My Top 10 Films of 2025

Here they are, My Top 10 Films of 2025:

10. The Life of Chuck (dir. Mike Flanagan)

Where is your place in the grand scheme of things? What multitudes do you contain? This sweet, sad, and moving Stephen King adaptation confronts these lofty themes with unabashed sincerity.

9. Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo del Toro)

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein isn’t just alive; it has a soul.

8. Weapons (dir. Zach Cregger) 

In Weapons, not everything comes to the surface. And we don’t get every question answered. But that might be the scariest thing of all.

7. The Mastermind (dir. Kelly Reichardt)

Kelly Reichardt’s funniest film. A subversively quiet and radically minimal take on the heist genre.

6. The Secret Agent (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Wagner Moura is a revelation in this vivid, vibrant, and distinctively rendered political thriller.

5. Misericordia (dir. Alain Guiraudie)

A fruitful and peculiar suspense tale that expounds upon human nature while wrestling with the meaning of life itself.

4. Sinners (dir. Ryan Coogler)

Part blockbuster with the blues, part pulpy vampire flick, and part shoot-em up showdown, this genre remix emphatically stomps to its own beat.

3. The Phoenician Scheme (dir. Wes Anderson)

An industrialist-themed yarn that blitzes with style and rattles with hilarity. Here, we bear witness to an artist working at the height of their craft. It’s truly splendid cinema. 

2. Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie)

Immediately striking is this film’s lived-in atmosphere and Safdie’s portrayal of New York’s underbelly. It feels illegal. It feels like it’s out of code. You can practically taste the toxicity.

1. One Battle After Another (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

From its opening minutes, this thing ignites with the fury of a Molotov cocktail and maintains its propulsive energy and fist-raising power for the entire 162-minute duration. What makes the film feel so classic and so masterful is the fact that, no matter the decade of its release, it would still be relevant.