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2025 Movies

IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025

03 December 2025

IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2015]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
  3. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  4. Sirāt
    Oliver Laxe
  5. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  6. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
  7. Resurrection
    Bi Gan
  8. Eddington
    Ari Aster
  9. The Testament of Ann Lee
    Mona Fastvold
  10. The Secret Agent
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  11. Sorry, Baby
    Eva Victor
  12. 28 Years Later
    Danny Boyle
  13. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie
  14. Hamnet
    Chloé Zhao
  15. Urchin
    Harris Dickinson
  16. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
  17. The Naked Gun
    Akiva Schaffer
  18. Predators
    David Osit
  19. April
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
  20. Pillion
    Harry Lighton
  21. The Perfect Neighbor
    Geeta Gandbhir
  22. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  23. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
  24. My Father's Shadow
    Akinola Davies Jr.
  25. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg

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