List · 20 films
Unbiased 2025 Top 20
The best of films that I watched in 2025 and that didn’t premiere in 2025 — recency bias be damned. Methodology: by star rating and editorialized within.
Films in this list
Ranked #1: Hundreds of Beavers
2022
Ranked #2: I'm Still Here
2024
Ranked #3: Nickel Boys
2024
Ranked #4: Incident
2023
Ranked #5: Purple Rain
1984
Ranked #6: Jaws
1975
Ranked #7: The Thing
1982
Ranked #8: No Other Land
2024
Ranked #9: The Brutalist
2024
Ranked #10: Princess Mononoke
1997
Ranked #11: Anima
2019
Ranked #12: Flow
2024
Ranked #13: I'm Not a Robot
2023
Ranked #14: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2004
Ranked #15: Ghost
1990
Ranked #16: Hard Truths
2024
Ranked #17: Presence
2024
Ranked #18: Better Man
2024
Ranked #19: Back to the Future
1985
Ranked #20: Strange Harvest
2024