Year-End Lists

Stephanie Zacharek: The 10 Best Movies of 2025, as published by Time Magazine

1. Nouvelle Vague
   Richard Linklater
2. An Officer and a Spy
   Roman Polanski
3. Blue Moon
   Richard Linklater
4. Sentimental Value
   Joachim Trier
5. Peter Hujar's Day
   Ira Sachs
6. Roofman
   Derek Cianfrance
7. Sinners
   Ryan Coogler
8. The Mastermind
   Kelly Reichardt
9. Kill the Jockey
   Luis Ortega
10. One of Them Days
    Lawrence Lamont

Honorable Mentions

• The Secret Agent
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• One Battle After Another
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
  The Brothers Quay
• Die My Love
  Lynne Ramsay
• Orwell: 2+2=5
  Raoul Peck
• Souleymane's Story
  Boris Lojkine
• Train Dreams
  Clint Bentley
• Urchin
  Harris Dickinson
• Father Mother Sister Brother
  Jim Jarmusch
• Highest 2 Lowest
  Spike Lee