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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.
- Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
- Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
- Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
- Yes (Nadav Lapid)
- What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)
- Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
- Final Destination Bloodlines (Zach Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein)
- The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
- Dracula (Radu Jude)
- The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.)
- Baby Invasion (2024, Harmony Korine)
- Misericordia (2024, Alain Guiraudie)
- Afternoons of Solitude (2024, Albert Serra)
- DIRECT ACTION (2024, Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau)
- Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
- About Thirty (2023, Martín Shanly)
- The Shrouds (2024, David Cronenberg)
- What Does That Nature Say to You (2025, Hong Sang-soo)
- Father Mother Sister Brother (2025, Jim Jarmusch)
- An Evening Song (for three voices) (2023, Graham Swon)
My Top 10 “Oldies” (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)
- The Store (1983, Frederick Wiseman)
- Le boucher (1970, Claude Chabrol)
- They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
- Model (1980, Frederick Wiseman)
- Zoo (1993, Frederick Wiseman)
- Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski)
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Other 2025 films I’ve seen
- Le Lac (Fabrice Aragno) – 6.3
- Sirât (Oliver Laxe) – 6.2
- Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari) – 6.2
- Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay) – 6.2
- After Dreaming (Christine Haroutounian) – 6.1
- The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie) – 6.1
- Case 137 (Dominik Moll) – 6.1
- Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin) – 6.0
- Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo) – 6.0
- Kontinental ‘25 (Radu Jude) – 5.9
- Bouchra (Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani) – 5.9
- The Shipwrecked Triptych (Deniz Eroglu) – 5.9
- Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (Joel Alfonso Vargas) – 5.9
- Pillion (Harry Lighton) – 5.9
- Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes (Gabriel Azorín) – 5.8
- Gavagai (Ulrich Köhler) – 5.8
- With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari) – 5.8
- Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.7
- Paul (Denis Côté) – 5.7
- Levers (Rhayne Vermette) – 5.6
- Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater) – 5.6
- One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson) – 5.6
- Maddie’s Secret (John Early) – 5.6
- Balearic (Ion de Sosa) – 5.6
- The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt) – 5.6
- Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi) – 5.6
- Powwow People (Sky Hopinka) – 5.6
- John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens) – 5.6
- Copper (Nicolás Pereda) – 5.5
- The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler) – 5.5
- The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai) – 5.5
- Blue Moon (Richard Linklater) – 5.5
- Magellan (Lav Diaz) – 5.4
- Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel) – 5.4
- BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph) – 5.4
- Two Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.4
- Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi) – 5.4
- Sinners (Ryan Coogler) – 5.4
- 80+ (Želimir Žilnik) – 5.4
- Eddington (Ari Aster) – 5.3
- Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura) – 5.3
- After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino) – 5.3
- Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski) – 5.3
- I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho) – 5.3
- Romeria (Carla Simón) – 5.3
- The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović) – 5.3
- Drunken Noodles (Lucio Castro) – 5.3
- Canone effimero (Gianluca De Serio) – 5.3
- Enzo (Robin Campillo) – 5.2
- The Fence (Claire Denis) – 5.2
- The Incredible Snow Woman (Sébastien Betbeder) – 5.2
- Escape (Masao Adachi) – 5.2
- Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee) – 5.1
- A Balcony in Limoges (Jérôme Reybaud) – 5.1
- Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant) – 5.1
- Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou) – 5.1
- Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi) – 5.1
- Little Trouble Girls (Urska Dukic) – 5.1
- Phantoms of July (Julian Radlmaier) – 5.1
- The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho) – 5.0
- Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson) – 5.0
- The Plant from the Canaries (Ruan Lan-Xi) – 5.0
- little boy (James Benning) – 5.0
- Hair, Paper, Water… (Nicolas Graux & Trương Minh Quý) – 5.0
- Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho) – 4.9
- Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie) – 4.9
- Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs) – 4.9
- Hen (György Pálfi) – 4.9
- Resurrection (Bi Gan) – 4.9
- No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook) – 4.9
- Timestamp (Kateryna Gornostai) – 4.9
- The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro) – 4.9
- Punku (Juan Daniel Fernández Molero) – 4.9
- Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold) – 4.8
- Ari (Léonor Serraille) – 4.8
- Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry) – 4.8
- Tales of the Wounded Land (Abbas Fahdel) – 4.7
- Wolf Man (Leigh Whannell) – 4.7
- Urchin (Harris Dickinson) – 4.7
- Dreams (Michel Franco) – 4.6
- Woman and Child (Saeed Roustaee) – 4.6
- Leave One Day (Amelie Bonnin) – 4.6
- Ariel (Lois Patiño) – 4.5
- The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson) – 4.5
- Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke) – 4.5
- The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro) – 4.5
- Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus) – 4.4
- Late Fame (Kent Jones) – 4.4
- Desire Lines (Dane Komljen) – 4.4
- It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi) – 4.3
- Orphan (László Nemes) – 4.3
- Mosquitoes (Valentina Bertani & Nicole Bertani) – 4.3
- Eel (Chu Chun-Teng) – 4.3
- Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 4.2
- Duse (Pietro Marcello) – 4.2
- White Snail (Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter) – 4.2
- Train Dreams (Clint Bentley) – 4.2
- No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance (Crispin Hellion Glover) – 4.1
- The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas) – 4.1
- A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski) – 4.1
- The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi) – 4.0
- The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania) – 4.0
- Bono: Stories of Surrender (Immersive) (Andrew Dominik) – 3.9
- To the Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych) – 3.8
- Girls on Wire (Vivian Qu) – 3.8
- Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi) – 3.7
- The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold) – 3.6
- The Plague (Charlie Polinger) – 3.6
- Evidence (Lee Anne Schmitt) – 3.6
- Alpha (Julia Ducournau) – 3.4
- Back Home (Tsai Ming-liang) – 3.4
- Tron: Ares (Joachim Rønning) – 3.3
- Mare’s Nest (Ben Rivers) – 3.3
- The Light (Tom Tykwer) – 3.3
- Where the Night Stands Still (Liryc Dela Cruz) – 3.1
- Barrio Triste (STILLZ) – 3.0
- Her Will Be Done (Julia Kowalski) – 2.9
- Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) – 2.8
- Hot Milk (Rebecca Lenkiewicz) – 2.7
- If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein) – 2.4