Year-End Lists

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2025 Movies

David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025

20 January 2026

David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025, his annual video countown

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
  3. Sirāt
    Oliver Laxe
  4. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  5. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
  6. April
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
  7. 28 Years Later
    Danny Boyle
  8. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  9. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  10. The Testament of Ann Lee
    Mona Fastvold
  11. Eddington
    Ari Aster
  12. Pillion
    Harry Lighton
  13. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
  14. Hamnet
    Chloé Zhao
  15. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
  16. The Chronology of Water
    Kristen Stewart
  17. The Naked Gun
    Akiva Schaffer
  18. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
  19. Weapons
    Zach Cregger
  20. Urchin
    Harris Dickinson
  21. No Other Choice
    Park Chan-wook
  22. Predators
    David Osit
  23. Mickey 17
    Bong Joon-ho
  24. The Secret Agent
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  25. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt

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