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
1. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) [9]
2. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg) [9]
3. The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao) [9]
4. Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani) [9]
5. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie) [8]
6. Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias) [8]
7. 7 Walks with Mark Brown (Pierre Creton, Anton Barré) [8]
8. My Undesirable Friends Part 1: Last Air in Moscow [8]
9. About Thirty (Martin Shanly) [8]
10. Buseok (Park Kyujae) [8]
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Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) [9]
The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao) [9]
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani) [9]
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg) [9]
[8]
100,000,000,000,000 (Virgil Vernier)
7 Walks with Mark Brown (Pierre Creton, Anton Barré)
About Thirty (Martin Shanly)
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Buseok (Park Kyujae)
By the Stream (Hong Sang-Soo)
Careless Passage (Jerome Hiler)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
Compensation (Zeinabu Irene Davis) [1999]
Love Hotel (Shinji Somai) [1985]
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
My Undesirable Friends Part 1: Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev)
Nightshift (Robina Rose) [1981]
Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias)
The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir)
The Story of Scenario (Jean-Luc Godard)
Vulcanizadora (Joel Potrykus)
[7]
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)
Concrete Valley (Antoine Bourges)
Direct Action (Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell)
The Empire (Bruno Dumont)
The Gloria of Your Imagination (Jennifer Reeves)
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)
Invention (Courtney Stephens)
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (Tomonari Nishikawa)
The Maiden (Graham Foy)
Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
Milisuthando (Milisuthando Bongela)
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
Presence (Steven Soderbergh)
Serpent’s Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
study for three streams (Park Kyujae)
The Things You Kill (Alireza Khatami)
[6]
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
The Botanist (Jing Yi)
Broken Rage (Takeshi Kitano)
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)
Four Mothers (Darren Thornton)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
He Who Wears Faces on His Ears (Sky Hopinka)
Little, Big, and Far (Jem Cohen)
Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman)
No Sleep Till (Alexandra Simpson)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni)
One of Them Days (Lawrence Lamont)
Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
The Plough (Philippe Garrel)
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)
Twinless (James Sweeney)
Viet and Nam (Truong Min Quy)
Who by Fire (Philippe Lesage)
Wolfland (Sarah Hoffman)
You Burn Me (Matias Piñero)
[5]
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold)
Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte)
Drowning Dry (Laurynas Bareiša)
Familiar Touch (Sarah Friedland)
Grand Theft Hamlet (Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls)
Happyend (Neo Sora)
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)
Paddington in Peru (Dougal Wilson)
QueerPanorama (Jun Li)
The Sparrow in the Chimney (Ramon Zürcher)
Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor)
To Kill a Mongolian Horse (Jiang Xiaoxuan)
Transcending Dimensions (Toyoda Toshiaki)
Weapons (Zach Cregger)
[4]
40 Acres (R.T. Thorne)
Billy (Laurence Coté-Collins)
By Design (Amanda Kramer)
Evergreens (Jared Briley)
Materialists (Celine Song)
[3]
The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan)
[2]
Oh, Hi! (Sophie Brooks)
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