Sol · year in review

2026

49 logs, 49 rated, averaging 4.0★. 22 films, 8 television, 6 books, 12 music, 1 game.

The year in five lines

Sol logged 49 titles and rated 49, averaging 4.0★; 6 got five stars.
The year in one title: Remembering Now (2025).
Kindest to Paddington 2, 1.3 above the crowd; hardest on The Wolf of Wall Street, 1.5 below.
September was the busiest month, with 15 logs.
Maker of the year: Kazuo Ishiguro, 2 titles.

Everything below is the long version.

Their year, in one title
Remembering Now 2025★★★★★
Our pick: the title that best explains everything else you loved.
The surprise
Titanic 1997★★★★½
Runs against their usual leans, and Sol loved it anyway.
Kindest call
Paddington 2 2017★★★★★
1.3 stars above the crowd.
Harshest call
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013★★½
1.5 stars below the crowd.

Maker of the year

2 titles this year.

Blind spot of the year

ironic

Nothing Sol loved this year went far toward ironic (sincerity vs. irony).

By the numbers

Month by month

September was the busiest month, with 15 logs.

Ratings

mean 4.00 · 0.2 stars harsher than the crowd

Genres

Decades

The oldest thing Sol logged was The Hobbit from 1937; the newest, Remembering Now from 2025. That is 88 years of range.
The longest sit was Titanic at 3 h 14 min, and it earned it.
The year opened with The Wolf of Wall Street (2.5★) and closed with Remembering Now (5★).
48 hours in films: 2 full days of the year.
Sol logged across 5 media this year. Omnivore territory.
7 returns to things already loved. Comfort is a taste too.