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2025 Movies

A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2025

20 January 2026

Marty Supreme - Josh Safdie

A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2025, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

  1. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
  2. Eephus
    Carson Lund
  3. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  4. No Other Choice
    Park Chan-wook
  5. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
  6. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  7. Splitsville
    Michael Angelo Covino
  8. Sirāt
    Oliver Laxe
  9. Predators
    David Osit
  10. The Long Walk
    Francis Lawrence
  11. Twinless
    James Sweeney
  12. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt
  13. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  14. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
  15. Wake Up Dead Man
    Rian Johnson
  16. The Testament of Ann Lee
    Mona Fastvold
  17. Familiar Touch
    Sarah Friedland
  18. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
  19. Vulcanizadora
    Joel Potrykus
  20. Sound of Falling
    Mascha Schilinski
  21. Bugonia
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  22. Sister Midnight
    Karan Kandhari
  23. Souleymane's Story
    Boris Lojkine
  24. Lurker
    Alex Russell
  25. Hedda
    Nia DaCosta

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