On the cover: The 50 best films of 2025 - how many have you seen?
Inside: Lucile Hadžihalilović interviewed by Peter Strickland, Park Chan-wook on No Other Choice, Chloé Zhao on Hamnet, Richard Linklaters tour of the Nouvelle Vague and Edgar Wight in conversation with Stephen King.
The 50 best films of 2025
At the end of every year, we ask our team of critics to name the best new films they ’ve seen in the last 12 months. Reflecting the challenges of a difficult 2025, the list they ’ve come up with bristles with thrills, intelligence, humour and feeling – from Korea to Gaza to California, and from Tudor England to 60s Paris to a burningly topical present.
On the cover: The 50 best films of 2025 - how many have you seen?
Inside: Lucile Hadžihalilović interviewed by Peter Strickland, Park Chan-wook on No Other Choice, Chloé Zhao on Hamnet, Richard Linklaters tour of the Nouvelle Vague and Edgar Wight in conversation with Stephen King.
The 50 best films of 2025
At the end of every year, we ask our team of critics to name the best new films they ’ve seen in the last 12 months. Reflecting the challenges of a difficult 2025, the list they ’ve come up with bristles with thrills, intelligence, humour and feeling – from Korea to Gaza to California, and from Tudor England to 60s Paris to a burningly topical present.
