Emily Maskell
5 private favorite movies of 2025
Sentimental Worth (Joachim Trier)
Sorry, Child (Eva Victor)
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Movement (Gints Zilbalodis)
On Falling (Laura Carreira)
Cinematographer of the 12 months
Darius Khondji (Mickey 17)
Under the line
Léo Foolish-Pélissier (animation director, Movement)
Outdated guard
Stellan Skarsgård
New faculty
Chase Infiniti
It’s f***kin’ trash however I liked it
Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy
Nice image… I hated it!
KPop Demon Hunters
Bodily media launch of 2025
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Criterion Assortment)
A want for the cinema of 2026…
For ladies administrators behind improbable debuts to get backing for his or her second movies!
Josh Slater-Williams
5 private favorite movies of 2025
One Battle After One other (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Tremendous Joyful Endlessly (Kohei Igarashi)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Cinematographer of the 12 months
Michael Bauman (One Battle After One other)
Under the line
Lloyd and Rose Buck (Hawk trainers for H is for Hawk)
Outdated guard
Delroy Lindo
New faculty
Lily Collias (Good One, Roofman)
Finest non-fiction
The Encampments
It’s f***kin’ trash however I liked it
I don’t actually subscribe to this notion, however… Closing Vacation spot: Bloodlines?
Nice image… I hated it!
Anemone is fairly good for the primary 25 minutes or so. After that…
Bodily media launch of 2025
Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami (Third Window Movies)
A want for the cinema of 2026…
No extra studio mergers. Hell, break up a number of the current mergers.
Willow Maclay
5 private favorite movies of 2025
Eephus (Carson Lund)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
Castration Film Anthology II: The Better of Each Worlds (Louise Weard)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
One Battle After One other (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Cinematography
Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Sinners)
Under the line
Ruth E Carter (Costume designer, Sinners)
Outdated guard
Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte
New faculty
Alexandria Walton and Ivy Wolk
Finest non-fiction
Mutineer (Scout Tafoya)
It’s f***kin’ trash however I liked it
Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
Nice image… I hated it!
Weapons (Zach Cregger)
Bodily media launch of 2025
A New Leaf 4Okay (OCN)
A want for the cinema of 2026…
A complete rejection of generative AI.
Tom Huddleston
5 private favorite movies of 2025
One Battle After One other (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)
Sirat (Oliver Laxe)
It Was Simply An Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Cinematographer of the 12 months
Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Sinners)
Under the line
Paul Katte and Nick Nicolaou (Particular make-up results designers, Carry Her Again), that shit was fucking gnarly.
Outdated guard
Benicio del Toro – simply lovable in OBAA.
New faculty
Harry Melling, inevitably.
Finest non-fiction
The Voice of Hind Rajab
It’s f***kin’ trash however I liked it
I reject the premise of the class, however I guess Wake Up Useless Man?
Nice image… I hated it!
The Phoenician Scheme
Bodily media launch of 2025
The Dialog StudioCanal field set.
A want for the cinema of 2026…
One respectable tentpole blockbuster, for the love of God.
Esmé Holden
5 private favorite movies of 2025
Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)
Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing)
Cent mille milliards (Virgil Vernier)
Cinematographer of the 12 months
Nothing from this 12 months comes near Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985), which bought a lovely new 4Okay restoration and re-release this 12 months, and so technically counts.
Under the line
Each Union organiser, particularly these combating the slop wave of AI.
Outdated guard
Ralph Fiennes (28 Years Later)
New faculty
Regardless of nepo-baby credentials, Mia Threapleton proves she’s the real article in The Phoenician Scheme.
Finest non-fiction
Being John Smith (John Smith), a mediation on the avant-garde administrators boring title and the imminence of demise; very true of the British psyche in its fixed self-deprecation and introverted disappointment at life.
It’s f***kin’ trash however I liked it
Child Invasion (Concord Korine) embraces the slop world we dwell in, principally for the more serious, however I couldn’t look away. Like a night time misplaced to Instagram Reels; addictively bleak and pointless.
Nice image… I hated it!
One Battle After One other, for as completed and thrilling because it usually is, PTA pushes up towards the bounds of his personal concepts and comes out wanting comfortably self-defeating and a little petite bourgeois.
A want for the cinema of 2026…
If films can look only a little extra lovely subsequent 12 months, after which that development continues yearly, then in a few a long time we would have the ability to get again to the usual we was at.
