the best films of 2025 according to the editorial staff of “Point”

Philippe Guedj’s top

1) Cry by Oliver Laxe
2) September 5 de Tim Fehlbaum
3) Life of Chuck de Mike Flanagan
4) Avatar: Fire and Ash by James Cameron
5) Fainted de Zach Cregger

A year 2025 unfortunately not very exciting, particularly on the front of pop culture in cinema. Fortunately, in this area or elsewhere, there remain some flashes: the return of James Cameron in great form, an astonishing proposition in the horror department (fainted)the pill of happiness Life of Chuckthe formidable thriller September 5… and the incredible shock Sirât.

Alice Durand’s top

1) Cry d’Oliver Laxe
2) I’m still here by Walter Salles
3) Meteors by Hubert Charuel and Claude Le Pape
4) Wild Fires de Jia Zhang-ke
5) Confidant of the Cyağla Player Giinaoms Jovaetett

A year 2025, it must be said, quite dull. There remain, in the middle of this grayness, a few splinters, one of which clearly stands out above the others: the incredible Crybrilliant in every way, shocking, breathtaking, musical, to be viewed exclusively in the cinema. The rest unfolds, like the family and historical fresco I’m still hereby Walter Salles, the gentle and French Meteorswho captivates with his photography. We also think of the Chinese epic Wild Firesfilmed over more than twenty years by Jia Zhang-ke, or even behind closed doors, political and feminist Confidantin the middle of Istanbul, capable of keeping us in suspense for more than an hour without leaving a character hanging on their phone.

Baudouin Eschapasse’s top

1) Fragments of a love journey by Chloé Barreau
2) The Song of the Forests by Vincent Munier
3) A country in flames by Mona Convert
4) Drugs by Alice Odiot and Jean-Robert Viallet
5) I only had nothingness by Guillaume Ribot

Cinema does not only involve fiction: documentaries also move us. The most moving of the year reveals the thousand ways of loving by Chloé Barreau, who reunites, thirty years later, with the twelve people she loved from her adolescence. The most exotic follows the travels of Vincent Munier and his father between the Vosges and Norway, in the footsteps of the capercaillie. The most poetic captures the life of a family of Landes fireworks makers, creators of summer pyrotechnic shows. The most violent takes us behind the scenes of the Marseille court, where Alice Odiot and Jean-Robert Viallet film the drug hearings. And the most impressive remains the feature film that Guillaume Ribot takes from the “making-of” of Shoahwhose fortieth anniversary is being celebrated this year.

The top of Thomas Graindorge

1) Lonely Afternoons d’Albert Serra
2) One battle after another by Paul Thomas Anderson
3) New wave de Richard Linklater
4) The Unknown of the Grande Arche by Stéphane Demoustier
5) The Little Last d’Hafsia Herzi

The cinematic year 2025 will not be remembered. But it will at least have confirmed the intact talent of the two great filmmakers of their time: Albert Serra (Lonely Afternoons) et Paul Thomas Anderson (One battle after another), while seeing Hafsia Herzi’s (The Little Last). A year that crowned the power of the collective (New wavefinally a good biopic of Jean-Luc Godard), while showing its deep limits (The Unknown of the Grande Archethe anti-Brutalist). It’s a year which proves that cinema is still capable of great dazzling moments.

Nathan Tacchi’s tops

1) Sentimental value the Joachim Trier
2) Cry d’Oliver Laxe
3) One battle after another by Paul Thomas Anderson
4) The Little Last d’Hafsia Herzi
5) The Oslo Trilogy de Dag Johan Haugerud

My year was marked by love and tenderness, with naturalistic nuggets like Sentimental valuemasterful family drama; The Little Lasta delicate portrait of a lesbian awakening; or even The Oslo Trilogya subtle Norwegian triptych on the twists and turns of the feeling of love. Without forgetting two explosive works, Cry et One battle after anotherliterally breathtaking.

David Doucet’s top

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Kangaroo of the day

1) The Brutalist de Brady Corbet
2) One battle after another by Paul Thomas Anderson
3) Cry d’Oliver Laxe
4) Bugonia by Yórgos Lánthimos
5) Mektoub My Love : Canto Due by Abdellatif Kechiche

Open the year with The Brutalist and close it with One battle after anotherit is to feel that we have experienced a year of exceptional cinema: two masterpieces, in my eyes. Cry stands out as an extraordinary cinematic experience, Bugonia confirms Lanthimos’ talent. And with Mektoub My Love : Canto Duewhich we can only hope is not his last film after his unfortunate health problems, Abdellatif Kechiche reminds us that he is one of our greatest filmmakers.