Top 10 of 2025

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This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2025 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

  1. Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
  2. What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. After Dreaming (Christine Haroutounian)
  4. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)
  5. Kontinental ‘25 (Radu Jude)
  6. The Shipwrecked Triptych (Deniz Eroglu)
  7. Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (Joel Alfonso Vargas)
  8. Paul (Denis Côté)
  9. John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens)
  10. Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)

 

Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.)

  1. Baby Invasion (2024, Harmony Korine)
  2. Misericordia (2024, Alain Guiraudie)
  3. Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
  4. About Thirty (2023, Martín Shanly)
  5. The Shrouds (2024, David Cronenberg)
  6. What Does That Nature Say to You (2025, Hong Sang-soo)
  7. An Evening Song (for three voices) (2023, Graham Swon)
  8. Samsara (2023, Lois Patiño)
  9. By the Stream (2024, Hong Sang-soo)
  10. The Empire (2024, Bruno Dumont)

 

My Top 10 “Oldies” (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)

  1. Le boucher (1970, Claude Chabrol)
  2. They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
  3. Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski)
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Other 2025 films I’ve seen

  • BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph) – 5.4
  • 80+ (Želimir Žilnik) – 5.4
  • The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović) – 5.3
  • Canone effimero (Gianluca De Serio) – 5.3
  • The Incredible Snow Woman (Sébastien Betbeder) – 5.2
  • Little Trouble Girls (Urska Dukic) – 5.1
  • little boy (James Benning) – 5.0
  • Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho) – 4.9
  • Timestamp (Kateryna Gornostai) – 4.9
  • The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro) – 4.9
  • Punku (Juan Daniel Fernández Molero) – 4.9
  • Ari (Léonor Serraille) – 4.8
  • Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry) – 4.8
  • Wolf Man (Leigh Whannell) – 4.7
  • Dreams (Michel Franco) – 4.6
  • Ariel (Lois Patiño) – 4.5
  • Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke) – 4.5
  • Eel (Chu Chun-Teng) – 4.3
  • Girls on Wire (Vivian Qu) – 3.8
  • Evidence (Lee Anne Schmitt) – 3.6
  • The Light (Tom Tykwer) – 3.3
  • Where the Night Stands Still (Liryc Dela Cruz) – 3.1
  • Hot Milk (Rebecca Lenkiewicz) – 2.7
  • If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein) – 2.4