Year-End Lists

Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025, an annual poll of critics and contributors, published by Sight & Sound Magazine

1. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Sinners
   Ryan Coogler
3. The Mastermind
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Sirāt
   Oliver Laxe
5. The Secret Agent
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
6. It Was Just an Accident
   Jafar Panahi
7. Sorry, Baby
   Eva Victor
8. Weapons
   Zach Cregger
9. Dry Leaf
   Aleksandre Koberidze
10. Resurrection
    Bi Gan
11. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
12. Sound of Falling
    Mascha Schilinski
13. Kontinental '25
    Radu Jude
14. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie
15. No Other Choice
    Park Chan-wook
16. Pillion
    Harry Lighton
17. Blue Heron
    Sophy Romvari
18. The Ice Tower
    Lucile Hadzihalilovic
19. The Voice of Hind Rajab
    Kaouther Ben Hania
20. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
21. A House of Dynamite
    Kathryn Bigelow
22. Rose of Nevada
    Mark Jenkin
23. Afternoons of Solitude
    Albert Serra
24. April
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
25. Eddington
    Ari Aster
26. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
27. The Love That Remains
    Hlynur Pálmason
28. Nouvelle Vague
    Richard Linklater
29. Black Bag
    Steven Soderbergh
30. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
31. Father Mother Sister Brother
    Jim Jarmusch
32. My Father's Shadow
    Akinola Davies Jr.
33. On Falling
    Laura Carreira
34. Remake
    Ross McElwee
35. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
36. Silent Friend
    Ildikó Enyedi
37. Souleymane's Story
    Boris Lojkine
38. 28 Years Later
    Danny Boyle
39. Cover-Up
    Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
40. Die My Love
    Lynne Ramsay
41. Hamnet
    Chloé Zhao
42. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh
43. Highest 2 Lowest
    Spike Lee
44. Landmarks
    Lucrecia Martel
45. Miroirs No. 3
    Christian Petzold
46. Nickel Boys
    RaMell Ross
47. Dreams
    Dag Johan Haugerud
48. The Phoenician Scheme
    Wes Anderson
49. What Does That Nature Say to You
    Hong Sang-soo
50. With Hasan in Gaza
    Kamal Aljafari

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Best Films of 2025 Amy Taubin · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2025 Jordan Cronk