The Top Ten Best Films of 2025

You know, I have to admit, 2025 has been a pretty great year for movies. Maybe I was just lucky and kept happening upon the cream of the crop but this year it’s honestly gonna be harder to pick the best movies than the worst ones. Little behind-the-scenes info here, as the year goes on, I keep a list of the films I’ve seen and make a “Best” and “Worst” shortlist going just to try and help me out at the end of the year. This year, the worst shortlist was 15 titles long, almost every title I didn’t like could be brought up in that list… the best list? 29 titles long, every single one a film I actually loved which was absolutely gleeful to watch. Half that list won’t even be printed because there’s just too many to go through and cutting it down to a top 10 has been hell… but I did it, but first we need to lay out the ground rules:

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Kpop Demon Hunters (2025) – Perfection

Released: 20th June
Seen: 10th December

We are officially at the point where the K-pop genre has hit critical mass, probably been there for a while thanks to supergroups like Blackpink or BTS showing how dominant they can be on the pop charts. This is part of an era that, according to my research, is known as the Korean Wave and hopefully when we talk about the absolutely insane rise of K-pop and the Korean wave in general in the future, we need to take the time to mention Kpop Demon Hunters, which feels like the kind of movie that can only exist now that K-pop has become such a massive element of pop culture that it has the incredible mass appeal that this work of art has.

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