Year-End Lists

Ty Burr: The Best Movies of 2025 as posted on Ty Burr's Watch List

[see also 2024 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Sinners
   Ryan Coogler
2. Hamnet
   Chloé Zhao
3. It Was Just an Accident
   Jafar Panahi
4. Eephus
   Carson Lund
5. One Battle After Another
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Sentimental Value
   Joachim Trier
7. A Little Prayer
   Angus MacLachlan
8. Train Dreams
   Clint Bentley
9. Weapons
   Zach Cregger
10. The Perfect Neighbor
    Geeta Gandbhir

Runners-up, in alphabetical order

• Black Bag
  Steven Soderbergh
• Bugonia
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• No Other Choice
  Park Chan-wook
• Nouvelle Vague
  Richard Linklater
• Pee-wee as Himself
  Matt Wolf
• Pavements
  Alex Ross Perry
• Peter Hujar's Day
  Ira Sachs
• Resurrection
  Bi Gan
• The Secret Agent
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Sirāt
  Oliver Laxe
• Sound of Falling
  Mascha Schilinski
• Sorry, Baby
  Eva Victor
• The Testament of Ann Lee
  Mona Fastvold

Movies I liked but not quite enough to make this list; your mileage may vary

• Blue Moon
  Richard Linklater
• Caught by the Tides
  Jia Zhang-ke
• Familiar Touch
  Sarah Friedland
• Frankenstein
  Guillermo del Toro
• Highest 2 Lowest
  Spike Lee
• If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
  Mary Bronstein
• Marty Supreme
  Josh Safdie
• The Mastermind
  Kelly Reichardt
• Misericordia
  Alain Guiraudie
• Secret Mall Apartment
  Jeremy Workman
• Souleymane's Story
  Boris Lojkine
• Wake Up Dead Man
  Rian Johnson