The Best Films of 2025
If you know where to look, there were plenty of good films in 2025. (Maybe you’ll find new discoveries here.)
Film-Forward
Rental Family
An earnest, though innocuous, feel-good movie for the armchair traveler.
The Tale of Silyan | TIFF 2025
A compelling and moving portrait of a vanishing way of life in North Macedonia.
The Testament of Ann Lee | TIFF 2025
Director Mona Fastvold combines two “unforgiving” genres—the biopic and the musical—and focuses on a relatively unknown historical figure: the founder of the Shaker movement.
Blue Heron, Glenrothan, Sink, The Smashing Machine | TIFF 2025
With more than 200 feature films playing out over 11 days, and depending on the viewer’s stamina, there are countless variations of what to see.
The Blue Trail/Calle Málaga | TIFF 2025
You are never too old to undergo a rite of passage.
Hen | TIFF 2025
A plucky (sorry) protagonist’s odyssey in Greece.
No Other Choice | TIFF 2025
Director Park Chan-wook takes as his blueprint Donald E Westlake’s lean and mean bloodbath The Ax (1997) and makes the macabre and cynical tale his own.
