Year-End Lists

Appears on 170 lists

• #1 The Best Movies of 2025: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
• #1 Best Films of 2025: Vadim Rizov: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Top 10 Films of 2025: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
• #1 Top Ten Films of 2025: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
• #1 Best Films of 2025: Jamsheed Akrami: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2025: Chris Cassingham: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2025: Celia Mattison: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2025: Vikram Murthi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2025: Maddie Whittle: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2025: Vadim Rizov: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Top Ten Films of 2025: Katey Rich: Fighting in the War Room
• #2 Best Movies of 2025: Alissa Wilkinson: New York Times
• #2 The Ten Best Films of 2025: RogerEbert.com
• #2 The 10 Best Movies of 2025: David Sims: Atlantic
• #2 Best Movies of 2025: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Mark Kermode
• #2 Top Ten Films of 2025: Robert Daniels: RogerEbert.com
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Reverse Shot
• #2 Ten Best Films of 2025: Michael J. Anderson
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Poulomi Das: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Steven Mears: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Matene Toure: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Juan Camilo Velasquez: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Daniel Zheng: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Alex Davidson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Dario Llinares: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Leigh Singer: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Top Ten Films of 2025: Chaz Ebert: RogerEbert.com
• #2 Top Ten Films of 2025: Ally Johnson: RogerEbert.com
• #3 The Best Films of 2025: A.A. Dowd
• #3 The Ten Best Films of 2025: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
• #3 Best Movies of 2025: Jake Coyle: AP
• #3 The 10 Best Films of 2025: Christina Newland: The i Paper
• #3 Best Films of 2025: Passerby
• #3 The Best Movies of 2025: Ty Burr
• #3 Best Films of 2025: AJ Morris: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2025: Madeline Ostdick: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2025: Chris Shields: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2025: Amy Taubin: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2025: Maria Delgado: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2025: Nicolas Rapold: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Top Ten Films of 2025: Brendan Hodges: RogerEbert.com
• #3 Top Ten Films of 2025: Jourdain Searles: RogerEbert.com
• #4 Top Ten Films of 2025: Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room
• #4 10 Best Films of 2025: Anita Katz: Bay City News
• #4 Best Movies of 2025: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• #4 The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Peter Travers: The Travers Take
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 The 25 Best Films of 2025: Slant
• #4 Top Ten Films of 2025: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
• #4 The Best Films of 2025: Scott Tobias: The Reveal
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Kevin B. Lee: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Maggie Hennefeld: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Lisa Wong Macabasco: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: David Schwartz: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Abby Sun: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Carlos Aguilar: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Michael Atkinson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Lee Marshall: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Chloe Walker: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Billie Walker: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Top Ten Films of 2025: Clint Worthington: RogerEbert.com
• #4 Top Ten Films of 2025: Seongyong Cho: RogerEbert.com
• #4 Top Ten Films of 2025: Brandon Wilson: RogerEbert.com
• #5 Top 10 Films of 2025: Victor Morton
• #5 Best Films of 2025: Amy Taubin: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 The 25 Best Movies of 2025: IndieWire
• #5 The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Brian Truitt: USA Today
• #5 The 15 Best Films of 2025: Clarisse Loughrey: Independent
• #5 The 25 Best Films of 2025: The Playlist
• #5 Best Films of 2025: Julien Allen: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2025: Jonathan Romney: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2025: Brett Story: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2025: Soham Gadre: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2025: Katherine McLaughlin: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2025: Kate Stables: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 The 20 Best Movies of 2025: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• #6 The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Top Ten Films of 2025: Katie Rife: RogerEbert.com
• #6 Top Ten Films of 2025: Monica Castillo: RogerEbert.com
• #6 The Best Films of 2025: Keith Phipps: The Reveal
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Monica Castillo: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Edo Choi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Natalia Keogan: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Antoine Thirion: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Carlos Valladares: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Kevin B. Lee: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Matthew Taylor: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Top Ten Films of 2025: Jason Bailey: RogerEbert.com
• #6 Top Ten Films of 2025: Godfrey Cheshire: RogerEbert.com
• #6 Top Ten Films of 2025: Max Covill: RogerEbert.com
• #6 Top Ten Films of 2025: Paul Risker: RogerEbert.com
• #6 Top Ten Films of 2025: Peyton Robinson: RogerEbert.com
• #7 The Best Movies of 2025: Peter Debruge: Variety
• #7 Best Movies of 2025: Eric Hynes: Screen Slate
• #7 Best Films of 2025: Sarah Fensom: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2025: Abirami Logendran: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2025: Jamie Dunn: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2025: Ryan Swen: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #7 Top Ten Films of 2025: Peter Sobczynski: RogerEbert.com
• #8 The 25 Best Films of 2025: David Ehrlich
• #8 Best Movies of 2025: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• #8 Best Movies of 2025: Jon Frosch: Hollywood Reporter
• #8 Top 50 Films of 2025: Film Stage
• #8 Favorite Films of 2025: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine
• #8 The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Max Cea: Esquire
• #8 Best Movies of 2025: Screen Slate
• #9 The Best Movies of 2025: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
• #9 Top 20 Films of 2025: Bilge Ebiri: Slate: Movie Club
• #9 Best Films of 2025: Molly Haskell: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 The 50 Best Movies of 2025: Guardian
• #9 The 30 Best Films of 2025: Little White Lies
• #9 Best Films of 2025: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2025: Genevieve Yue: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2025: Molly Haskell: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #10 The Best Films of 2025: Justin Chang: New Yorker
• #10 Films of 2025: The Skinny
• #10 Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey
• #10 Best Films of 2025: Benoit Rouilly
• #10 Best Films of 2025: Inney Prakash: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #10 Best Films of 2025: Isabel Stevens: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #10 Best Films of 2025: Sophie Brown: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #11 25 Best Films of 2025: A.V. Club
• #6 Best Movies of 2025: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll Honorable mention
• #12 Best Films of 2025: Leonardo Goi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #12 Best Films of 2025: Jordan Raup: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #13 Best Films of 2025: Lucia Ahrensdorf: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #13 Best Films of 2025: Bedatri Datta Choudhury: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #13 Best Films of 2025: Gavin Smith: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #13 Best Films of 2025: Ryan Swen: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #14 15 Best Films of 2025: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel
• #14 Best Films of 2025: Jordan Mintzer: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #14 Best Films of 2025: Julian Ross: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #14 Best Films of 2025: Manu Yáñez-Murillo: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #15 Best Films of 2025: Michael Blair: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #16 Best Films of 2025: Nick Davis: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #18 The Best Movies of 2025: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
• #19 Best Films of 2025: In Review Online

