Best Films of 2025: Our Individual Top 10 Lists

The writers at Loud And Clear Reviews share their individual top 10 lists with their picks for the best films of 2025; here are 83 movies to watch that all came out this year!

As the year comes to an end, let’s look back at the best films of 2025! In this year’s individual top 10 lists, the team at Loud And Clear Reviews shares their rankings, with 83 recommendations for you to watch, including some of 2025’s most acclaimed releases and a lot of lesser known hidden gems to check out! Here are individual top 10 lists from 28 of our writers, ranked in alphabetical order. Come back on December 29 for the site’s list of best movies of the year!

Please note: These individual top 10 lists only include films that have had their first U.S. or U.K. release in the year 2025, not counting film festival debuts. Not all of our critics were able to see all of this year’s releases.

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Arthur Goyaz

1. Eephus
2. Blue Moon
3. One Battle After Another
4. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
5. The Secret Agent
6. Nouvelle Vague
7. Pavements
8. Weapons
9. Eddington
10. Final Destination: Bloodlines

Bethany Lola

1. Train Dreams
2. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
3. Is This Thing On?
4. Blue Moon
5. Sorry, Baby
6. Jay Kelly
7. Nouvelle Vague
8. Bring Them Down
9. Twinless
10. Pillion

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Branyan Towe

1. Sinners
2. Sorry, Baby
3. One Battle After Another
4. Marty Supreme
5. Avatar: Fire and Ash
6. Frankenstein
7. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
8. Jay Kelly
9. Superman
10. 28 Years Later

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Carmen Paddock

1. One Battle After Another
2. 28 Years Later
3. Hedda
4. The Mastermind
5. Friendship

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Clint Leavitt

1. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2. One Battle After Another
3. Sinners
4. Train Dreams
5. 28 Years Later
6. The Phoenician Scheme
7. Black Bag
8. Weapons
9. Caught Stealing
10. Zootopia 2

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Clotilde Chinnici

1. The Voice of Hind Rajab
2. Frankenstein
3. Rental Family
4. Nouvelle Vague
5. Jay Kelly
6. The Testament of Ann Lee
7. Sinners
8. It Was Just An Accident
9. Hamnet
10. Blue Moon

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Daniel Allen

1. One Battle After Another
2. Universal Language
3. Eephus
4. My Father’s Shadow
5. Sentimental Value
6. Grand Theft Hamlet
7. Sorry, Baby
8. April
9. Hamnet
10. Familiar Touch

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Dave Giannini

1. Frankenstein
2. One Battle After Another
3. Marty Supreme
4. Sinners
5. The Secret Agent
6. It Was Just An Accident
7. Sorry, Baby
8. Sentimental Value
9. Die My Love
10. No Other Choice

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Edgar Ortega

1. Sinners
2. Marty Supreme
3. One Battle After Another
4. Is This Thing On?
5. 28 Years Later
6. Sentimental Value
7. No Other Choice
8. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
9. Jay Kelly
10. The Chronology of Water

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Emma Vine

1. No Other Choice
2. The Secret Agent
3. It Was Just An Accident
4. Sentimental Value
5. Lurker
6. Sinners
7. Sorry, Baby
8. Marty Supreme
9. Train Dreams
10. Frankenstein

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Hayley Croke

1. Die My Love
2. Pillion
3. Sentimental Value
4. Frankenstein
5. Marty Supreme
6. Hamnet
7. One Battle After Another
8. Afternoons of Solitude
9. Nouvelle Vague
10. Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted

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Héctor A. González

The following list is unranked:

• Afternoons of Solitude
• Alpha
• Caught by the Tides
• Father Mother Sister Brother
• Grand Tour
• The Hyperboreans (Los Hiperboreos)
• The Ice Tower
• Resurrection
• The Shrouds
• Sound of Falling

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Isabella Liistro

1. The Ugly Stepsister
2. One Battle After Another
3. 28 Years Later
4. Sinners
5. Bring Her Back
6. Weapons
7. Frankenstein
8. The Long Walk
9. Caught Stealing
10. Wicked: For Good

