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2025 Movies

Passerby: Best Films of 2025

01 January 2026

Passerby: Best Films of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  3. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  4. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
  5. Bugonia
    Yorgos Lanthimos

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