Year-End Lists

Isabel Stevens: Best Films of 2025, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

1. Sirāt
   Oliver Laxe
2. The Secret Agent
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
3. Marty Supreme
   Josh Safdie
4. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Sentimental Value
   Joachim Trier
6. The Mastermind
   Kelly Reichardt
7. The Phoenician Scheme
   Wes Anderson
8. Nouvelle Vague
   Richard Linklater
9. Black Bag
   Steven Soderbergh
10. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
11. Splitsville
    Michael Angelo Covino
12. Sorry, Baby
    Eva Victor
13. Sound of Falling
    Mascha Schilinski
14. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
15. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
16. Little Trouble Girls
    Urška Djukić
17. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
18. Eddington
    Ari Aster
19. A House of Dynamite
    Kathryn Bigelow