The Best Films Of 2025!!!

 We Now Arrive At the cream of the crop!!!

The Best Films Of 2025!!!

But First Some Honorable Mentions:

Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain, The Friend, Anniversary, Pavements, Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond In The Desert, Presence, Are We Good?, Sovereign, The Lost Bus, Hard Truths, Bring Her Back, Seven Veils, Bring Them Down, The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Ne Zha 2, One To One: John And Yoko, KPop Demon Hunters, Final Destination Bloodlines, Freaky Tales, Merrily We Roll Along, Roofman, Together, The Phoenician Scheme, Magazine Dreams, Superman, Come See Me In The Good Light, The Surfer, The Last Showgirl, East Of Wall, Is This Thing On?, Predator: Killer Of Killers, The Monkey, Lost In Starlight, One Of Them Days, Oh, Hi!, The Running Man

Let’s Begin!!!

Special Grand (Grant) Jury Prize: 

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

“We have unfinished business” 

60. The Naked Gun

Seriously that snow man gag though!!!

59. Mickey 17 

Seriously Robert Pattinson can do anything even play off himself

58. Black Bag

Steven Soderbergh really is great at this whole filmmaking thing

57. Warfare

Finally a war movie that isn’t either a cliche or a video game!!!

56. She Rides Shotgun

Seriously why did no one see this film!!!

55. Cover-Up

A truly valuable rally cry for the need for journalism!!!

54. Nuremberg

The best example of a movie that would kick ass in high school history class!!!

53. Companion

Can Sophie Thatcher just be in every movie!!!

52. Friendship 

Tim Robinson is a demented genius and this film is 97 minutes of proof!!!

51. Eddington

A brilliantly bleak and brutally funny time capsule that time will be very kind to indeed!!!

50. 28 Years Later

Perhaps the best legacy sequel ever made!!!

49. Lurker

A cutting takedown of parasocial relationships with celebrity in the age of social media!!!

48. Boys Go To Jupiter

What a strange, wonderful film this was!!!

47. Grand Theft Hamlet

To Game Or Not To Game, That Is The Question!!!

46. John Candy: I Like Me

And We All Loved You John!!!

45. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

A deeply misunderstood fresh take on the musical biopic!!!

44. Materialists

Whoever chose to market this thoughtful indie romance like a damn Disney Channel movie needs to be sacked!!!

43. The Long Walk

Stephen King had a great year when it came to adapting his work!!!

42. The Ballad Of Wallis Island 

The cinematic equivalent of a warm hug and a soft blanket and that’s a compliment!!!

41. The Ugly Stepsister 

The most messed up take on Cinderella since the original Carrie!!!

40. Jay Kelly

How did Adam Sandler not get a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this!!!

39. Highest 2 Lowest

A deeply under appreciated joint from the great Spike Lee!!!

38. Father Mother Sister Brother 

A dry but subtle poignant trilogy of short stories from the great Jim Jarmusch!!!

37. Twinless

Dylan O’Brien gives a career best performance in James Sweeney’s gleefully unpredictable psychological black comedy!!!

36. Dead To Rights

A truly harrowing and unforgettable Chinese historical drama!!!

35. The Girlfriend

Rashmika Mandanna shines in this sadly under seen Indian drama chronicling a college student caught in an abusive relationship with a fellow student!!!

34. Hallow Road

Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys go through every parents nightmare in Babak Anvari’s brilliant locked car psychological thriller!!!

33. Nouvelle Vague

A delightful movie about the movies from Richard Linklater!!!

32. Blue Moon

Ethan Hawke is terrific in this dramedy about the final days of music icon Lorenz Hart from Richard Linklater (yup him again)!!!

31. The Baltimorons 

Director Jay Duplass delivers the best Christmas film since The Holdovers with this may december romance set during a long Christmas Eve in Baltimore!!!

30. Train Dreams

A lyrical and poetic drama with an excellent performance from Joel Edgerton!!!

29. Good Boy

The best canine performance since The Artist highlights this experimental horror drama about a good dog trying to save his sick owner from a supernatural force!!!

