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Average Movie review score: 62
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Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
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  1. Blue Heron
    An obvious point of reference is Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin – and Lionel Shriver’s source novel – which charted the slow descent into despair for the parents of a troubled child. Blue Heron is a gentler, kinder film, introspectively exploring the nature of memory and the idea that trauma twists and manipulates it like heat warping a strip of celluloid.
  2. jackass: best and last
    Montages set to Holding out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler and My Way by Frank Sinatra bookend the whole bonanza. You’ve gotta have balls and heart for these torch songs to land. Jackass: Best and Last has both – and isn’t afraid to show how they hurt.
  3. The Last Viking
    Warmth, empathy and severed fingers in the same film? Scandi noir is back.
  4. Nino
    Spiced up with some wry wit, cool music moments (Foals, Fontaines DC), a memorable cameo from Mathieu Amalric, and a touching-sexy use of Anaïs Nin erotica, this one’s a real keeper.
  5. Leviticus
    By stripping away anything even remotely extraneous, [Chiarella's] achieved a palpable sense of gothic anguish. And by casting his leads so perfectly, he’s also made one of the most touching romances of the year.
  6. Toy Story 5
    The message of finding balance between analogue and digital, old-school toys and tech, may seem woolly to some. But balance feels like the solution to this 21st century parental quandary – and maybe to Hollywood’s legacy sequel problem: play to your old strengths, but have timely purpose in doing so. Toy Story 5 strikes that balance nicely.
  7. The Death of Robin Hood
    Bold, brutal yet surprisingly sensitive, it’s about as far away from Errol Flynn’s Technicolor tights or Kevin Costner’s mullet as you can imagine.
  8. Rose
    Revered Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki adheres to the concept of ‘Ma’, or intentional emptiness. Likewise, Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer’s equal-parts effervescent and unsettling third feature, Rose, sings with thoughtful silence and enriching stillness.
  9. Gentle Monster
    Kreutzer threads a fine needle through difficult material in a film that, even if it occasionally pulls its punches, will niggle on in your mind.
  10. The Invite
    This is a real return to form from Wilde, who finds her Booksmart groove again after the misstep of Don’t Worry Darling. Cue it up and get the neighbours round. Or not.
  11. Erupcja
    At a slight 71 minutes, it nevertheless manages to be an engaging misadventure with a wanderlust spirit, replete with a jolly voiceover narration from Jacek Zubiel, constantly reminding us life is one big joke.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Masters of the Universe
    Where other reboots lean into dour origin stories, this one is as brightly coloured as a bowl of e-numbered breakfast cereal.
  13. Backrooms
    Backrooms is hard not to recommend as a genuinely surreal horror experience. It has shades of the two Davids, Lynch and Cronenberg, but with its horrifically rendered malformations, both architectural and organic, it also feels like a commentary on the risible rise of AI slop art.
  14. Pressure
    Pressure is less of a traditional war flick than a satisfying chamber piece about how people use and communicate information when the stakes are sky high and groupthink is kicking in.
  15. The End of It
    It’s a striking debut from writer-director Maria Martinez Bayona with a fearless performance from Hall, as Claire rebels against convention and reflects on her life.
  16. Moulin
    Director László Nemes (Son of Saul) returns to World War II to force two real-life foes – French Resistance chief Jean Moulin and Nazi interrogator Klaus Barbie – into a grim dance macabre in this elegant and viscerally intense wartime thriller.
  17. Minotaur
    Zvyagintsev has made another remarkable film full of moral clarity that will get up the nose of all the right people. He may just be the greatest Russian filmmaker since Tarkovsky, and he’s definitely the ballsiest.
  18. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
    Overall, though, this is a timely drama from a director with a growing canon of eloquent humanist work – a melancholy torch song to the stories that play out beneath our changing skylines.
  19. Bitter Christmas
    Bitter Christmas finds the Spaniard at his most raw and introspective – looking inwards and not entirely enjoying what he finds.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finding Emily
    Alicia MacDonald’s Finding Emily is a charming and heartfelt romcom that explores what happens when the ‘what if?’ goes too far.
  21. The Beloved
    The Beloved is a fabulous film about filmmaking, and an astute and hard-hitting one about family dynamics. It’s also a great argument that the two should be kept apart at all times.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All of a Sudden
    At heart, it is about the importance of nurturing relationships, an ode to decent people doing the best they can for others.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Romería
    It’s a bold tilt into magical realism, but the effect is never jarring – rather, it’s a moving capstone to a film which argues that the act of remembering is itself a form of magic.
  24. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
    Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a meta horror-comedy and a whip-smart entertainment industry satire. Still, on a deeper level, in a hole at the bottom of its lake, is a hard-won sexual awakening.
  25. Fatherland
    Fatherland is an elegant, engrossing film; chilly at times, but also poignant as repressed feelings finally bubble to the surface. This is another expansive, enriching work from a modern master.
