Year-End Lists

Steve Erickson: Top 10 Movies of 2025, as published by Gay City News in no particular order, along with lists of new films not yet streaming in the US, older films released to American theaters for the first time, and shorts

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014]

• BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
  Kahlil Joseph
• Caught by the Tides
  Jia Zhang-ke
• Cloud
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• The Mastermind
  Kelly Reichardt
• My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
  Julia Loktev
• Predators
  David Osit
• Reflection in a Dead Diamond
  Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
• Sinners
  Ryan Coogler
• The Temple Woods Gang
  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
• Vulcanizadora
  Joel Potrykus

Runners-up

• Dracula
  Radu Jude
• Eephus
  Carson Lund
• Henry Fonda for President
  Alexander Horwath
• Lesbian Space Princess
  Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese
• The Long Walk
  Francis Lawrence
• Lurker
  Alex Russell
• Misericordia
  Alain Guiraudie
• 7 Walks with Mark Brown
  Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré
• Twinless
  James Sweeney