Year-End Lists

Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s]

1. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Eddington
   Ari Aster
3. No Other Choice
   Park Chan-wook
4. Marty Supreme
   Josh Safdie
5. Sinners
   Ryan Coogler
6. The Secret Agent
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
7. Weapons
   Zach Cregger
8. The Mastermind
   Kelly Reichardt
9. Pillion
   Harry Lighton
10. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
11. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
12. 28 Years Later
    Danny Boyle
13. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
14. Cover-Up
    Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
15. Train Dreams
    Clint Bentley
16. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
    Julia Loktev
17. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
18. Lurker
    Alex Russell
19. Shifty
    Adam Curtis
20. Black Bag
    Steven Soderbergh
21. Predators
    David Osit
22. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
23. The Testament of Ann Lee
    Mona Fastvold
24. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
25. Father Mother Sister Brother
    Jim Jarmusch
26. Sorry, Baby
    Eva Victor
27. Final Destination Bloodlines
    Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein
28. Die My Love
    Lynne Ramsay
29. The Smashing Machine
    Benny Safdie
30. Warfare
    Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
31. Wake Up Dead Man
    Rian Johnson
32. Superman
    James Gunn
33. Resurrection
    Bi Gan
34. The Phoenician Scheme
    Wes Anderson
35. Bugonia
    Yorgos Lanthimos
36. Familiar Touch
    Sarah Friedland
37. Friendship
    Andrew DeYoung
38. Roofman
    Derek Cianfrance
39. The Things You Kill
    Alireza Khatami
40. Predator: Killer of Killers
    Dan Trachtenberg
41. A Desert
    Joshua Erkman
42. One of Them Days
    Lawrence Lamont
43. Eephus
    Carson Lund
44. Presence
    Steven Soderbergh
45. Mickey 17
    Bong Joon-ho
46. Peter Hujar's Day
    Ira Sachs
47. Influencers
    Kurtis David Harder
48. The Ballad of Wallis Island
    James Griffiths
49. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie
50. Jay Kelly
    Noah Baumbach
51. Splitsville
    Michael Angelo Covino
52. KPop Demon Hunters
    Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
53. A Little Prayer
    Angus MacLachlan
54. 2000 Meters to Andriivka
    Mstyslav Chernov
55. Vulcanizadora
    Joel Potrykus
56. Becoming Led Zeppelin
    Bernard MacMahon
57. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
    Simon Curtis
58. Dracula
    Radu Jude
59. F1
    Joseph Kosinski
60. The Perfect Neighbor
    Geeta Gandbhir
61. Highest 2 Lowest
    Spike Lee
62. Invention
    Courtney Stephens
63. Megadoc
    Mike Figgis
64. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    Rungano Nyoni
65. The Naked Gun
    Akiva Schaffer
66. Zodiac Killer Project
    Charlie Shackleton
67. Song Sung Blue
    Craig Brewer
68. Wick Is Pain
    Jeffrey Doe
69. Zootopia 2
    Jared Bush and Byron Howard
70. Reflection in a Dead Diamond
    Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
71. Avatar: Fire and Ash
    James Cameron
72. Nouvelle Vague
    Richard Linklater
73. Sirāt
    Oliver Laxe
74. Hedda
    Nia DaCosta
75. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    Christopher McQuarrie
76. Magellan
    Lav Diaz
77. Thunderbolts*
    Jake Schreier
78. The Monkey
    Osgood Perkins
79. Arco
    Ugo Bienvenu
80. Predator: Badlands
    Dan Trachtenberg
81. Bring Her Back
    Danny and Michael Philippou
82. Companion
    Drew Hancock
83. Hamnet
    Chloé Zhao
84. Paddington in Peru
    Dougal Wilson
85. The Legend of Ochi
    Isaiah Saxon
86. The Plague
    Charlie Polinger
87. The Running Man
    Edgar Wright
88. The Life of Chuck
    Mike Flanagan
89. Harvest
    Athina Rachel Tsangari
90. Nuremberg
    James Vanderbilt
91. The Assessment
    Fleur Fortuné
92. Borderline
    Jimmy Warden
93. Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
    Tatsuya Yoshihara
94. Dead Man’s Wire
    Gus Van Sant
95. Left-Handed Girl
    Shih-Ching Tsou
96. The Long Walk
    Francis Lawrence
97. Orwell: 2+2=5
    Raoul Peck
98. Seven Veils
    Atom Egoyan
99. Strange Harvest
    Stuart Ortiz
100. Urchin
     Harris Dickinson