Yay, the votes are in! Here are your favourite films of 2025.
The results
You sent in over 9000 lists of your 2025 faves. The winners: a serious Bathrobe Blockbuster, Dutch bickering in the Austrian Alps, and that monumental film with the mandatory 15-minute intermission.
Here are your favourite films of the year!
The best film of 2025: One Battle After Another
#2: Bugonia
#3: I’m Still Here
#4 Voor de meisjes
#5 The Brutalist
Learn all about the winners, the complete top 15 and the extra category winners in our magazine.
More 2025
Up for more 2025 in film? Listen to our soundtracks of 2025 playlist on Spotify here, or get yourself one of our exclusive 2025 poster prints, why don’t you.
There’s no place like home, but wasn’t it great to spend an entire year visiting others? A flash of our Cineville card unlocked every portal. We stayed in sticky-hot Mexican bars and blue-tinged Mumbai apartments, slipped between the sheets in New York penthouses, and got lost in the memories of a messy Australian snail shell.
We saw grand designs come to life, buildings under construction and homes that were violently demolished (and rebuilt, and violently demolished again). The most unexpected places — a love hotel, a juke joint, a hazy dance floor — suddenly felt like our own. Sometimes, home was simply where your people were. But not everyone looking for a place to stay, managed to find one.
As some searched for a roof over their head, others were searching for themselves. Yearning for a new identity, a new body, a new person to beckon inside. Home is where the heart is, after all. And if the walls came closing in, there was always the outdoors. Up North, into the woods, or back to the place that was once your shelter. And afterwards? We’d be back in our comfortable seats, in front of the big screen. Lights on, ready to head home.