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2025 Movies

Vulture: Alison Willmore: The Best Movies of 2025

01 December 2025

Alison Willmore: The Best Movies of 2025, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt
  3. Black Bag
    Steven Soderbergh
  4. The Secret Agent
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  5. April
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
  6. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
    Julia Loktev
  7. The Naked Gun
    Akiva Schaffer
  8. Sound of Falling
    Mascha Schilinski
  9. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
  10. Sex
    Dag Johan Haugerud
  11. Love
    Dag Johan Haugerud
  12. Dreams
    Dag Johan Haugerud

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