{"id":444989,"date":"2025-12-13T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444989\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:04:15","slug":"indiewires-staff-picks-favorite-films-and-television-shows-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444989\/","title":{"rendered":"IndieWire\u2019s Staff Picks Favorite Films and Television Shows of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tChris O\u2019Falt, VP Features Strategy and Toolkit Host and Executive Producer<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Three big studio projects on this list were \u201crunaway productions,\u201d chaotic, over budget, and at times during their creation considered disasters. One movie was born from failure, another shot guerrilla style under a theocracy, and all were big all-or-nothing swings in what feels like an all-or-nothing moment.<\/p>\n

1. \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d: Sailed right past the discourse that would\u2019ve sunk a merely great version of this film (he writes naively, with three months left in awards season). \u00a0<\/p>\n

2. \u201cBLKNWS: Terms & Conditions\u201d:\u00a0CNN via YouTube via Godard via Black academia via the most innovative filmmaker alive.<\/p>\n

3. \u201cEddington\u201d: Ari Aster anthropomorphizes the internet, circa June 2020.<\/p>\n

4. \u201cSentimental Value\u201d: The best script of year, maybe the decade, sticking an emotionally complex ending without a word.<\/p>\n

5. \u201cIt Was Just an Accident\u201d: Giving \u201cno notes\u201d new meaning.<\/p>\n

6. \u201cSinners\u201d:\u00a0Six movies in one, there\u2019s no logical reason all these ingredients should fit into such a joyous, terrifying, satisfying whole. The clarity and confidence to take a swing this big\u2026 is Coogler becoming our Coppola?<\/p>\n

7. \u201cThe Naked Gun\u201d: If any \u201cserious\u201d film was constructed with this level of precision the Academy would be showing more leg than Liam Neeson in his schoolgirl skirt.<\/p>\n

8. \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d: This Is America.<\/p>\n

9. \u201cZodiac Killer Project\u201d: \u201cCameraperson\u201d meets true crime.<\/p>\n

10. \u201cSirat\u201d: When I wasn\u2019t overwhelmed by the need to throw my shoe at the screen, I was in awe.<\/p>\n

#11.\u00a0 _______ left blank for the inevitable great film made by one of my favorite directors whose newest work I shamefully still haven\u2019t seen:\u00a0 \u201cBelow the Clouds\u201d (Gianfranco Rosi), \u201cDie My Love\u201d (Lynne Ramsay), \u201cFather Mother Sister Brother\u201d (Jim Jarmusch), \u201cNo Other Choice\u201d (Park Chan-wook), \u201cResurrection\u201d (Bi Gan), \u201cThe Secret Agent\u201d (Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho), \u201cSound of Falling\u201d (Mascha Schilinski).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions:\u00a0 \u201cApril,\u201d \u201cThe Chronology of Water,\u201d \u201cEeuphus,\u201d \u201cFriendship,\u201d \u201cHamnet,\u201d \u201cJay Kelly,\u201d \u201cMickey 17,\u201d \u201cNouvelle Vague,\u201d \u201cThe Smashing Machine,\u201d \u201cThe Shrouds,\u201d \u201cThe Testament of Ann Lee,\u201d \u201cTrain Dreams,\u201d \u201cWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,\u201d and \u201cWeapons,\u201d all of which could have easily made a Top 10 list in recent prior years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris O\u2019Falt, VP Features Strategy and Toolkit Host and Executive Producer Image Credit: \u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection Three big…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10802,171,1020,53,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-444989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-best-of-2025","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115713821313270461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}