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2025 Movies

Filmspotting: Michael Phillips: Top 10 Films of 2025

27 December 2025

Michael Phillips: Top 10 Films of 2025, as discussed on Filmspotting

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. Hedda
    Nia DaCosta
  3. Sorry, Baby
    Eva Victor
  4. The Secret Agent
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  5. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
    Julia Loktev
  6. No Other Choice
    Park Chan-wook
  7. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  8. Orwell: 2+2=5
    Raoul Peck
  9. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    Rungano Nyoni
  10. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt

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