Work in progress – subject to change. Because I am still watching movies released in 2025, so it’s always possible that a new title could usurp the number one in due course.
All numbered films received either a theatrical, online or home media release in the UK between 01/01/25 and 31/12/25.
This version includes re-releases, but those aren’t numbered. It’s hard to imagine movies improving on Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, Haneke’s The Piano Teacher or Woo’s Hard Boiled.
In addition to re-releases, this version also includes films seen in festivals which haven’t had any wider UK release in 2025.
Finally, last year’s list is here.
Top Ten Movies (and more) 2025
Please click on titles to see reviews.
The numbering will mostly be added later when I’ve watched more of the outstanding 2024 titles, and they have stopped moving around. So, currently, positions in this list should be taken with a pinch of salt.
*****
Babe (1995, Australia – reissue)
Battleship Potemkin / Music by Pet Shop Boys (1925, USSR – reissue, new score)
Brief Encounter (1945, UK – reissue; also in Film Tottenham’s BFI / Love & Obsession programme)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, US, UK – in Film Tottenham’s Cinema for All / 100 Years of Community Cinema programme)
The Devil’s Backbone (2001, Mexico, Spain – reissue)
Dogtooth (2009, Greece – reissue)
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