As 2025 draws to a close with drama over the very future of the theatrical experience, we’re here to tell you that the foundation of the art form that we love so dearly is strong. On Tuesday, RogerEbert.com named Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” as the best film of 2025, and you’ll find it on dozens of lists below. Today, we reveal all of the individual top ten lists from our regular writers, revealing the depth of quality this year. From new works by acknowledged masters like Jafar Panahi, David Cronenberg, and Guillermo del Toro to debuts of new voices like Eva Victor, Carson Lund, and Sarah Friedland, these lists truly capture what was great about this year in movies. Read through them all, pick your favorites, and watch a movie this weekend. Heck, watch two. CHAZ EBERT BRIAN TALLERICO MATT ZOLLER SEITZ ROBERT DANIELS NELL MINOW “Blue Moon““Highest 2 Lowest”“Jay Kelly”“KPop Demon Hunters““Nuremberg““One Battle After Another”“One of Them Days““Rental Family““Sentimental Value”“Sinners” Honorable mention: “Dog Man,” “Ella McCay,” “The Life of Chuck,” “My Dead Friend Zoe,” “Sorry, Baby,” and “Zootopia 2” CLINT WORTHINGTON SIMON ABRAMS CARLOS AGUILAR“Frankenstein”“It Was Just an Accident”“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”“Misericordia”“Resurrection”“The Secret Agent”“Sirat”“Sorry, Baby”“Sound of Falling”“Train Dreams” JASON BAILEY NANDINI BALIAL“28 Years Later”“Frankenstein”“Hamnet”“Homebound”“Mistress Dispeller”“One Battle After Another”“Sentimental Value”“Sinners”“Sorry, Baby”“Twinless” Honorary mentions: “Friendship,” “Nouvelle Vague,” “Weapons,” “KPop Demon Hunters” MACK BATES MONICA CASTILLO GODFREY CHESHIRE CHO SEONGYONG Runner-ups: “Black Bag”, “Blue Moon”, “Familiar Touch”, “A House of Dynamite”, “Left-handed Girl”, “The Life of Chuck”, “Mickey 17”, “Misericordia”, “No Other Choice”, and “Souleymane’s Story” MAX COVILL KAYLEIGH DONALDSON ISAAC FELDBERG MARYA E. GATES TIM GRIERSON BRENDAN HODGES CHASE HUTCHINSON ALLY JOHNSON RENDY JONES“Hamnet”“Hedda”“It Was Just an Accident”“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”“One Battle After Another”“The Secret Agent”“Sentimental Value”“Sinners”“Sorry, Baby”“The Testament of Ann Lee” CORTLYN KELLY“Hedda”“My Father’s Shadow”“On Becoming A Guinea Fowl”“One Battle After Another”“One of Them Days”“Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk”“The Secret Agent”“Seeds”“Sinners”“Sorry, Baby”Honorable Mentions: “Black Bag,” “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” and “Sentimental Value” BEN KENIGSBERG GLENN KENNY WAEL KHAIRY“Best Wishes to All”“Chime”“Hamnet”“I Swear”“The Plague”“A Poet”“Put Your Hand on Your Hand and Walk”“Sentimental Value”“Sirat”“Train Dreams” TOMRIS LAFFLY“Bugonia”“Frankenstein”“The History of Sound”“It Was Just An Accident”“Marty Supreme”“Nouvelle Vague”“One Battle After Another”“Resurrection”“The Secret Agent”“Train Dreams” ZACHARY LEE CHRISTY LEMIRE“Bugonia”“Eephus”“Marty Supreme”“My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow”“One Battle After Another”“Sentimental Value”“Sinners”“Sorry, Baby”“Train Dreams”“Weapons” CRAIG LINDSEY“Blue Moon”/“Nouvelle Vague”“Die My Love”/If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”“Eephus”/“F1”“Highest 2 Lowest”/“Sinners”“It Was Just An Accident”/“Misericordia”“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”/“Sorry, Baby”“One Battle After Another”/“The Phoenician Scheme”“Predators”/“Zodiac Killer Project” JANA MONJI SHERIN NICOLE“40 Acres”“Billy Idol Should Be Dead”“The Fisherman”“Happy Birthday”“KPop Demon Hunters”“Little Amelie or the Character of Rain”“Rental Family”“The Secret Agent”“Sinners”“Train Dreams” SHEILA O’MALLEY CARLA RENATA KATIE RIFE PAUL RISKER PEYTON ROBINSON RICHARD ROEPER JOURDAIN SEARLES KAIYA SHUNYATA PETER SOBCZYNSKI COLLIN SOUTER“The Baltimorons”“Eephus”“It Was Just An Accident”“A Little Prayer”“My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air In Moscow”“One Battle After Another”“Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk”“Scarlet”“Sentimental Value”“The Testament of Ann Lee” SCOUT TAFOYA BRANDON TOWNS MICHAEL VIERS BRANDON WILSON