The Best Movies of 2025 | Chris Lambert

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This is a live list where I rank the movies of 2025. If something isn’t on the list, I haven’t seen it. Leave your comments and we’ll talk. The movies within a category are in alphabetical order. I give a lot of weight to scope, scale, and depth. If a movie is higher than you expect, it probably did one or all of those things very well. If it’s lower, well, it probably frustrated me. Full thoughts are available on the all-time rankings page!

Updated 5/26/25

Latest additions: Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Sinners | The Amateur | Death of a Unicorn | Opus

Note: Each tier is sorted alphabetically

My Favorites

Wow

  1. Sinners

Impressive

  1. Black Bag

Enjoyable

  1. Mickey 17
  2. Mission Impossible — The Final Reckoning
  3. The Amateur

Positives 

Neutral 

Almost 

  1. Companion

Not Quite

  1. Captain America: Brave New World
  2. Death of a Unicorn
  3. Opus
  4. Wolf Man

Not For Me

Really Not For Me

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Chris Lambert is co-founder of Colossus. He writes about complex movie endings, narrative construction, and how movies connect to the psychology of our day-to-day lives.
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