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Jack Walters

1. Sinners
2. One Battle After Another
3. No Other Choice
4. The Voice of Hind Rajab
5. Weapons
6. The Ballad of Wallis Island
7. Hamnet
8. Superman
9. Sorry, Baby
10. Bugonia

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Joe Botten

1. Train Dreams
2. The Testament of Ann Lee
3. Frankenstein
4. Sinners
5. Song Sung Blue
6. Sentimental Value
7. Sirāt
8. Weapons
9. A Nice Indian Boy
10. Friendship

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Joe Tomastik

1. The Life of Chuck
2. Sinners
3. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
4. The Long Walk
5. Hamnet
6. The Running Man
7. Highest 2 Lowest
8. Eternity
9. Bring Her Back
10. Splitsville

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Jordon Searle

1. Marty Supreme
2. One Battle After Another
3. Sirāt
4. Sinners
5. Caught Stealing
6. It was Just an Accident
7. Bring Her Back
8. Twinless
9. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
10. Train Dreams

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Joshua Stevens

1. One Battle After Another
2. Sentimental Value
3. Eddington
4. Weapons
5. Marty Supreme
6. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
7. Frankenstein
8. Bugonia
9. The Phoenician Scheme
10. Friendship

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Louis Roberts

1. Sentimental Value
2. The Secret Agent
3. It Was Just An Accident
4. One Battle After Another
5. Blue Moon
6. The Love That Remains
7. Sinners
8. Misericordia
9. Peter Hujar’s Day
10. Apocalypse in the Tropics

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Maxance Vincent

1. Marty Supreme
2. Avatar: Fire and Ash
3. F1
4. Sentimental Value
5. Reflection in a Dead Diamond
6. The Voice of Hind Rajab
7. No Other Choice
8. The Secret Agent
9. It Was Just an Accident
10. Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc

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Michael Carvelli

1. One Battle After Another
2. Sinners
3. Train Dreams
4. Weapons
5. 28 Years Later
6. Jay Kelly
7. Eephus
8. Sorry, Baby
9. Eddington
10. The Phoenician Scheme

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Philip Bagnall

1. Sentimental Value
2. One Battle After Another
3. Marty Supreme
4. The Secret Agent
5. Friendship
6. No Other Choice 
7. Sound of Falling
8. Black Bag
9. Eephus
10. Sirāt

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Roberto Tyler Ortiz

1. One Battle After Another
2. Sentimental Value
3. Jay Kelly
4. The Testament of Ann Lee
5. The Secret Agent
6. Marty Supreme
7. Train Dreams
8. Sinners
9. Kokuho
10. It Was Just An Accident

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Scott Wilson

1. Dreams (Sex Love)
2. Sinners
3. Sentimental Value
4. Frankenstein
5. One Battle After Another
6. The Ballad of Wallis Island
7. The Kingdom
8. Blue Moon
9. Weapons
10. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    
    
    

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Sebastian Zavala

1. One Battle After Another
2. Sinners
3. 28 Years Later
4. Black Bag
5. Hamnet
6. Sentimental Value
7. Superman
8. The Threesome
9. It Was Just an Accident
10. Sirāt

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Serena Seghedoni

1. One Battle After Another
2. The Secret Agent
3. Sirāt
4. Marty Supreme
5. Jay Kelly
6. Rental Family
7. Bugonia
8. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
9. My Father’s Shadow
10. A House of Dynamite

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Wesley Hunt

1. Sinners
2. K-Pop Demon Hunters
3. Superman
4. Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc
5. Zootopia 2
6. Ne Zha II
7. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
8. Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing
9. The Accountant 2
10. The SpongeBob Movie: The Search for Squarepants

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William Stottor

1. Resurrection
2. One Battle After Another
3. It Was Just An Accident
4. The Ballad of Wallis Island
5. No Other Choice
6. April
7. Weapons
8. My Father’s Shadow
9. Sinners
10. Sentimental Value

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