for the other person's faith.'
10. 'A Longa Marcha,' the adaptation of Stephen King's novel about Vietnam-era compulsory walks where stopping means death, is described as a relentless film sustained by acting, dialogue, and plot despite a static visual approach — framed as a direct allegory for the Vietnam War's consumption of young lives.
11. 'O Agente Secreto,' the Brazilian Oscar entry directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, is described as still in cinema as of the recording date, with the director having announced via Twitter/X that it will eventually reach Netflix, following the success of the Golden Globe nomination in raising session counts at Brazilian cinemas.
12. 'Sinners' is called the year's greatest surprise by multiple hosts — Del takes credit for convincing Luiz to watch it — and is described as using supernatural horror as a vehicle for the actual horror of racism in the United States, with Michael B. Jordan playing twins as a directorial and acting feat.
13. The two Netflix producers who greenlit 'Sinners' were threatened with dismissal by their boss who called it a misguided bet — and these same two producers are also behind 'Uma Batalha Após a Outra,' creating a situation where both their bets are now major Oscar contenders.
14. Frankenstein is discussed extensively elsewhere in the podcast archive (Del identifies herself as the specialist), with this episode briefly praising Jacob Lloyd's supporting performance and noting that every actor in the film delivered notable work, with Del expressing strong admiration for Guillermo del Toro's creative commitment.
15. In the series segment, Alan praises the German series 'Cassandra' (an automated house hiding a woman's soul that victimizes an arriving family) while noting the ending was weaker than the buildup.
16. Alan also recommends 'Pablo e Luizão,' a Brazilian Netflix series based on stories by comedian Paulo Vieira about his father and a family friend — described as a series that surprised even skeptics of Brazilian streaming content.
17. Del recommends Netflix's 'O Monstro em Mim,' an eight-episode true-crime thriller where a writer befriends a billionaire neighbor accused but acquitted of killing his ex-wife; praised for gradually revealing its solution and engineering viewer uncertainty until episode 6.
18. Del also recommends 'A Casa da Guinness' (House of Guinness), a period drama from the makers of Peaky Blinders set in Ireland during the Industrial Revolution, covering labor law emergence, class shifts, and the founding of the Guinness beer family's empire — described as sharing Peaky Blinders' tonal footprint.
19. The episode is casual and conversational, with multiple tangents about the Oscar, social commentary on streaming regulation in Brazil, and running jokes about internal podcast predictions from prior episodes.
20. Listeners who follow contemporary cinema across multiple countries (Brazil, South Korea, U.S., UK, Germany), are interested in year-end criticism, or want animated film discussion beyond U.S. studios will find this episode substantive and wide-ranging.
