Year-End Lists

Cory Woodroof: The 15 Best Films of 2025, as published by USA Today’s For the Win

• Sinners
  Ryan Coogler
• One Battle After Another
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Marty Supreme
  Josh Safdie
• 28 Years Later
  Danny Boyle
• Weapons
  Zach Cregger
• The Phoenician Scheme
  Wes Anderson
• Jay Kelly
  Noah Baumbach
• Wake Up Dead Man
  Rian Johnson
• Lurker
  Alex Russell
• Eddington
  Ari Aster
• Blue Moon
  Richard Linklater
• Twinless
  James Sweeney
• Cloud
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Sorry, Baby
  Eva Victor
• A Little Prayer
  Angus MacLachlan

Most Honorable Mentions

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
  James Cameron
• The Baltimorons
  Jay Duplass
• Bugonia
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Cover-Up
  Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
  Pete Browngardt
• Deaf President Now!
  Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
• Eephus
  Carson Lund
• F1
  Joseph Kosinski
• Happy Gilmore 2
  Kyle Newacheck
• Highest 2 Lowest
  Spike Lee
• If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
  Mary Bronstein
• It Was Just an Accident
  Jafar Panahi
• Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
  Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Oz Rodriguez
• The Long Walk
  Francis Lawrence
• Materialists
  Celine Song
• The Naked Gun
  Akiva Schaffer
• Novocaine
  Dan Berk and Robert Olsen
• Pee-wee as Himself
  Matt Wolf
• Rental Family
  Hikari
• Roofman
  Derek Cianfrance
• The Running Man
  Edgar Wright
• The Secret Agent
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Together
  Michael Shanks
• Superman
  James Gunn
• The Testament of Ann Lee
  Mona Fastvold
• Third Act
  Tadashi Nakamura
• Train Dreams
  Clint Bentley
• Warfare
  Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
• Zootopia 2
  Jared Bush and Byron Howard