Top 10 Films of 2025

1. "One Battle After Another" (Paul Thomas Anderson, Warner)

2. "It Was Just An Accident" (Jafar Panahi, Iran)

3. "Weapons" (Zach Cregger, Warner)

4. "Left-Handed Girl" (Tsou Shih-Ching, Taiwan)

5. "Sentimental Value" (Joachim Trier, Norway)

6. "A House Of Dynamite" (Kathryn Bigelow, Netflix)

7. "Materialists" (Celine Song, A24)

8. "Honey Don't" (Ethan Coen, Focus)

9. "K-Pop Demon Hunters" (Maggie Khan, Chris Appelhans, Netflix)

10. "Frankenstein" (Guillermo del Toro, Netflix)

Other great films:

After The Hunt

Bugonia

Deux femmes en or (Canada)

Jay Kelly

Sinners

Train Dreams

Trois amies (France)

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "The Dead Dance" (Tim Burton, Lady Gaga)

2. "Tears" (Bardia Zeinali, Sabrina Carpenter)

3. "Fame Is A Gun" (Sean Price Williams, Addison Rae)

Other great music videos:

End Of The World

High Fashion

Top Commercial:

"A Smile In The Ritz Salty Club" (Ritz)

TV Top 10:

1. "MobLand" (Paramount)

2. "The Studio" (Apple)

3. "Adolescence" (Netflix, UK)

4. "The White Lotus: Season 3" (HBO)

5. "The Last Of Us: Season 2" (HBO)

6. "Landman: Season 2" (Taylor Sheridan, Paramount)

7. "Pluribus" (Apple)

8. "Aka Charlie Sheen" (Netflix)

9. "Dexter: Ressurection" (Showtime)

10. "Hacks: Season 4" (HBO)

Top VR film:

"Les Derniers remparts" (France)

Top Stand-Up Comedy Show:

"Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years" (Ben Tishler, Bill Burr)

Weak films of 2025:

Eddington

Elio

Heart Eyes

Mickey 17

The Phoenician Scheme

Weak TV shows:

Asura (Japan)

Dying For Sex

Top Musical of 2025

"K-Pop Demon Hunters" (Maggie Khan, Chris Appelhans, Netflix)

One Battle After Another (2025) *****

Paul Thomas Anderson's masterpiece. Incredibly entertaining. Superbly directed. Visually stunning. Profound, mesmerizing and provocative.

It Was Just An Accident (2025) *****

Jafar Panahi's greatest film, shot in secret in Iran, without a filming permit. It's a story of former political prisoners who face the question of whether to exact revenge on their tormentor. Gripping, suspenseful and constantly surprising.

Left-Handed Girl (2025) ****

Excellent film from Taiwan. Sean Baker edited it and co-wrote the script.

Weapons (2025) ****

Superlative horror movie about missing children. An intricate narrative structure, memorable characters and daring shifts in tone.

Train Dreams (2025) ***

A unique film. Beautiful and poetic, but also extremely sad.

Materialists (2025) ***

Excellent romantic comedy directed by Celine Song ("Past Lives"). Intelligent, surprising and sophisticated.

Jay Kelly (2025) ***

Oddball and eccentric, but also touching and deeply felt sort-of-comedy about a famous actor and the regrets of his life.

Sinners (2025) ***

Impressive film. It starts slow, but stick with it, because it becomes very good very quickly in the second half.

A House Of Dynamite (2025) ***

Way better than "Fail Safe" (1964), but nowhere near as good as "Dr Strangelove" (1964). A tense, edge-of-your-seat thriller with an ending that is both perfect and infuriating.

Bugonia (2025) ***

A crazed conspiracy theorist (Jesse Plemons) kidnaps a CEO of a pharmaceutical company (Emma Stone) and accuses her of being an alien from Outer Space.

Frankenstein (2025) ***

Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of the famous horror novel is uneven, but visually stunning. Set direction and cinematography are flawless. However, it's much too long, and a bit slow, especially in the second act.

Honey Don't (2025) ***

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K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025) ***

Terrific animated film directed by Maggie Khan and Chris Appelhans. A wild mix of showbiz musical, supernatural horror flick, action film extravaganza and wise-ass buddy comedy.

After The Hunt (2025) ***

Complex and ambiguous film about cancel culture and victimhood. Its radical determination to explore every possible shade of grey is definitely impressive, even if it's often maddeningly unclear what exactly has happened in this film, and what real-life events have inspired it.

Trois amies (2025) ***

An excellent French comedy of manners, about three female friends with differing philosophies about romantic relationships.

Sentimental Value (2025) ***

Interesting Norwegian film about a film director and his two daughters.

Deux femmes en or (2025) ***

Excellent Canadian film about two attractive housewives and their raging libidos. A clever and unapologetic look at female sexuality.

A Smile In The Ritz Salty Club (2025) ***

Very amusing Ritz commercial starring Michael Shannon and Aubrey Plaza.

Tears (2025) ***

Very sexy music video from Sabrina Carpenter, costarring Colman Domingo. Directed by Bardia Zeinali.