2025 New Release Log
I don’t like to put ratings on my reviews, but I do share them on letterboxd. This page (whose structure shamelessly lifted by Michael Sicinski's), includes a running top 10 and general categorization for a broad range of 2025 releases. Includes any “new release”, aka theatrical releases, 2025 world premieres, and older festival films seen for the first time this year. Excludes any films I’m watching for programming purposes.
I’ll try to be better about updating this page, but expect reviewed films to be added a few days after reviews drop.
Top 10 of 2025 (Seen for the first time this year)
1. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
2. The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao)
3. Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani)
4. With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)
5. My Undesirable Friends Part 1: Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev)
6. About Thirty (Martin Shanly)
7. Victim of Circumstance (Kalil Haddad)
8. Morning Circle (Basma Alsharif)
9. Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
10. Buseok (Park Kyujae)
* = seen in 2024
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7 Walks with Mark Brown (Pierre Creton, Anton Barré) *
Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) *
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao)
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg) *
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About Thirty (Martin Shanly)
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) *
Buseok (Park Kyujae)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
By the Stream (Hong Sang-Soo) *
Careless Passage (Jerome Hiler)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke) *
Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland)
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
Direct Action (Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell) *
Dracula (Radu Jude)
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
Kontinental ‘25 (Radu Jude)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie) *
Morning Circle (Basma Alsharif)
My Undesirable Friends Part 1: Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev)
Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias) *
The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonca Filho)
Victim of Circumstance (Kalil Haddad)
Windward (Sharon Lockhart)
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)
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100,000,000,000,000 (Virgil Vernier)
09/05/1982 (Camilo Restrepo, Jorge Caballero)
An Evening Song (For Three Voices) (Graham Swon)
Baby Invasion (Harmony Korine)
The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) *
bleared eyes of blue glass (Park Kyujae)
BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions (Khalil Joseph)
Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari)
The Boy Was Found Unharmed (Kalil Haddad)
Concrete Valley (Antoine Bourges)
Daria’s Night Flowers (Maryam Tafakory)
Dooni (Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N Harold)
Drunken Noodles (Lucio Castro)
The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter’s Moon (Adam Piron)
The Empire (Bruno Dumont)
GAZA.MP4 (Diaa Lagan, Fuad Halwani, Mohhand El-Masri)
The Gloria of Your Imagination (Jennifer Reeves)
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)
If I forget thee, Gaza (Vincent Guilbert)
In the Maritime Frequencies (Greta Snider)
Invention (Courtney Stephens)
Keyhole Conversation (Peter Larsson)
Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes (Gabriel Azorin)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
Levers (Rhayne Vermette)
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (Tomonari Nishikawa)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Palmason)
Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love (Jodie Mack)
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (Jose Alfonso Vargas)
The Maiden (Graham Foy)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz) *
Milisuthando (Milisuthando Bongela) *
Mines to Caves (Cauleen Smith)
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
My Secret Boyfriend Died in a Mass Shooting (Kalil Haddad)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
Presence (Steven Soderbergh)
Serpent’s Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) *
Splitsville (Michael Angelo Corvino)
study for three streams (Park Kyujae)
The Things You Kill (Alireza Khatami)
toward a fundamental theory of physics (Victor Van Rossem)
Twinless (James Sweeney)
Ulia #2 (Laura Moreno Bueno)
Vulcanizadora (Joel Potrykus)
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100 Sunset (Kunsang Kyirong)
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)
A Patriot of These Woods (Karel Doing)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
The Botanist (Jing Yi)
Broken Rage (Takeshi Kitano)
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Chelsea Drive (Kevin Jerome Everson)
Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) *
The Damned (Roberto Minervini) *
Dream Team (Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn) *
Eddington (Ari Aster)
Eephus (Carson Lund)
Eight Postcards from Utopia (Radu Jude)
A Fidai Film (Kamal Aljafari)
Four Mothers (Darren Thornton)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) *
Griffin in Summer (Nicholas Colia)
He Who Wears Faces on His Ears (Sky Hopinka)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Little, Big, and Far (Jem Cohen) *
Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman)
Mare’s Nest (Ben Rivers)
No Sleep Till (Alexandra Simpson)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni)
One of Them Days (Lawrence Lamont)
Organized Forgetting (J.M. Martinez)
Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
Pin de Fartie (Alejo Moguillansky)
The Plough (Philippe Garrel)
Powwow People (Sky Hopinka)
Predators (David Osit)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay)
Seven Veils (Atom Egoyan)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)
Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine)
Viet and Nam (Truong Min Quy) *
Who by Fire (Philippe Lesage) *
Wolfland (Sarah Hoffman)
You Burn Me (Matias Piñero)
Yes (Nadav Lapid)
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A Complete Unknown (James Mangold)
Billy (Laurence Coté-Collins)
Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang)
The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte)
Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
Drowning Dry (Laurynas Bareiša)
Familiar Touch (Sarah Friedland)
Friendship (Andrew De Young)
Grand Theft Hamlet (Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls)
Happyend (Neo Sora)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
I Carry the Universe With Me (Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
I’m Still Here (Walter Salles)
Kottukkaali (P.S. Vinothraj)
KPop Demon Hunters (Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang)
Love (Dag Johan Haugerud)
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-Ho)
Monarch City (Titus Richard)
Ne Zha 2 (Yang Yu)
No Other Choice (Park Chan Wook)
Paddington in Peru (Dougal Wilson)
QueerPanorama (Jun Li)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Shades of Blue (Antoni Orlof)
The Sparrow in the Chimney (Ramon Zürcher)
Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor)
Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas)
To Kill a Mongolian Horse (Jiang Xiaoxuan)
Transcending Dimensions (Toyoda Toshiaki)
Tuktuit (Lindsay McIntyre)
Weapons (Zach Cregger)
Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (Rajee Samarasinghe)
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40 Acres (R.T. Thorne)
A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski)
By Design (Amanda Kramer)
The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
Materialists (Celine Song)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
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Arguments in Favor of Love (Gabriel Abrantes)
The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan)
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Oh, Hi! (Sophie Brooks)
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