Year-End Lists

Öykü Sofuoğlu: Best Films of 2025, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

• Blue Moon
  Richard Linklater
• By the Stream
  Hong Sang-soo
• Caught by the Tides
  Jia Zhang-ke
• Cloud
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Collective Monologue
  Jessica Sarah Rinland
• Direct Action
  Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell
• Eat the Night
  Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
• Familiar Touch
  Sarah Friedland
• Fire of Wind
  Marta Mateus
• Grand Tour
  Miguel Gomes
• Invention
  Courtney Stephens
• Misericordia
  Alain Guiraudie
• One Battle After Another
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Queens of Drama
  Alexis Langlois
• Sirāt
  Oliver Laxe
• The Love That Remains
  Hlynur Pálmason
• The Mastermind
  Kelly Reichardt
• The Secret Agent
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• The Shrouds
  David Cronenberg
• You Burn Me
  Matías Piñeiro