Year-End Lists

Antoine Thirion: Best Films of 2025, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

1. Afternoons of Solitude
   Albert Serra
2. The Secret Agent
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
3. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Misericordia
   Alain Guiraudie
5. The Mastermind
   Kelly Reichardt
6. It Was Just an Accident
   Jafar Panahi
7. Việt and Nam
   Truong Minh Quy
8. Direct Action
   Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell
9. Sirāt
   Oliver Laxe
10. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
11. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
12. By the Stream
    Hong Sang-soo
13. Sound of Falling
    Mascha Schilinski
14. Collective Monologue
    Jessica Sarah Rinland
15. Bogancloch
    Ben Rivers
16. You Burn Me
    Matías Piñeiro
17. Pepe
    Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
18. Grand Tour
    Miguel Gomes
19. Fire of Wind
    Marta Mateus
20. Resurrection
    Bi Gan