Year-End Lists

Peter Travers: The 10 Best Movies of 2025, as posted at The Travers Take

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

1. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Sinners
   Ryan Coogler
3. Marty Supreme
   Josh Safdie
4. It Was Just an Accident
   Jafar Panahi
5. Hamnet
   Chloé Zhao
6. Sentimental Value
   Joachim Trier
7. Sorry, Baby
   Eva Victor
8. No Other Choice
   Park Chan-wook
9. Train Dreams
   Clint Bentley
10. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
10. Nouvelle Vague
    Richard Linklater

The Best of the Rest

• Twinless
  James Sweeney
• Eephus
  Carson Lund
• Lurker
  Alex Russell
• The Testament of Ann Lee
  Mona Fastvold
• Weapons
  Zach Cregger
• The Ugly Stepsister
  Emilie Blichfeldt
• Urchin
  Harris Dickinson
• Rosemead
  Eric Lin
• My Father's Shadow
  Akinola Davies Jr.
• Pillion
  Harry Lighton
• The Chronology of Water
  Kristen Stewart
• One of Them Days
  Lawrence Lamont
• Frankenstein
  Guillermo del Toro
• Black Bag
  Steven Soderbergh
• Presence
  Steven Soderbergh
• Father Mother Sister Brother
  Jim Jarmusch
• The Mastermind
  Kelly Reichardt
• Bugonia
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• A House of Dynamite
  Kathryn Bigelow
• Highest 2 Lowest
  Spike Lee
• The Phoenician Scheme
  Wes Anderson
• Peter Hujar's Day
  Ira Sachs
• Jay Kelly
  Noah Baumbach
• Roofman
  Derek Cianfrance
• The Secret Agent
  Kleber Mendonça Filho