The BFI's annual Sight & Sound poll of the 50 best films isn't like the typical Hollywood year-end list.It's a barometer of international cinematic health, judged by critics, curators, and academics. I love how diverse they get and how many titles on the list I have never heard of and get to seek out and see.And what they saw in 2025 was a cinema fueled by rebellion and resourcefulness.But what did they think were the 50 best movies that displayed those characteristics?Let's dive in.Sight & Sound's 50 Best Movies of 2025A lot of work goes into making a list of the 50 best movies of the year. And with this list, you can see they have looked at cinema across the globe and picked some titles that may even surprise you. Here is the complete ranked list of the 50 Best Films of 2025 as voted by the magazine's international pool of critics...RankFilm TitleDirector50With Hasan in GazaKamal Aljafari49What Does That Nature Say to YouHong Sang-soo48The Phoenician SchemeWes Anderson47Oslo Stories Trilogy: DreamsDag Johan Haugerud46Nickel BoysRaMell Ross45Miroirs No. 3Christian Petzold44LandmarksLucrecia Martel43Highest 2 LowestSpike Lee42Hard TruthsMike Leigh41HamnetChloé Zhao40Die My LoveLynne Ramsay39Cover-upLaura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus3828 Years LaterDanny Boyle37Souleymane's StoryBoris Lojkine36Silent FriendIldikó Enyedi35The ShroudsDavid Cronenberg34RemakeRoss McElwee33On FallingLaura Carreira32My Father's ShadowAkinola Davies Jr.31Father Mother Sister BrotherJim Jarmusch30CloudKiyoshi Kurosawa29Black BagSteven Soderbergh28Nouvelle VagueRichard Linklater27The Love That RemainsHlynur Pálmason26If I Had Legs I'd Kick YouMary Bronstein25EddingtonAri Aster24AprilDea Kulumbegashvili23Afternoons of SolitudeAlbert Serra22Rose of NevadaMark Jenkin21A House of DynamiteKathryn Bigelow20Blue MoonRichard Linklater19The Voice of Hind RajabKaouther Ben Hania18The Ice TowerLucile...
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