Year-End Lists

Lists

1. Best Movies of 2025: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
1. Best Movies of 2025: Jon Frosch: Hollywood Reporter
1. Best Movies of 2025: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
2. Best Movies of 2025: Sheri Linden: Hollywood Reporter
2. Top Ten Films of 2025: Matt Zoller Seitz: RogerEbert.com
3. Best Films of 2025: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
3. Best Movies of 2025: Eric Hynes: Screen Slate
3. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Nick Schager: Daily Beast
3. Best Films of 2025: Amy Taubin: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
3. The Best Films of 2025: Richard Brody: New Yorker
4. Best Films of 2025: Justine Smith: Cult MTL
4. Top 10 Films of 2025: Cahiers du Cinéma
4. The Best Movies of 2025: Alison Willmore: New York: Vulture
4. Top 10 Films of 2025: Michael Phillips: Filmspotting
4. Favorite Films of 2025: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine
5. Top Ten Films of 2025: Robert Daniels: RogerEbert.com
5. Best Films of 2025: Reverse Shot
5. Best Films of 2025: Beatrice Loayza: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
5. The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
5. The Best Movies of 2025: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
5. Best Movies of 2025: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
6. The Best Films of 2025: Justin Chang: New Yorker
6. 25 Best Films of 2025: A.V. Club
6. Our Top Films of 2025: Les Inrocks
6. Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey
6. 10 Best Films of 2025: Anita Katz: Bay City News
6. Top Ten Films of 2025: Dave Gonzalez: Fighting in the War Room
7. The Ten Best Films of 2025: RogerEbert.com
7. Best Films of 2025: Molly Haskell: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
7. The 50 Best Movies of 2025: Guardian
7. 10 Best Movies of 2025: Odie Henderson: Boston Globe
8. Best Films of 2025: In Review Online
8. Top 10 Films of 2025: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
8. The 25 Best Films of 2025: The Playlist
8. The 25 Best Films of 2025: Slant
8. The Ten Best Films of 2025: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
8. Best Movies of 2025: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
10. The Best Films of 2025: Scott Tobias: The Reveal
10. The 25 Best Movies of 2025: IndieWire
10. Top Ten Films of 2025: Monica Castillo: RogerEbert.com
10. Best Films of 2025: Kevin B. Lee: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
10. Best Movies of 2025: Screen Slate
11. 15 Best Films of 2025: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel
12. The Best Films of 2025: Keith Phipps: The Reveal
12. Top 20 Films of 2025: Bilge Ebiri: Slate: Movie Club
13. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: People
14. Top 50 Films of 2025: Film Stage
14. The 20 Best Films of 2025: Dazed
24. The 25 Best Films of 2025: David Ehrlich

• Top 10 Films of 2025: Victor Morton
• The Best Movies of 2025: Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal
• The Best Films of 2025: Economist
• 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 Films of 2025: Ryan Swen
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Peter Travers: The Travers Take
• Best Films of 2025: Florence Almozini: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2025: Lovia Gyarkye: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Stephanie Zacharek: Time
• The 25 Best Films of 2025: BBC: BBC Culture
• Best Movies of 2025: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: David Sims: Atlantic
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Dana Stevens: Slate
• The 11 Best Movies of 2025: Vanity Fair
• Favorite Movies of 2025: Barack Obama
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Max Cea: Esquire
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Tomris Laffly: RogerEbert.com
• The Best Movies of 2025: Ty Burr
• Best Films of 2025: Caden Mark Gardner: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll