THE BEST AND WORST OF 2025
Alan's picks
The Year's Ten Best Movies
(In Descending Order)
1. Nouvelle Vague
2. Wicked: For Good
3. Sentimental Value
4. One Battle After Another
5. Marty Supreme
6. Blue Moon
7. The Shrouds
8. Companion
9. Is This Thing On?
10. Sinners
The Second Ten:
11. Splitsville
12. Jay Kelly
13. After The Hunt
14. Ballad Of A Small Player
15. Left-Handed Girl
16. Americana
17. Caught Stealing
18. Bugonia
19. The Testament Of Ann Lee
20. Train Dreams
I also liked:
Die My Love
The Phoenician Scheme
Honey Don't
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
The Smashing Machine
Christy
Materialists
Sorry Baby
The Alto Knights
Black Bag
Nuremberg
The Year's Best Performances
Best Actor:
Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Best Actress:
Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)
Best Supporting Actor:
Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)
Best Supporting Actress:
Zoey Deutch (Nouvelle Vague)
Additional Great Performances Of 2025:
ACTOR:
Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), George Clooney (Jay Kelly), Guillaume Marbeck (Nouvelle Vague), Russell Crowe (Nuremberg), Benicio Del Toro (The Phoenician Scheme)
ACTRESS:
Emma Stone (Bugonia), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You), Laura Dern (Is This Thing On), Julia Roberts (After The Hunt), Sydney Sweeney (Christy), Dakota Johnson (Materialists, Splitsville), Amanda Seyfried (The Testament Of Ann Lee)
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly), Andrew Scott (Blue Moon), Paul Mescal (Hamnet)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), Gwyneth Paltrow (Marty Supreme), Laura Dern (Jay Kelly), Kirsten Dunst (Roofman), Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine), Jennifer Lopez (Kiss Of The Spider Woman), Marisa Abela (Black Bag)
Best Director:
Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague, Blue Moon)
Additional Great Directors:
Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value), Jon M. Chu (Wicked: For Good), Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), Mona Fastvold (The Testament Of Ann Lee)
Best Picture:
Nouvelle Vague
The Year's Worst Movies
(In Descending Order)
1. One Of Them Days
2. Oh, Canada
3. Flight Risk
4. Cleaner
5. Den Of Thieves: Pantera
6. The Electric State
7. The Man In My Basement
8. The Old Guard 2
9. Final Destination: Bloodlines
10. Death Of A Unicorn
11. Freakier Friday
12. The Roses
Chelsea's picks
The Year's Ten Best Movies
(In Descending Order)
1. Wicked: For Good
2. Marty Supreme
3. Sentimental Value
4. Hamnet
5. Splitsville
6. Sinners
7. One Battle After Another
8. The Lost Bus
9. Bugonia
10. Nouvelle Vague
The Second Ten:
11. Christy
12. Jay Kelly
13. Blue Moon
14. Roofman
15. Materialists
16. After The Hunt
17. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
18. Nuremberg
19. Die My Love
20. Song Sung Blue
I also liked:
Eternity
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Night Always Comes
Riff Raff
F1: The Movie
The Smashing Machine
Nonnas
Sorry, Baby
Americana
Companion
Left-Handed Girl
Wake Up Dead Man
The Year's Best Performances
Best Actor:
Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Best Actress:
Emma Stone (Bugonia)
Best Supporting Actor:
Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly)
Best Supporting Actress:
Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good)
Additional Great Performances Of 2023:
ACTOR:
Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), George Clooney (Jay Kelly), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Russell Crowe (Nuremberg), Hugh Jackman (Song Sung Blue), Brad Pitt (F1: The Movie), Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine), Vince Vaughn (Nonnas), Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams), Matthew McConaughey (The Lost Bus), Guillaume Marbeck (Nouvelle Vague)
ACTRESS:
Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love), Julia Roberts (After the Hunt), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked: For Good), Sydney Sweeney (Christy), Dakota Johnson (Materialists), Vanessa Kirby (Night Always Comes), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), America Ferrera (The Lost Bus)
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value), Sean Penn (One Battle After Another), Paul Mescal (Hamnet), Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another), Jonathan Bailey (Wicked: For Good), Kevin O’Leary (Marty Supreme), Ben Foster (Christy)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), Laura Dern (Jay Kelly), Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value), Zoey Deutch (Nouvelle Vague), Jennifer Lopez (Kiss Of The Spider Woman), Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine), Gwyneth Paltrow (Marty Supreme), Odessa A’zion (Marty Supreme), Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another), Gal Gadot (Snow White), Mia Goth (Frankenstein)
Best Director:
Jon M. Chu (Wicked: For Good)
Additional Great Directors:
Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague, Blue Moon), Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), Mona Fastvold (The Testament Of Ann Lee)
Best Picture:
Wicked: For Good
The Year's Ten Worst Movies
(In Descending Order)
1. The Old Guard 2
2. Death Of A Unicorn
3. The Man In My Basement
4. The Electric State
5. One Of Them Days
6. The Pickup
7. The Roses
8. Father Mother Sister Brother
