Year-End Lists

The Economist: The Best Films of 2025, drawing from films released in America or Britain this year

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

• 28 Years Later
  Danny Boyle
• The Brutalist
  Brady Corbet
• Flow
  Gints Zilbalodis
• Hamnet
  Chloé Zhao
• A House of Dynamite
  Kathryn Bigelow
• I'm Still Here
  Walter Salles
• Is This Thing On?
  Bradley Cooper
• It Was Just an Accident
  Jafar Panahi
• One Battle After Another
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Secret Agent
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Sentimental Value
  Joachim Trier
• Sinners
  Ryan Coogler
• Wake Up Dead Man
  Rian Johnson
• Weapons
  Zach Cregger