The best movies of 2025
The top 3 according to 681 votes from people: One Battle After Another · It Was Just an Accident · Sinners. (Updated Apr 26, 2026.)
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.
Top 20
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1
One Battle After Another
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.
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It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi. A mechanic thinks he recognises the man who tortured him in prison; Palme d'Or at Cannes.
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Sinners
Ryan Coogler. Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers in 1930s Mississippi, blues and vampires; third in IndieWire's poll.
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The Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonça Filho. Wagner Moura on the run in 1977 Recife; Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes, Metascore 91.
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5
Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie. Timothée Chalamet as a 1950s table-tennis hustler; Metascore 89.
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Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier. A filmmaker father, his actress daughter and the family home in Oslo; Grand Prix at Cannes.
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7
No Other Choice
Park Chan-wook. A laid-off paper specialist decides to eliminate his rivals for a job; Metascore 86.
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8
Sorry, Baby
Eva Victor. A literature professor rebuilds her life over five years; a debut with a Metascore of 90.
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9
Train Dreams
Clint Bentley. Joel Edgerton as a railroad labourer in the early 20th-century American West, from Denis Johnson's novella.
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10
Sirāt
Oliver Laxe. A father looks for his daughter at raves in the Moroccan desert; Jury Prize at Cannes.
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11
Sound of Falling
Mascha Schilinski. Four girls in the same German farmhouse across a century; shared the Jury Prize at Cannes.
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12
Weapons
Zach Cregger. Seventeen children from the same class vanish at the same time one night.
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13
Resurrection
Bi Gan. A journey through the history of cinema in a future where people have stopped dreaming.
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14
Hamnet
Chloé Zhao. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes and William Shakespeare, from Maggie O'Farrell's novel; People's Choice Award at Toronto.
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15
Familiar Touch
Sarah Friedland. An elderly woman moves into assisted living as her memory fades; Metascore 89.
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16
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Rungano Nyoni. Family secrets surface during a funeral in Zambia; Metascore 87.
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17
Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro. Oscar Isaac as Victor and Jacob Elordi as the Creature in del Toro's long-dreamed adaptation.
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18
KPop Demon Hunters
Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. A K-pop girl group that hunts demons; it became Netflix's most-watched film ever.
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Caught by the Tides
Jia Zhang-ke. Twenty years of footage reshaped into the story of a couple in a changing China.
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Black Bag
Steven Soderbergh. Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies, one of them suspected of treason.
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Comments (2)
KPop Demon Hunters on a best-of list, love it. My kids watched it 40 times and I'm not even mad.
One Battle After Another at #1, PTA finally got his Oscar. Well deserved.