  26. Obsession
    Perhaps it isn’t such a terrible thing to remind us that this is, essentially, just a dark exercise in genre: a romcom gone horribly, upsettingly wrong. In this sense – and we suspect Barker would take this as a huge compliment – Obsession is the worst date movie imaginable.
  27. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    Apart from the confetti-cannon finale, this isn’t the hackneyed stereoscopic where things burst through the screen, but an immersive front row and on-stage spot at Billie Eilish’s 2025 world tour.
  28. The Devil Wears Prada 2
    The Devil Wears Prada 2 is one of those nice surprises, a so-called legacy sequel made with love and executed with flair. Think Top Gun: Maverick with better hats.
  29. Kim Novak's Vertigo
    The timelines fuzzy (it’s difficult to discern when she actually left movies behind) and other personal details are scant, but what shines through is the obvious affection between interviewer and subject. It’s a rapport that engenders an engrossing, conversational tribute to a mostly unsung great.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Normal
    Admittedly, the dialogue could be sharper – a few too many zingers zonk out – but Normal goes about its carnage with such sincerity, it’s impossible to resist.
  31. Rose of Nevada
    Eerie yet entertaining, it’s Jenkin’s most accessible film so far, while remaining anchored to his core Cornish principles.
  32. The Christophers
    It’s not a perfect movie, but it’s also never, as Lori grudgingly notes about Julian’s work, uninteresting. And in this cultural moment, that’s an authentic win.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kokuho
    While it would be interesting to see a film about a woman trying to break kabuki’s glass ceiling, part of Kokuho’s charm is that it celebrates the art form as it is, not as it might be. It’s a wonderful demystification of a mysterious art form.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Redoubt
    Inspired by true events, it’s a story of fruitless obsession ​that Werner Herzog must be kicking himself for not discovering first.
  35. La Grazia
    Sorrentino explores these heavyweight themes with his usual wit and high style – as well as a standout soundtrack of haunting classic cues and Eurodance bangers. Surreal, comedic touches also prick the pomposity of La Grazia’s cloistered world.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Splitsville
    What makes Splitsville stand out? Simply put, it’s goddamn hilarious.
  37. Two Prosecutors
    A slow cinema treat, Two Prosecutors rewards patience, with endless waiting rooms and antechambers both a limbo state and a last-chance saloon for Kornyev. It’s a haunting, mesmerising, pessimistic piece of work.
  38. The Love That Remains
    The symbolism is lightly worn here in a gently observational film that’s underpinned with humanism and compassion.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Resurrection
    Cinema isn't just a medium here, it's a healing balm, able to save the Deliriant’s tormented soul by exorcising his darkest impulses and replacing them with moments of sheer filmic wonder.
  40. Project Hail Mary
    With Gosling and Hüller to the fore, Lord and Miller have delivered a cosmic adventure with hope in its heart and a twinkle in its eye.
  41. Queen at Sea
    There are no easy answers in this raw but deeply empathetic film.
  42. The Bride!
    There’s a lot going on here: you never quite know what Maggie Gyllenhaal is going to throw into the pot next, but it’s always visually exciting and often funny.
  43. Hoppers
    Smart storytelling and snappy editing elevate the jokes and enrich the emotions.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Testament of Ann Lee
    A cradle-to-grave portrait of Ann Lee, the founder of the Christian sect known as the Shakers, the film is, at turns, completely stunning and utterly baffling. At its most successful, though, it doesn’t just depict ecclesiastical fervor – it sweeps you up in it.
  45. Yellow Letters
    As this tight-knit clan frays in the face of this vilification, they listen to one another less and less. And in that sense, it’s very much a story for our times.
  46. Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
    If, like Alan Partridge, you believe that Wings were ‘the band The Beatles could have been’, Morgan Neville’s propulsively upbeat music doc is a total treat.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sound of Falling
    It’s a cliché to say that a film will stay with you long after you leave the cinema. This one could haunt you to the grave.
  48. The Moment
    A blistering take-down of the social media-driven celebrity culture, The Moment combines the anxiety-inducing mayhem of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and the omnishambles clusterfuck of The Thick of It. It works because the satire’s coming from inside the house.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
    It all makes for a joyous, energetic and inclusive experience – one that will have you singing Elvis on repeat, and demanding more.
  50. Rosebush Pruning
    Rosebush Pruning is a fabulous feast for the eyes and ears – and those who like their cinema deliriously queer.
  51. Crime 101
    It’s refreshing to see a grown-up big-screen thriller this well crafted – and one that cares for its grounded characters and their predicaments. If it comes off the road once or twice, it’s still well worth the ride.
  52. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
    Because the movie’s on-the-fly style is as scruffy as its protagonists, it’s easy to underestimate the intelligence and artistry it takes to make something so silly.
