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2025 Movies

Rolling Stone: David Fear: The 20 Best Movies of 2025

01 December 2025

David Fear: The 20 Best Movies of 2025, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. Hamnet
    Chloé Zhao
  3. Black Bag
    Steven Soderbergh
  4. Train Dreams
    Clint Bentley
  5. Nouvelle Vague
    Richard Linklater
  6. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  7. No Other Choice
    Park Chan-wook
  8. Sorry, Baby
    Eva Victor
  9. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
  10. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  11. Peter Hujar's Day
    Ira Sachs
  12. Eddington
    Ari Aster
  13. Universal Language
    Matthew Rankin
  14. Best Wishes to All
    Yûta Shimotsu
  15. Orwell: 2+2=5
    Raoul Peck
  16. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    Rungano Nyoni
  17. The Phoenician Scheme
    Wes Anderson
  18. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
  19. Frankenstein
    Guillermo del Toro
  20. Weapons
    Zach Cregger

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