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2025
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The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Slate: Dana Stevens

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Atlantic: David Sims

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Best Movies of 2025 ScreenCrush: Matt Singer

It Was Just an Accident - Jafar Panahi

The Best Movies of 2025 The Ringer: Adam Nayman

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Los Angeles Times: Amy Nicholson

Sinners - Ryan Coogler

The Best Films of 2025 New Yorker: Richard Brody

Sirāt - Oliver Laxe

The Best Films of 2025 New Yorker: Justin Chang

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound Poll

Best Movies of 2025 AP: Jake Coyle

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

Best Movies of 2025 AP: Lindsey Bahr

Nouvelle Vague - Richard Linklater

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Time: Stephanie Zacharek

The Best Movies of 2025 Vulture: John Waters

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

Best Movies of 2025 New York Times: Alissa Wilkinson

Sinners - Ryan Coogler

Best Movies of 2025 New York Times: Manohla Dargis

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Best Movies of 2025 Vulture: Alison Willmore

Train Dreams - Clint Bentley

The Best Movies of 2025 Vulture: Bilge Ebiri

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

The 20 Best Movies of 2025 Rolling Stone: David Fear

Blue Moon - Richard Linklater

The 10 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2025 Them

Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

I Only Rest in the Storm - Pedro Pinho

Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks

The Secret Agent - Kleber Mendonça Filho

The Best Films of 2025 Economist

Sirāt - Oliver Laxe

Top Ten Films of 2025 Jordan Cronk

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