  53. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
    The animation initially looks like something produced on an early Nintendo console, but what it lacks in finesse it more than makes up for in feeling. It makes sense of how a small child sees the world, saturated and magical but not yet subtly detailed.
  54. Is This Thing On?
    Rather than a bruising marital wipeout drama, Is This Thing On? is a film about how new purpose and a new tribe can help you re-evaluate what was there all along (the title, of course, refers to the marriage as well as the mic). It might make you think about relationships differently; it probably won’t make you want to take up stand-up.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Josephine
    A difficult and, at times, harrowing watch about an important subject, de Araújo’s unflinching eye and great care has a tonal precision the gravity of the events shown warrant.
  56. Send Help
    Happily, Send Help is both a return to the world of horror and a major return to form for the Evil Dead man, who’s been waylaid with bland franchise fare in recent years.
  57. Saipan
    Finally, someone has returned to The Damned United’s cunning formula for a good football movie: don’t show any football.
  58. I Swear
    Empathetic, funny and myth-busting – there are 300,000 children and adults living with TS in the UK alone whose condition will be better understood for this film – it gives you permission to laugh at the situation while feeling only compassion for the man.
  59. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    This is simultaneously the nastiest and most soulful of the franchise to date – and the most probing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Extraordinary Miss Flower
    From the opening moments it is clear that The Extraordinary Miss Flower is the work of two artists utterly in command of their vision, and fully trusted and embraced by their collaborators.
  61. The Six Billion Dollar Man
    Sure, it’s a somewhat honeyed portrait that lacks voices to put the other side across. But as the flimsiness of the case against Assange is laid bare, so too is a system that tried to suffocate, torture and crush him to protect its interests.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Voice of Hind Rajab
    As in her Oscar-nominated documentary The Four Daughters, Ben Hania refuses to let the audience look away.
  63. Marty Supreme
    Marty Supreme is a stunning achievement, a breathless yet precisely controlled joyride full of vivid characters, hairpin turns and did-that-just-happen moments – and a modernist fairy tale about big ambitions colliding with grubby street-level realities and capitalism’s seedy imperatives. This is a film that’s built to last.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sentimental Value
    It’s a slowly unfurling film, full of words and recriminations in the manner of Scandi master Ingmar Bergman, but with a good deal more dark humour.
  65. Zootopia 2
    There have been better animated sequels and more epic ones, but has there ever been a fluffier follow-up than this bouncy, buoyant caper starring at least half the nature world?
  66. Left-Handed Girl
    Not every performance is assured – though Nina Ye is consistently impressive – and the script includes perhaps one twist too many. Yet Left-Handed Girl remains a sensitive and affecting drama that avoids sentiment in favour of more grounded emotional truths.
  67. Nuremberg
    It’s weird, in the year 2025, that it seems timely to point out that the Nazis were bad. But Nuremberg, an old-fashioned and satisfyingly complex morality tale in the guise of a courtroom drama and spy thriller, does that job in impressive style.
  68. Dragonfly
    For a study of human connection at its most honest and affecting, with two remarkable lead performances, Dragonfly is a powerfully striking experience.
  69. Train Dreams
    Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams is a peach of a picture. At once miniaturist yet epic, it’s an exquisite film that touches on every human emotion – agony, ecstasy, discovery, surprise, togetherness, loneliness – without contrivance or strain.
  70. Christy
    This is Sweeney’s film. Christy is a career-best turn, sure to draw favourable comparisons with Hilary Swank (who, funnily enough, gets a namecheck in one scene, as Million Dollar Baby was released during the movie’s timespan). She may not be a problematic dude, but she’s certainly Michôd’s most impressive lead performer yet.
  71. Predator: Badlands
    It cleverly pulls at the supposed laws of the series in a way that makes it more interesting without diluting the fearsome nature of the title character. Trachtenberg is making the franchise richer with every instalment. And if the film’s final shot is any reliable indication, he’s far from finished.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Relay
    Relay is an old-school thriller with a drum-tight script and real style.
  73. Hamnet
    Like Nomadland, another film that maps out rocky terrain with impressionistic grace, Hamnet is a deep-felt ode to loss and resilience. Zhao doesn’t just tell you about the healing power of art, she shows you. Prepare your tear ducts accordingly.
  74. Souleymane's Story
    Needless to say, Souleymane’s Story is not an easy watch. It’s a tough, unsparing and often heartbreaking look at life for the migrants who make the online world tick, and a jolt for those of us who use it unthinkingly.
  75. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    As with the previous Knives Outs, the satire is applied in broad but enjoyable brushstrokes.
