MY TOP 10 FILMS OF 2025 (AND A BUNCH OF HONORABLE MENTIONS)

There are still a few notable movies I haven’t seen (TRAIN DREAMS, WAKE UP DEAD MAN, THE SECRET AGENT and HIGHEST 2 LOWEST being some chief blind spots), but here are my Top 10 Favorite Films of 2025 (and a crazy amount of honorable mentions)!

  1. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson; inspired by the novel VINELAND by Thomas Pynchon)

2. FRIENDSHIP (written and directed by Andrew DeYoung)

3. SENTIMENTAL VALUE (written and directed by Joachim Trier)

4. SINNERS (written and directed by Ryan Coogler)

5. SORRY, BABY (written and directed by Eva Victor)

6. WEAPONS (written and directed by Zach Cregger)

7. SUPERMAN (written and directed by James Gunn)

8. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (written and directed by Jafar Panahi)

9. DIE MY LOVE (directed by Lynne Ramsay; screenplay by Enda Walsh & Lynne Ramsay and Alice Birch; based on the novel by Ariana Harwicz)

10. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans; story by Maggie Kang; screenplay by Dayna Jiminez, Hannah McMechan, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans)

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Materialists, No Other Choice, Is This Thing On?, Marty Supreme, Hamnet, Jay Kelly, Thunderbolts*, Eddington, Mickey 17, The Naked Gun, Frankenstein, The Phoenician Scheme, F1, Zootopia 2, The Mastermind, Black Bag, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Life of Chuck

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Zach Hammill