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2025 Movies

Cult MTL: Justine Smith: Best Films of 2025

11 January 2026

Justine Smith: Best Films of 2025, as published by Cult MTL

[see also 2024 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt
  3. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  4. The Secret Agent
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  5. Magellan
    Lav Diaz
  6. A Poet
    Simón Mesa Soto
  7. Fucktoys
    Annapurna Sriram
  8. Left-Handed Girl
    Shih-Ching Tsou
  9. The Phoenician Scheme
    Wes Anderson
  10. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler

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