Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: Best Movies of 2025, as published by The New York Times

1. Sinners
   Ryan Coogler
2. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Marty Supreme
   Josh Safdie
4. It Was Just an Accident
   Jafar Panahi
5. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
   Kahlil Joseph
6. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
   Julia Loktev
7. Sorry, Baby
   Eva Victor
8. The Secret Agent
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
9. Caught by the Tides
   Jia Zhang-ke
10. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt

Other movies that I liked and urge you to see

• Presence
  Steven Soderbergh
• No Other Land
  Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
• The Annihilation of Fish
  Charles Burnett
• Mickey 17
  Bong Joon-ho
• Black Bag
  Steven Soderbergh
• Materialists
  Celine Song
• Souleymane's Story
  Boris Lojkine
• Highest 2 Lowest
  Spike Lee
• Suspended Time
  Olivier Assayas
• Megadoc
  Mike Figgis
• Blue Moon
  Richard Linklater
• Orwell: 2+2=5
  Raoul Peck
• The Alabama Solution
  Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
• A House of Dynamite
  Kathryn Bigelow
• The Perfect Neighbor
  Geeta Gandbhir
• Sentimental Value
  Joachim Trier
• Nouvelle Vague
  Richard Linklater
• Resurrection
  Bi Gan
• Cover-Up
  Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
• The Testament of Ann Lee
  Mona Fastvold
• No Other Choice
  Park Chan-wook