The 10 best films of 2025: the top editors of “Philosophie magazine”

Which films from the year 2025 should you see? Cedric Enjalbert et Ariane Nicolaswho co-host the newsletter Philosophy magazine “This is the exit,” said their best-of. A classification without hierarchy, ordered by release date, because good. Come comment on it on social networks!

The texts which accompany this top 10 are taken from our reviews, in a shorter format.

“Afternoons of Solitude”, by Albert Serra

By following the Peruvian matador Andrés Roca Rey, the Spanish filmmaker pursues two metaphysical obsessions. On the one hand, he puts us in the position of the voyeur and makes the gaze the reason for this incursion into the arena. The man stares at the animal in front of an assembly that scrutinizes them: nWe see them seeing and seen. Albert Serra does not take sides either for or against a criticized practice; he rather questions this fascination which, as noted Jean-Toussaint Desanti about “the obscene”pushes us away at the same time as it calls us. On the other hand, the director delivers a wonderful vanitystunned by decomposition and death. Desanti again: “From then on, my eye was captured, as if something terrible and sacred, invisible in the visible, had been inscribed on this wall. » Or on the screen. The film sheet.

“Materialists”, de Celine Song

Can we still believe in love, in a “materialist” society where, on dating applications, human beings are rated like taxi rides? To address this question, Celine Song get into the hard part. She imagines a young woman, a sort of Tinder algorithm in stiletto heels, whose job is to form couples among the New York elite. A ruthless “matcher”, who coldly evaluates every possible quality and compatibility. Courted in turn by a client, a perfect husband on paper, she nevertheless hesitates to reconnect with a youthful love… The film, which gradually becomes more gentle, highlights the psychological suffering of women, torn between the desire for emancipation, the dream of Prince Charming and the cruelty of the marital market. A rom-com brilliant, tender and lucid. The film sheet.