Every year The New York Times’s critics put out a list of their Top 10 movies of the year. But there are a lot of film experts in the newsroom, and in a terrific year for the big screen, we wanted to get a sense of what stuck with them the most. So we polled the 16 staffers who play important roles in shaping our movie coverage. Here are our 25 most notable films of 2025, in alphabetical order.
(After you’ve looked over our choices, you can check out a refresher of the movies released this year and vote for your own favorites in our reader poll.)
‘28 Years Later’