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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025

05 December 2025

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

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  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

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