28. Left-Handed Girl

Sean Baker Co-Writes and edits this moving and well observed Taiwanese drama about a mother and her two daughters struggling to get by in Taipei!!!

27. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

The third and best in Rian Johnson’s truly excellent series of Agatha Christie style murder mysteries!!!

26. Predators

A truly incredible documentary about the Reality TV-ization of child exploitation, abuse and the impact it has on the victims!!!

25. The Alabama Solution 

A truly disturbing and unforgettable examination of the broken Alabama prison system from the director of The Jinx!!!

24. Weapons

Zach Cregger delivers a modern horror masterpiece in this delightfully warped supernatural hyperlink mystery!!!

23. A House Of Dynamite

Kathryn Bigelow returns to film for the first time in nearly a decade for this nightmarishly plausible nuclear war thriller!!!

22. The Perfect Neighbor

A suburban tragedy is captured in real time in Geeta Gandbhir’s truly dynamic and heartbreaking documentary!!!

21. Deaf President Now!

A group of students who can’t hear refused to be silenced and changed everything in this inspiring and moving documentary!!!

20. Bugonia 

Jessie Plemons and Emma Stone are locked in a battle of wits of intergalactic proportions in Yorgos Lanthimos’ bizarre and profound satire!!!

19. Hamnet

Easily the best Shakespeare film of 2025!!!

18. The Housemaid

The second best Amanda Seyfried movie of 2025 and the best Sydney Sweeney movie yet!!!

17. Wicked: For Good

An excellent conclusion to Jon M. Chu’s epic adaptation of the broadway smash!!!

16. The Secret Agent

Wagner Moura is excellent in this loving homage to 70s cinema from Brazil!!!

15. The Voice Of Hind Rajab 

A powerful and thematically and morally challenging hybrid of dramatization and real audio about the final hours in the life of a young Palestinian girl and the frustrated relief workers desperate to come to her rescue!!!

14. It Was Just An Accident

A powerful and important political thriller from the great Jafar Panahi!!!

13. A Little Prayer

A thoughtful and quietly moving southern fried family dramedy with excellent performances from David Strathairn and Jane Levy!!!

12. Die My Love

Jennifer Lawrence gives a career best performance in Lynne Ramsay’s haunting study of the dark side of motherhood!!!

11. The Plague

Charlie Polinger makes a stunning directorial debut in this chilling and bleak examination of male adolescent cruelty!!!

10. The Testament Of Ann Lee

The Best Amanda Seyfried movie of 2025!!!

9. No Other Choice

A brilliant and biting satire of the modern workforce from the great Korean filmmaker Park Chan-Wook!!!

8. Frankenstein 

Guillermo Del Toro brings Mary Shelley’s classic story of an arrogant mad scientist and his monster to brilliant life in this staggering gothic epic!!!

7. Sinners

Ryan Coogler creates a modern american masterpiece with this Jim Crow era drama, horror, musical epic!!!

6. I’m Still Here

Fernanda Torres gives a staggering performance in this quietly profound Brazilian biographical drama!!!

5. The Life Of Chuck

Horror master Mike Flanagan takes a break from the genre for this profound and life affirming adaptation of Stephen King’s reverse chronological short story!!!

4. Marty Supreme 

Timothee Chalamet gives a career best performance in Josh Safdie’s epic about an arrogant table tennis champ whose journey to an overseas tournament becomes a series of unfortunate events!!!

3. One Battle After Another 

Paul Thomas Anderson delivers what may be his best film in this epic political black comedy thriller!!!

2. Sorry, Baby 

Eva Victor makes a stunning debut both in front of and behind the camera in this moving and surprisingly funny film about a woman attempting to put her life back together after a horrible thing happens to her!!!

1. Sentimental Value

Joachim Trier’s study of two sisters trying to live in the shadow of there emotionally distant filmmaker father is not only the best film of the year, it’s one of the best films i have ever seen!!!

What a great year it’s been!!!

See you in 2026!!!