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The 10 Best Movies of 2025 (So Far)
2025 is halfway done, and already there have been no shortage of great films. Variety critics Owen Gleiberman and Peter Debruge name their favorites.
In their second feature, the Australian YouTube-horror-comedy-pranksters-turned-filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou (“Talk to Me”) find terrifying ways to get under your skin, pushing everything to the brink of transgression, using domestic trauma to create a symphonic projection of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, all sealed by Hawkins’ gargoyle grin of evil. Image Credit: Room 8 Films South Korean genre hits like “Squid Game” and “Parasite” have proven so popular in recent years that audiences no longer need convincing to check out some of the country’s most compelling new exports — though Hur Jin-ho’s tense, morally thorny drama slipped quietly under the radar this spring. Image Credit: Mia Cioffi Henry By now, A24 fans have probably figured out that the beloved indie studio makes two kinds of films: disruptive WTF shockers, like “Spring Breakers” and “Hereditary” (what I call “bizart-house movies”), and sensitive contemporary dramas, à la “Past Lives” and “Moonlight” (whose director, Barry Jenkins, serves as a producer on Eva Victor’s Sundance-launched debut).
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