# The best movies of 2025

The 2025 films that topped Metacritic's best-reviewed ranking and IndieWire's poll of 148 critics, plus the year's festival winners and the crowd-pleasers critics also loved.

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- Feb 6, 2026 · Oliver E.
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## Top 20

1. **One Battle After Another** (57 · ▲62 ▼5) — Paul Thomas Anderson. Leonardo DiCaprio as an ex-revolutionary protecting his daughter, loosely based on Pynchon's Vineland; Metacritic's film of the year (95) and IndieWire's poll winner.
2. **It Was Just an Accident** (44 · ▲50 ▼6) — Jafar Panahi. A mechanic thinks he recognises the man who tortured him in prison; Palme d'Or at Cannes.
3. **Sinners** (40 · ▲43 ▼3) — Ryan Coogler. Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers in 1930s Mississippi, blues and vampires; third in IndieWire's poll.
4. **The Secret Agent** (39 · ▲43 ▼4) — Kleber Mendonça Filho. Wagner Moura on the run in 1977 Recife; Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes, Metascore 91.
5. **Marty Supreme** (39 · ▲43 ▼4) — Josh Safdie. Timothée Chalamet as a 1950s table-tennis hustler; Metascore 89.
6. **Sentimental Value** (31 · ▲34 ▼3) — Joachim Trier. A filmmaker father, his actress daughter and the family home in Oslo; Grand Prix at Cannes.
7. **No Other Choice** (25 · ▲28 ▼3) — Park Chan-wook. A laid-off paper specialist decides to eliminate his rivals for a job; Metascore 86.
8. **Sorry, Baby** (25 · ▲26 ▼1) — Eva Victor. A literature professor rebuilds her life over five years; a debut with a Metascore of 90.
9. **Train Dreams** (24 · ▲31 ▼7) — Clint Bentley. Joel Edgerton as a railroad labourer in the early 20th-century American West, from Denis Johnson's novella.
10. **Sirāt** (23 · ▲27 ▼4) — Oliver Laxe. A father looks for his daughter at raves in the Moroccan desert; Jury Prize at Cannes.
11. **Sound of Falling** (22 · ▲27 ▼5) — Mascha Schilinski. Four girls in the same German farmhouse across a century; shared the Jury Prize at Cannes.
12. **Weapons** (22 · ▲25 ▼3) — Zach Cregger. Seventeen children from the same class vanish at the same time one night.
13. **Resurrection** (20 · ▲23 ▼3) — Bi Gan. A journey through the history of cinema in a future where people have stopped dreaming.
14. **Hamnet** (19 · ▲24 ▼5) — Chloé Zhao. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes and William Shakespeare, from Maggie O'Farrell's novel; People's Choice Award at Toronto.
15. **Familiar Touch** (19 · ▲20 ▼1) — Sarah Friedland. An elderly woman moves into assisted living as her memory fades; Metascore 89.
16. **On Becoming a Guinea Fowl** (15 · ▲21 ▼6) — Rungano Nyoni. Family secrets surface during a funeral in Zambia; Metascore 87.
17. **Frankenstein** (14 · ▲18 ▼4) — Guillermo del Toro. Oscar Isaac as Victor and Jacob Elordi as the Creature in del Toro's long-dreamed adaptation.
18. **KPop Demon Hunters** (14 · ▲18 ▼4) — Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. A K-pop girl group that hunts demons; it became Netflix's most-watched film ever.
19. **Caught by the Tides** (13 · ▲19 ▼6) — Jia Zhang-ke. Twenty years of footage reshaped into the story of a couple in a changing China.
20. **Black Bag** (6 · ▲14 ▼8) — Steven Soderbergh. Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies, one of them suspected of treason.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.