Year-End Lists

Odie Henderson: 10 Best Movies of 2025, as published by The Boston Globe

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

1. The Life of Chuck
   Mike Flanagan
2. Sorry, Baby
   Eva Victor
3. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
   Rungano Nyoni
4. Frankenstein
   Guillermo del Toro
5. Wake Up Dead Man
   Rian Johnson
6. Hamnet
   Chloé Zhao
7. The Secret Agent
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
8. Highest 2 Lowest
   Spike Lee
9. Sinners
   Ryan Coogler
10. Train Dreams
    Clint Bentley

Runners-up (11-20)

• Father Mother Sister Brother
  Jim Jarmusch
• Blue Moon
  Richard Linklater
• Rental Family
  Hikari
• Jay Kelly
  Noah Baumbach
• Black Bag
  Steven Soderbergh
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
  Bill Condon
• Predator: Badlands
  Dan Trachtenberg
• Nuremberg
  James Vanderbilt
• Resurrection
  Bi Gan
• One of Them Days
  Lawrence Lamont