REEL | Top 10 Films of 2025 So Far

"Your body remembers me."

Warner Bros. Pictures / Proximity Media

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1) Sinners ¹ (dir. Ryan Coogler)

2) Pavements ² (dir. Alex Ross Perry)

3) Friendship ³ (dir. Andrew DeYoung)

4) The Phoenician Scheme (dir. Wes Anderson)

5) Materialists (dir. Celine Song)

6) Black Bag (dir. Steven Soderbergh)

7) Companion (dir. Drew Hancock)

8) The Ballad of Wallis Island (dir. James Griffiths)

9) The Assessment (dir. Fleur Fortuné)

10) The Life of Chuck (dir. Mike Flanagan)

Utopia / Mubi

¹ Sinners is a blood-soaked cinematic allegory and tribute to post-WWI blues music and African-American culture in the South. [...] It's a purposely messy but righteously authentic and celebratory experience as it uses vampiric lore to twist its themes of freedom through America's embedded history of oppression.

² Pavements is a complex but hilariously multifaceted riff on the typical kinds of music vanity projects we usually get, including artist-sanctioned documentaries, jukebox stage musicals, or self-important biographical dramas like Bohemian Rhapsody.

³ Friendship [resembles] a nightmarish combination of an extended version of Tim Robinson's very funny sketch comedy show, I Think You Should Leave, and the adult male friendship premise of Paul Rudd's I Love You, Man, the darkly absurdist bromance film turns sour for a sidesplitting experience that's filmed deadly seriously like a serious crime thriller.


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