US EditionThe Best Films of 2025: ‘Hamnet,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ Lead List
Critics praised 2025's films for artistic merit and tackling social issues including tyranny, abortion, and racial politics, featuring diverse global settings and notable debuts.
- This year, critics included One Battle After Another as a standout action comedy‑thriller, relentlessly in motion, while Pillion is the sole debut earning a place on this year's list.
- Amid censorship and political repression, several films confront tyranny and the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests, while April follows Nina , an obstetrician under investigation in Georgia where abortions are legal up to 12 weeks.
- Adapting Adam Mars‑Jones's novella, the Box Hill film ages its protagonists and sets them in the present, while narratives range from a sub/dom relationship between Colin and Ray to a 1970s art‑theft tale of four paintings.
- Jafar Panahi's one-month Evin Prison sentence underscores risks filmmakers face, while It Was Just an Accident culminated in a new prison sentence on 2 December.
- Critics note the list's range, from sharp social critiques to universal family dramas, with Sentimental Value probing U.S. racial politics and Marianne Jean‑Baptiste delivering a committed portrayal of Pansy .
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The big screen took us everywhere from the Emerald City of Oz to the sparkling stage of a HUNTR/X concert this year. Here's a look at the films that defined 2025: It was the romantic comedy-drama film Anora that took many of the top prizes at the Oscars this year. The independent film that was directed, edited, produced and written by Sean Baker won five statues at the 97th Academy Awards, including best picture. Brady Corbet's epic period drama…
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