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2025 Movies

A.V. Club: 25 Best Films of 2025

17 December 2025

The A.V. Club: 25 Best Films of 2025

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  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
  3. Weapons
    Zach Cregger
  4. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
  5. Sorry, Baby
    Eva Victor
  6. The Secret Agent
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  7. 28 Years Later
    Danny Boyle
  8. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt
  9. The Perfect Neighbor
    Geeta Gandbhir
  10. Train Dreams
    Clint Bentley
  11. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  12. Eephus
    Carson Lund
  13. The Testament of Ann Lee
    Mona Fastvold
  14. Resurrection
    Bi Gan
  15. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
    Julia Loktev
  16. Friendship
    Andrew DeYoung
  17. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
  18. Peter Hujar's Day
    Ira Sachs
  19. April
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
  20. The Phoenician Scheme
    Wes Anderson
  21. The Naked Gun
    Akiva Schaffer
  22. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  23. Black Bag
    Steven Soderbergh
  24. Presence
    Steven Soderbergh
  25. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie

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