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Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2025

23 December 2025

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2025

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  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt
  3. Frankenstein
    Guillermo del Toro
  4. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
  5. No Other Choice
    Park Chan-wook
  6. Die My Love
    Lynne Ramsay
  7. Hamnet
    Chloé Zhao
  8. Afternoons of Solitude
    Albert Serra
  9. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  10. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
  11. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
  12. Peter Hujar's Day
    Ira Sachs
  13. Sorry, Baby
    Eva Victor
  14. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
  15. Bugonia
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  16. Happyend
    Neo Sora
  17. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis
  18. Mickey 17
    Bong Joon-ho
  19. Alpha
    Julia Ducournau
  20. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  21. Predators
    David Osit
  22. The Phoenician Scheme
    Wes Anderson
  23. Cover-Up
    Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
  24. The Naked Gun
    Akiva Schaffer
  25. The Smashing Machine
    Benny Safdie
  26. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  27. I Only Rest in the Storm
    Pedro Pinho
  28. Zodiac Killer Project
    Charlie Shackleton
  29. Pavements
    Alex Ross Perry
  30. Eddington
    Ari Aster

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