Year-End Lists

Michael Blair: Best Films of 2025, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

1. The Secret Agent
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
2. By the Stream
   Hong Sang-soo
3. The Mastermind
   Kelly Reichardt
4. 7 Walks with Mark Brown
   Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré
5. Caught by the Tides
   Jia Zhang-ke
6. Misericordia
   Alain Guiraudie
7. Afternoons of Solitude
   Albert Serra
8. The Shrouds
   David Cronenberg
9. You Burn Me
   Matías Piñeiro
10. Dracula
    Radu Jude
11. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
12. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
13. Familiar Touch
    Sarah Friedland
14. Pee-wee as Himself
    Matt Wolf
15. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
16. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    Christopher McQuarrie
17. Happyend
    Neo Sora
18. Black Bag
    Steven Soderbergh
19. Cover-Up
    Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
20. Grand Tour
    Miguel Gomes