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\n Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent.<\/p>\n
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When filmmakers are cranking out blockbusters, Tinseltown can seem like any other business \u2014 customer satisfaction measured in popcorn sales and audience smiles. But when filmmakers are passionate, movies can make audiences vibrate \u2014 with grief, with excitement, with rage. And that happened a lot this year.<\/p>\n
These 10 films connected when they took really big swings. They hail from gratifyingly divergent perspectives, grapple differently with history and art, aim for diverse audiences, and are \u2014 without exception \u2014 passion projects worth seeking out on the biggest possible screen.<\/p>\n
Ten best films of 2025 <\/p>\n One Battle After Another<\/a><\/p>\n The Secret Agent<\/a><\/p>\n It Was Just an Accident<\/a><\/p>\n Marty Supreme<\/a><\/p>\n Hamnet<\/a><\/p>\n Sinners<\/a><\/p>\n The Voice of Hind Rajab<\/a><\/p>\n Sentimental Value<\/a><\/p>\n Train Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n Frankenstein<\/a><\/p>\n Among the other movies I admired, and urge you to see \u2014 ideally with an audience, when possible: A House of Dynamite<\/a>, Sirat<\/a>, Blue Moon<\/a>, No Other Choice<\/a>, Bugonia<\/a>, Father Mother Sister Brother<\/a>, Is This Thing On?<\/a>, Grand Theft Hamlet<\/a>, Architecton<\/a>, Come See Me In The Good Light<\/a>, Hedda<\/a>, Sorry, Baby<\/a>, Wake Up Dead Man<\/a>, and Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent. NEON hide caption toggle caption NEON When filmmakers are cranking out blockbusters,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-381482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Clockwise](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767141008_639_.jpeg\")
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