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2025 Movies

Esquire: Max Cea: The 10 Best Movies of 2025

22 December 2025

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

Max Cea: The 10 Best Movies of 2025, as published by Esquire

[see also 2024]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
  3. Eddington
    Ari Aster
  4. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh
  5. Splitsville
    Michael Angelo Covino
  6. Happyend
    Neo Sora
  7. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
  8. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  9. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
  10. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein

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