Year-End Lists

Lists

1. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Amy Nicholson: Los Angeles Times
1. The Best Films of 2025: Richard Brody: New Yorker
1. Best Movies of 2025: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
1. The Best Movies of 2025: Ty Burr
1. Top 10 Films of 2025: Victor Morton
2. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Peter Travers: The Travers Take
2. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Brian Truitt: USA Today
2. Favorite Films of 2025: Austin Noto-Moniz
2. Top Ten Films of 2025: Mike D’Angelo
2. The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
2. The Best Movies of 2025: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
3. The Ten Best Films of 2025: RogerEbert.com
3. Best Movies of 2025: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
3. Top 50 Films of 2025: Film Stage
3. Top Ten Films of 2025: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
4. 25 Best Films of 2025: A.V. Club
4. Top Ten Films of 2025: Dave Gonzalez: Fighting in the War Room
4. The Best Films of 2025: Keith Phipps: The Reveal
4. Best Films of 2025: Passerby
4. The Ten Best Films of 2025: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
4. Top Ten Films of 2025: Monica Castillo: RogerEbert.com
5. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: David Sims: Atlantic
5. Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey
5. Top Ten Films of 2025: Katey Rich: Fighting in the War Room
6. The 25 Best Films of 2025: Slant
6. Best Movies of 2025: Lindsey Bahr: AP
7. Best Movies of 2025: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
7. Top Ten Films of 2025: Matt Zoller Seitz: RogerEbert.com
7. Best Movies of 2025: Jake Coyle: AP
7. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Stephanie Zacharek: Time
7. Top 10 Films of 2025: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
7. 10 Best Films of 2025: Anita Katz: Bay City News
7. Best Films of 2025: In Review Online
8. The Best Movies of 2025: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
8. Top 20 Films of 2025: Bilge Ebiri: Slate: Movie Club
8. Best Movies of 2025: Alissa Wilkinson: New York Times
8. The Best Films of 2025: Scott Tobias: The Reveal
9. 10 Best Movies of 2025: Odie Henderson: Boston Globe
9. The 10 Best Films of 2025: Christina Newland: The i Paper
9. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Ann Hornaday: Washington Post
9. Best Movies of 2025: Jon Frosch: Hollywood Reporter
9. Best Films of 2025: Mark Kermode
9. The 25 Best Films of 2025: The Playlist
10. Best Films of 2025: Justine Smith: Cult MTL
10. The Best Movies of 2025: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
11. Best Films of 2025: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
11. The 30 Best Films of 2025: Little White Lies
11. Top Ten Films of 2025: Tasha Robinson: The Next Picture Show
13. Best Movies of 2025: Screen Slate
13. The 25 Best Films of 2025: David Ehrlich
14. The Best Films of 2025: A.A. Dowd
16. The 25 Best Movies of 2025: IndieWire
18. The 50 Best Movies of 2025: Guardian
24. The Best Films of 2025: Justin Chang: New Yorker

• The 20 Best Movies of 2025: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
• Top 10 Movies of 2025: Sam Adams: Slate
• Best Films of 2025: Lovia Gyarkye: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The Best Films of 2025: Economist
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Dana Stevens: Slate
• The 25 Best Films of 2025: BBC: BBC Culture
• The Best Films Of 2025: HuffPost
• The Best Movie of 2025: IGN
• Favorite Movies of 2025: Barack Obama
• The Best Films of 2025: Sean Burns: WBUR
• The Best Films of 2025: Erin Trahan: WBUR
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Entertainment Weekly
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Christy Lemire: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Craig Lindsey: RogerEbert.com
• Top 10 Movies of 2025: Steve Erickson: GCN
• Best Films of 2025: Spectrum Culture