Year-End Lists

Peter Debruge: The Best Movies of 2025, as published by Variety

1. Dreams
   Dag Johan Haugerud
2. Souleymane's Story
   Boris Lojkine
3. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Sound of Falling
   Mascha Schilinski
5. 28 Years Later
   Danny Boyle
6. Marty Supreme
   Josh Safdie
7. It Was Just an Accident
   Jafar Panahi
8. Train Dreams
   Clint Bentley
9. The President's Cake
   Hasan Hadi
10. Steve
    Tim Mielants

10 more for good measure

• Black Bag
  Steven Soderbergh
• BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
  Kahlil Joseph
• Bring Them Down
  Christopher Andrews
• Bugonia
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Hamnet
  Chloé Zhao
• Jay Kelly
  Noah Baumbach
• Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
  Matt Johnson
• Nouvelle Vague
  Richard Linklater
• Sorry, Baby
  Eva Victor
• Twinless
  James Sweeney