RogerEbert.com's 10 Best films of 2025

[todd-parker]

A couple of surprises on here, especially at the No. 5 spot. I liked that film but had not been seeing it getting a lot of love elsewhere.

https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the ... ms-of-2025

Unsurprisingly, 'One Battle After Another' takes the top spot.

[MikoTython]

Been in a super busy period all Fall, but during the break, I plan to see a bunch of these. Seems like a great year for film. Have to say, though, that Eephus was a boring film that tried very hard to be something more. Between this list and Vanity Fair (not, interestingly, a whole lot of cross-over betwixt), plenty of high-quality film oppos.

[Dicktar2023]

Paul Thomas Anderson’s action-odyssey “One Battle After Another” is a near-trademark period piece of his filmography, but distinguishes itself from the rest on account of its hawk-eyed vision of our current moment. This film is not Anderson’s first foray into politics, but while films like “The Master” and “There Will Be Blood” tackle post-war ennui and capitalist critique, respectively, they do so in the periphery. Not since the utterly delightful and convoluted “Inherent Vice” (also sourced from a novel by Thomas Pynchon), has Anderson so expertly navigated a laundry list of fully realized, plot-driven characters (none of them frivolous) as they bound and fumble through a hyper-political landscape buoyed by covert establishments, oppression, and prejudice.

This is clearly AI-generated prose. The only human who writes like this is Ed Gonzalez, and he works at Slate.

[todd-parker]

A couple of surprises on here, especially at the No. 5 spot. I liked that film but had not been seeing it getting a lot of love elsewhere.

https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the ... ms-of-2025

Unsurprisingly, 'One Battle After Another' takes the top spot.

As an addition, they provided the Top 10 lists from each of the critics from Rogerebert.com:

https://www.rogerebert.com/features/two ... ns-of-2025

Compare your own list to theirs and you'll know who to follow in the future for recommendations.