Year-End Lists
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of notable year-end lists.
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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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2025 Movies
For the Win: Cory Woodroof: The 15 Best Films of 2025
28 January 2026
Cory Woodroof
:
The 15 Best Films of 2025
, as published by
USA Today
’s
For the Win
[see also
2024
]
Sinners
Ryan Coogler
One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson
Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie
28 Years Later
Danny Boyle
Weapons
Zach Cregger
The Phoenician Scheme
Wes Anderson
Jay Kelly
Noah Baumbach
Wake Up Dead Man
Rian Johnson
Lurker
Alex Russell
Eddington
Ari Aster
Blue Moon
Richard Linklater
Twinless
James Sweeney
Cloud
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Sorry, Baby
Eva Victor
A Little Prayer
Angus MacLachlan
Most Honorable Mentions
Avatar: Fire and Ash
James Cameron
The Baltimorons
Jay Duplass
Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos
Cover-Up
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Pete Browngardt
Deaf President Now!
Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Eephus
Carson Lund
F1
Joseph Kosinski
Happy Gilmore 2
Kyle Newacheck
Highest 2 Lowest
Spike Lee
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Mary Bronstein
It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Oz Rodriguez
The Long Walk
Francis Lawrence
Materialists
Celine Song
The Naked Gun
Akiva Schaffer
Novocaine
Dan Berk and Robert Olsen
Pee-wee as Himself
Matt Wolf
Rental Family
Hikari
Roofman
Derek Cianfrance
The Running Man
Edgar Wright
The Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Together
Michael Shanks
Superman
James Gunn
The Testament of Ann Lee
Mona Fastvold
Third Act
Tadashi Nakamura
Train Dreams
Clint Bentley
Warfare
Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
Zootopia 2
Jared Bush and Byron Howard