Year-End Lists

David Fear: The 20 Best Movies of 2025, as published by Rolling Stone

1. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Hamnet
   Chloé Zhao
3. Black Bag
   Steven Soderbergh
4. Train Dreams
   Clint Bentley
5. Nouvelle Vague
   Richard Linklater
6. It Was Just an Accident
   Jafar Panahi
7. No Other Choice
   Park Chan-wook
8. Sorry, Baby
   Eva Victor
9. Marty Supreme
   Josh Safdie
10. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
11. Peter Hujar's Day
    Ira Sachs
12. Eddington
    Ari Aster
13. Universal Language
    Matthew Rankin
14. Best Wishes to All
    Yûta Shimotsu
15. Orwell: 2+2=5
    Raoul Peck
16. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    Rungano Nyoni
17. The Phoenician Scheme
    Wes Anderson
18. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
19. Frankenstein
    Guillermo del Toro
20. Weapons
    Zach Cregger

Special shout-outs to

• Blue Moon
  Richard Linklater
• F1
  Joseph Kosinski
• Is This Thing On?
  Bradley Cooper
• One to One: John & Yoko
  Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards
• My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
  Julia Loktev
• The President's Cake
  Hasan Hadi
• The Secret Agent
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Sinners
  Ryan Coogler
• Sirāt
  Oliver Laxe
• The Voice of Hind Rajab
  Kaouther Ben Hania