Year-End Lists

Lists

1. Best Films of 2025: Vadim Rizov: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
1. Top 10 Films of 2025: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
1. The Best Movies of 2025: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
1. Top Ten Films of 2025: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
2. Best Movies of 2025: Alissa Wilkinson: New York Times
2. Best Films of 2025: Reverse Shot
2. The Ten Best Films of 2025: RogerEbert.com
2. Top Ten Films of 2025: Katey Rich: Fighting in the War Room
2. Best Films of 2025: Mark Kermode
2. Top Ten Films of 2025: Robert Daniels: RogerEbert.com
2. Best Movies of 2025: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
2. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: David Sims: Atlantic
3. The Best Films of 2025: A.A. Dowd
3. The Ten Best Films of 2025: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
3. The Best Movies of 2025: Ty Burr
3. The 10 Best Films of 2025: Christina Newland: The i Paper
3. Best Movies of 2025: Jake Coyle: AP
3. Best Films of 2025: Passerby
4. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Peter Travers: The Travers Take
4. Top Ten Films of 2025: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
4. Best Movies of 2025: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
4. Best Films of 2025: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
4. The Best Films of 2025: Scott Tobias: The Reveal
4. 10 Best Films of 2025: Anita Katz: Bay City News
4. Top Ten Films of 2025: Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room
4. The 25 Best Films of 2025: Slant
5. The 15 Best Films of 2025: Clarisse Loughrey: Independent
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 25 Best Films of 2025: The Playlist
6. Best Movies of 2025: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
6. Top Ten Films of 2025: Monica Castillo: RogerEbert.com
6. Top Ten Films of 2025: Katie Rife: RogerEbert.com
6. The Best Films of 2025: Keith Phipps: The Reveal
6. The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
6. The 20 Best Movies of 2025: David Fear: Rolling Stone
7. The Best Movies of 2025: Peter Debruge: Variety
8. The 25 Best Films of 2025: David Ehrlich
8. Favorite Films of 2025: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine
8. Best Movies of 2025: Jon Frosch: Hollywood Reporter
8. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Max Cea: Esquire
8. Best Movies of 2025: Screen Slate
8. Best Movies of 2025: Lindsey Bahr: AP
8. Top 50 Films of 2025: Film Stage
9. The 50 Best Movies of 2025: Guardian
9. Best Films of 2025: Molly Haskell: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
9. The 30 Best Films of 2025: Little White Lies
9. Top 20 Films of 2025: Bilge Ebiri: Slate: Movie Club
9. The Best Movies of 2025: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
10. The Best Films of 2025: Justin Chang: New Yorker
10. Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey
10. Best Films of 2025: Benoit Rouilly
10. Films of 2025: The Skinny
11. 25 Best Films of 2025: A.V. Club
14. 15 Best Films of 2025: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel
18. The Best Movies of 2025: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
19. Best Films of 2025: In Review Online

• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Nick Schager: Daily Beast
• Top 10 Films of 2025: Ryan Swen
• The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
• Top 10 Movies of 2025: Sam Adams: Slate
• The Best Films of 2025: Economist
• Best Films of 2025: Florence Almozini: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Dana Stevens: Slate
• The 25 Best Films of 2025: BBC: BBC Culture
• Best Movies of 2025: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
• The 11 Best Movies of 2025: Vanity Fair
• The Best Movies Of 2025: Uproxx
• Favorite Movies of 2025: Barack Obama
• 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
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Craig Lindsey: RogerEbert.com
• Best Movies of 2025: Scott Renshaw: Salt Lake City Weekly
• Best Films of 2025: Spectrum Culture