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The bean counters might say otherwise, but 2025 was a good year for movies. Hollywood is undergoing seismic changes, with yet another studio, Warner Bros., staring down a possible merger. This an industry that\u2019s always under threat, though, and always seems to figure something out. If anything, 2025 was also a year in which audiences showed that they still crave the theatrical experience. The Associated Press\u2019 film writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle\u2019s give their picks for the best movies of 2025:<\/p>\n
Lindsey Bahr\u2019s top picks<\/b> <\/p>\n
1. One Battle After Another<\/b> <\/p>\n
2. If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/b> <\/p>\n
Mary Bronstein turned her own domestic nightmare into a raw and surreal cinematic expression of maternal exhaustion and madness. Anchored by an utterly fearless performance from Rose Byrne, Bronstein\u2019s film is an exposed nerve come to life. <\/p>\n
3. Marty Supreme<\/b> <\/p>\n
Great filmmakers can make anything exciting, like, say, the adventures of a broke table tennis player, and true SOB Marty Mauser, in mid-century New York. Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein built an enormously entertaining, white-knuckle spectacle of ambition and ego, giving us the defining Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet performance we\u2019ve been waiting for. <\/p>\n
4. Sentimental Value<\/b> <\/p>\n
The ghosts of the past and things unsaid linger in cracks and floorboards of the quiet home at the heart of Joachim Trier\u2019s latest, a textured and mature portrait of family, grief, forgiveness and the loneliness of a life in the arts. <\/p>\n
5. The Naked Gun<\/b> <\/p>\n
Finally, a great studio comedy and in the most unlikely of packages: A self-consciously shameless reboot\/sequel\/remake that stands on its own through Akiva Schaffer\u2019s total commitment to absolute silliness. Only Hamnet<\/b> elicited more tears. <\/p>\n
Jake Coyle\u2019s picks<\/b> <\/p>\n
1. One Battle After Another<\/b> <\/p>\n
2. No Other Choice<\/b> <\/p>\n
In Park Chan-wook\u2019s masterful, midnight-black comedy, a newly out-of-work man (Lee Byung-hun) decides his best option to get a leg up on similarly qualified job applicants is to kill them, one by one. It\u2019s an ingenious narrative (from Donald E. Westlake\u2019s 1997 novel) that Park extrapolates in increasingly profound ways.<\/p>\n
3. It Was Just an Accident<\/b> <\/p>\n
Jafar Panahi has made a lot of great films, many of them in extraordinary circumstances. So see his latest not just because it\u2019s an important Iranian film, shot through with pain and fury, and made by one of the most courageous filmmakers on the planet, but because it\u2019s gripping and funny and human. <\/p>\n
4. Marty Supreme<\/b> <\/p>\n
The annals of great New York movies have a new one. Josh Safdie\u2019s picaresque ping pong epic, starring Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet as a tireless striver, is the giddiest, most breathless movie of the year. <\/p>\n
5. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/b> <\/p>\n
Underestimate Rian Johnson\u2019s whodunits at your peril. The latest chapter in the endlessly entertaining adventures of Benoit Blanc may be the best of the bunch. And it\u2019s got Josh O\u2019Connor, who put his stamp on the movie year in a handful of standout performances.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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