• Best Films of 2025: Adam Shatz: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Top 10 Movies of 2025: Sam Adams: Slate
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Dana Stevens: Slate
• The Best Films of 2025: Sean Burns: WBUR
• Favorite Movies of 2025: Sarah Welch-Larson
• Films of the Year 2025: New Statesman
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Tomris Laffly: RogerEbert.com
• Best Films of 2025: Willow Catelyn Maclay: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2025: Michael Koresky: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Carlos Aguilar: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Rendy Jones: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Collin Souter: RogerEbert.com
• The 11 Best Movies of 2025: Vanity Fair
• Favorite Movies of 2025: Barack Obama
• Best Films of 2025: Fatoumata Bah: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2025: Jadie Stillwell: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2025: Spectrum Culture
• The Best Films of 2025: Economist
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Craig Lindsey: RogerEbert.com
• Best Films of 2025: Florence Almozini: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2025: Jed Rapfogel: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The Very Best Films of 2025: AnOther Magazine
• Best Films of 2025: Robert Daniels: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The Best Movies Of 2025: Uproxx
• The 25 Best Films of 2025: BBC: BBC Culture
• Best Movies of 2025: Scott Renshaw: Salt Lake City Weekly Places 11-15, alphabetical
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Nick Schager: Daily Beast Honorable mention
• Best Movies of 2025: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter Honorable mention
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Zachary Lee: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Chase Hutchinson: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
• Top 10 Films of 2025: Ryan Swen Not to discount these
• The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win Most Honorable Mentions