When November ends and we face the final stage of the year, we can consider it opened List time. At the end of 2025, since it could not be otherwise, the various media and companies that were the peak of the cinematic harvest, on the eve of the various award races, will choose to settle the issue of the most industrial fields. The person responsible for giving the starting signal to these lists was none other than… Cinema notebooksthe prestigious French newspaper dedicated to the auteur’s cinema.
Cinema notebooks Gave us a little surprise by choosing a Spanish film as the best film of all time for 2025: Lonely afternoon By Albert Serra. It’s the documentary about bullfighting that won an award Golden Shell At the San Sebastian Festival last year; It was only after its international distribution that it silenced critics in many countries, eventually leading to it going to number one.
Second: critics They’ve chosen a somewhat more popular film, which is very likely to lead the way down the road towards Oscars: Battle after battle By Paul Thomas Andersonwhich received great critical consensus. He follows Thistlethe latest from the Israeli director Nadav Lapid: A film focusing on the position of Israeli society after the July 7 attacks and the genocide in Gaza, which Benjamin Netanyahu’s government expanded in response.
In fourth place we find another big Oscar contender (in this case under the Best international film), How are you Secret agent. Brazilian production Clipper Medunsa Filho Which will be shown for the first time in Spain at the beginning of next year. he Top 5 closes with Laughter and bladea long-running drama of the Portuguese Pedro Pinho Who won the award Best Actress for Cleo Diarra In the “A Certain Look” section at the recent Cannes Film Festival.
In position 6 it is Adventurel Sophie Letourneur. In number 7 we find another documentaryTitled 7 walks with Mark Brown Designed for flowers: Pierre Creton and Vincent Barry They are its managers. And in number 8 we find the friendly presence: New wave By Richard Linklater. A film that premieres in Spain on January 9 and focuses on the filming of… At the end of the getawayDirected by one of the magazine’s historical figures: Jean-Luc Godard.
The list ends with drama Drift Laurent (Directed by Anton Balkdjian, Mathieu Eustachon, and Leo Couture) And in tenth place we find finally Mirrors No. 3from German Christian Petzold.