  76. The Lost Bus
    Cinematographer Pal Ulvik Rokseth’s handheld camera work, some really slick editing and canny use of real news footage, combined with impressive CGI, give it all a pulse-raisingly immersive quality, like a plunge into the underworld.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    One Battle After Another
    The film’s primary feelings are anger and paranoia. As we watch this depiction of a life lived looking over your shoulder, we recognise these as the most commonly, deeply felt feelings of our age.
  78. Remake
    Remake is emotionally shattering.
  79. Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)
    Martel’s forensic doc shatters any sense that, for her fellow Argentinians, the colonial burden has been lifted. It’s an intimate pinhole camera capturing an IMAX-sized story.
  80. The Smashing Machine
    Beyond the regular crunch of fist on bone, The Smashing Machine is an unexpectedly gentle, soulful character study that has Johnson undercutting his crowd-pleasing ‘The Rock’ persona with vulnerability and boyish uncertainty.
  81. A House of Dynamite
    Those first 40-odd minutes are unbearably tense. Ferguson is a standout in a strong ensemble cast
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    No Other Choice
    With humour blacker than black bean noodles, the film is a masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook’s masterpiece. And given this is the man who directed The Handmaiden that’s saying a lot.
  83. Frankenstein
    As with The Shape of Water, del Toro makes no secret of where his sympathy lies and who the real monsters are, but there are surprises here. Not least of which is how moved you might feel in the end.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Young Mothers
    Winner of the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes, Young Mothers brings nothing new to the Dardennes’ canon, but there’s comfort in the familiarity of their methodology. They’ve always had a knack for coaxing tremendous performances from even the youngest of actors, and the cast here is uniformly excellent.
  85. Sorry, Baby
    Sorry, Baby is a captivating comedy-drama that avoids the reductive binary of hero or villain. Instead, Victor articulates the flaws of humanity, of people, but also the hope we can find in each other and ourselves.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Together
    It’s a wonderfully rich gambit for talking about the push and pull of long-term commitment; of the fine line between complacency and wilful denial; and of the bonds of love that can remain intact regardless of your own toxicity. The
  87. Weapons
    There’ll be moans from horrorheads that it’s not scary throughout, but in deepening his exploration of family life in the ‘burbs, Cregger sharpens his twisted scares to a dagger point. And the frights, when they come, really land.
  88. The Naked Gun
    In the thick of reboot culture, The Naked Gun is a prime example of filmmakers taking a nostalgic piece of cinema and making good on its legacy. It honours the humour above all, and you’d be hard-pushed to find a funnier film this year.
  89. 2000 Meters to Andriivka
    A groundbreaking view of the horror and pity of war, I can’t remember a cinematic experience quite like it. It’s devastating and extraordinary.
  90. Bring Her Back
    Like Talk To Her, it doesn’t completely satisfy when it comes time to resolve its intrigue. But, as with their debut, the Philippou brothers show a real skill for creating believable teen characters, Barratt and Wong create a tender, affecting chemistry that make the chills all the more affecting.
  91. M3GAN 2.0
    M3GAN 2.0 continues to offer up a goofy brand of cautionary tale, too: against AI, tech dependence, and Silicon Valley types who want to stick a chip in their brains. You can take that seriously as you want to, just don’t be surprised to find yourself watching it again on your cellphone one day.
  92. Grenfell: Uncovered
    There’s so much in Grenfell: Uncovered about the state of modern Britain that Sadiq does brilliantly not to get sidetracked.
  93. F1: The Movie
    It’s hard to draw too much old-school romance from this world of sponsorship, celebrity and sports washing, but F1 manages it on the back of Pitt’s earthy charm. Watch it rev into the canon of great sports movies. Motion sickness tablets recommended.
  94. Dangerous Animals
    It takes a steady hand to pull off a horror film as outlandish as Dangerous Animals – a movie, lest we forget, that is literally about dangerous animals – but Byrne has pulled off something slick and confident here. It’ll keep horror fans out of the water for years.
  95. Woman and Child
    In Saeed Roustayi’s Woman and Child, a carefully crafted and endlessly gripping drama that follows a Tehran family’s slow disintegration, it’s the supposedly joyous occasion of a marriage proposal that set the wheels of fate in motion.
  96. It Was Just an Accident
    The director is clearly having a whale of a time taking the piss out of the corruption, cruelty and bribery rife in his country.
  97. The Secret Agent
    The Secret Agent is vicious and vivid in its sense of place and danger. But it also has a streak of weirdness and offers a very human take on the political-crime thriller genre.
  98. Lilo & Stitch
    In live-action mode, Lilo & Stitch has some of the charm of an ’80s Amblin movie, like E.T. or Gremlins.
  99. The Little Sister
    As a storyteller, writer-director Hafsia Herzi is not coy, but she’s careful, allowing intimacy to emerge with the same tentativeness as it does for Fatima.
  100. Renoir
    It’s as interesting for what it doesn’t show as for what it does.
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