Best of 2025

  • Best Films of 2025: Runners-Up (Honorable Mentions)

    Angela’s Honorable Mentions:
    Rebuilding, dir: Max Walker-Silverman (on demand)
    Cloud, dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Criterion)
    The Baltimorons, dir: Jay Duplass (AMC, on demand)
    HappyEnd, dir: Neo Sora (Criterion)
    Homebound, dir: Neeraj Ghaywan (Netflix)
    The Balconettes, dir: Noémie Merlant (Kanopy)
    Universal Language, dir: Matthew Rankin (Kanopy)
    Black Bag, dir: Steven Soderbergh (Prime)
    Sly Lives, (aka The Burden of Black Genius) dir: Questlove (Hulu)
    40 Acres, dir: R.T. Thorne (Hulu)
    Twinless, dir: James Sweeney (Hulu)
    Hedda, dir: Nia DaCosta (Prime)
    Sister Midnight, dir: Karan Kandhari (Hulu)

    Autumn’s Honorable Mentions:
    Black Bag, dir: Steven Soderbergh (Prime)
    The Balconettes, dir: Noémie Merlant (Kanopy)
    Teki Cometh, dir: Daihachi Yoshida
    Left-Handed Girl, dir: Shih-Ching Tsou (Netflix)
    My Sunshine, dir: Hiroshi Okuyama (on demand)
    It Ends, dir: Alexander Ullom
    Urchin, dir: Harris Dickinson (Hulu)
    The Testament of Ann Lee, dir: Mona Fastvold
    Sister Midnight, dir: Karan Kandhari (Hulu)