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2025 Movies

AP: Lindsey Bahr: Best Movies of 2025

04 December 2025

Lindsey Bahr: Best Movies of 2025, as published by Associated Press

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
  3. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
  4. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  5. The Naked Gun
    Akiva Schaffer
  6. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
  7. Sound of Falling
    Mascha Schilinski
  8. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  9. The Voice of Hind Rajab
    Kaouther Ben Hania
  10. Urchin
    Harris Dickinson
  11. The Chronology of Water
    Kristen Stewart
  12. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
    Embeth Davidtz

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