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2025 Movies

Film Comment Poll: Best Films of 2025

12 December 2025

Film Comment: Best Films of 2025, a poll of the magazine's contributors

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt
  3. The Secret Agent
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  4. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  5. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
  6. Afternoons of Solitude
    Albert Serra
  7. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie
  8. Sirāt
    Oliver Laxe
  9. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
  10. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
  11. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
  12. Grand Tour
    Miguel Gomes
  13. Peter Hujar's Day
    Ira Sachs
  14. Familiar Touch
    Sarah Friedland
  15. By the Stream
    Hong Sang-soo
  16. Henry Fonda for President
    Alexander Horwath
  17. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
  18. Direct Action
    Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell
  19. Sound of Falling
    Mascha Schilinski
  20. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    Rungano Nyoni

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