Year-End Lists

Chase Hutchinson: Top Ten Films of 2025, as published by RogerEbert.com

1. April
   Déa Kulumbegashvili
2. The Mastermind
   Kelly Reichardt
3. Train Dreams
   Clint Bentley
4. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
   Mary Bronstein
5. Resurrection
   Bi Gan
6. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
7. Powwow People
   Sky Hopinka
8. WTO/99
   Ian Bell
9. Sorry, Baby
   Eva Victor
10. The Chronology of Water
    Kristen Stewart

Runners-ups

• Alpha
  Julia Ducournau
• BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
  Kahlil Joseph
• Boys Go to Jupiter
  Julian Glander
• Hedda
  Nia DaCosta
• It Was Just an Accident
  Jafar Panahi
• Friendship
  Andrew DeYoung
• Misericordia
  Alain Guiraudie
• Not One Drop of Blood
  Lachlan Hinton and Jackson Devereux
• Obex
  Albert Birney
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  Rungano Nyoni
• Sinners
  Ryan Coogler
• The Secret Agent
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• To Kill a Wolf
  Kelsey Taylor
• Urchin
  Harris Dickinson
• Vulcanizadora
  Joel Potrykus
• Wake Up Dead Man
  Rian Johnson
• Zodiac Killer Project
  Charlie Shackleton