Year-End Lists

Justin Chang: The Best Films of 2025. Click through to the New Yorker to see how he has presented the films in pairs and triples.

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Sirāt
   Oliver Laxe
2. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Caught by the Tides
   Jia Zhang-ke
4. Resurrection
   Bi Gan
5. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
   Julia Loktev
6. The Secret Agent
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
7. Sound of Falling
   Mascha Schilinski
8. April
   Déa Kulumbegashvili
9. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
   Rungano Nyoni
10. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
11. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
12. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
13. Who by Fire
    Philippe Lesage
14. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
15. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
16. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt
17. No Other Choice
    Park Chan-wook
18. Sorry, Baby
    Eva Victor
19. Souleymane's Story
    Boris Lojkine
20. Black Bag
    Steven Soderbergh
21. Presence
    Steven Soderbergh
22. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie
23. Wake Up Dead Man
    Rian Johnson
24. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
25. Nouvelle Vague
    Richard Linklater

Honorable mentions

• 28 Years Later
  Danny Boyle
• Below the Clouds
  Gianfranco Rosi
• BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
  Kahlil Joseph
• Cover-Up
  Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
• Eephus
  Carson Lund
• Father Mother Sister Brother
  Jim Jarmusch
• Grand Tour
  Miguel Gomes
• Is This Thing On?
  Bradley Cooper
• The Love That Remains
  Hlynur Pálmason
• Magellan
  Lav Diaz
• The Perfect Neighbor
  Geeta Gandbhir
• Peter Hujar's Day
  Ira Sachs
• Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
  Sepideh Farsi
• The Shrouds
  David Cronenberg
• Warfare
  Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
• Weapons
  Zach Cregger