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It's a Wrap: 2025 in Film

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LWLies presents a contributor roundup of 2025’s best films and filmmakers.

We don’t usually do the end-of-year wrap thing, and in previous years we’ve settled for a little preview of our annual Top 10. Yet the thought occurred that it’s much nicer to showcase the immaculate tastes of our well-turned-out critical faculty than it is to gaze down at the ol’ navel once more. 

To keep things lively, we asked for a straight-up Top Five – no muss, no fuss, just the best things you’ve seen. Things you’d recommend to your friends and relatives. Things you may have gone and seen multiple times. Things you might end up buying on physical media. Things that reminded you why you would die (or maybe suffer grevious injury) for cinema. 

As an avid supporter and encourager of film craft, we then asked for a shout-out to a notable below-the-line artisan. In the acting stakes, we were after opinions on the old guard still out there earning a crust, and which of the new school will soon be nipping at their heels. Then we want to know best non-fiction film, and also best physical release of the year, as it’s been a banner year for the boutique Blu-ray labels. 

We then wanted to know which trashy film they loved and which prestige film they hated – controversial categories for sure, but if Hollywood is allowed to partition and compartmentalise films in this way, then so are we. Then, to round things off – and this is perhaps the most important part of the survey – we asked for a little wish to be sent to the cinema of 2026. 

We present to you these lists in the order in which they were received. I thank all our contributors from the bottom of my heart, and thanks to you, the reader, for sticking with us and with print media. – David Jenkins, Editor

Bearded man in grey flat cap and brown jacket standing beside car on snowy street with buildings in background.

Jake Cole

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

The Fishing Place (Rob Tregenza)

Cinematographer of the year

Chris Blauvelt, The Mastermind

Below the line

Beth Mickle (Production Designer, Superman)

Old guard

Leonardo DiCaprio

New school

David Corenswet

Best non-fiction

Predators (David Osit)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Eddington (Ari Aster) 

Great picture... I hated it!

Eddington (not a mistype)

Physical media release of 2025

A Better Tomorrow trilogy (Shout! Factory)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

More films, good and bad, actually reckoning with our current state of dead-end tech/brainrot.

 

Lillian Crawford

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)

The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)

Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

Cinematographer of the year

Rui Poças, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Gui Liang (Grand Tour)

Below the line

Rob Mazurek for the coolest soundtrack of the year (The Mastermind)

Old guard

I for one thought it was delightful to see Gary Oldman in Parthenope.

New school

Cast Eva Victor in everything.

Best non-fiction

Of the films I saw, The Memory Blocks and Life After are extraordinary. But the best given a theatrical release is Riefenstahl.

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Great picture... I hated it!

Ugh, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End

Physical media release of 2025

Chantal Akerman Collection: Vol 1

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

May the ghost of Emily Brontë rise up to haunt Emerald Fennell and her descendants until the end of time.

 

Billie Walker

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Happyend (Neo Sora)

Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi)

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Cinematographer of the year

Woo-hyung Kim (No Other Choice

Below the line

Anna Lynch Robinson (Set Decorator, Black Bag, particularly for the dinner scene)

Old guard

Pamela Anderson

New school

Chase Infiniti

Best non-fiction

Zodiac Killer Project (Charlie Shackleton)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Dangerous Animals (Sean Byrne)

Great picture... I hated it!

Bring Her Back (Danny and Michael Philippou)

Physical media release of 2025

Amadeus 4K restoration

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

Bury the hag once and for all!

 

Yasmine Kandil

Five personal favourite films of 2025

To a Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel)

Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)

Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)

No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)

Urchin (Harris Dickinson)

Cinematographer of the year

James Friend (Ballad of a Small Player)

Below the line

Robbie Taylor Hunt (Intimacy coordinator, Pillion)

Old guard

Emma Stone

New school

Chase Infiniti

Best non-fiction

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Happy Gilmore 2 (Kyle Newacheck) 

Great picture... I hated it!

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Kogonada) 

Physical media release of 2025

Anora (Criterion Collection)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

For all films funded by streamers to have a long and prosperous wide theatrical release before being sent to streaming purgatory.

 

Lucy Peters

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman)

Zodiac Killer Project (Charlie Shackleton)

It’s Not Me (Leos Carax)

Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir)

Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)

Cinematographer of the year

Michael Bauman (One Battle After Another)

Below the line

The 4K re-release of Picnic At Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) was a great moment to celebrate costume designer Judith Dorsman (who was only 26 at the time of the film's release).

Old guard

Ben Whishaw keeps it rolling.

New school

Chase Infiniti

Best non-fiction

Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir) 

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Moss & Freud (James Lucas) 

Great picture... I hated it!

Eddington (Ari Aster)

Physical media release of 2025

In My Skin (Marina de Van, 2005) 

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

For the versatile biopic to keep on expanding and to see even more radical documentary produce impactful, progressive dialogue beyond the screen.

Cluttered interior of a van, with a woman sitting on a couch and a man standing. Varied colours and shapes, with items scattered throughout the space.

Fatima Sheriff

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou)

Hedda (Nia DaCosta)

Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

Cinematographer of the year

Adolpho Veloso (Train Dreams)

Below the line

Suhayla El-Bushra (Screenwriter, Brides).

Old Guard

Benicio del Toro

New School

Cooper Hoffman

Best non-fiction

Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (Ruben Fleischer)

Great picture... I hated it!

Magellan (Lav Diaz)

Physical media release of 2025

Crossing Delancey (Criterion Collection)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

More original storytelling in blockbusters.

 

Iana Murray

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

Happyend (Neo Sora)

Cover-Up (Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus)

Little Trouble Girls (Urška Djukić)

Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Cinematographer of the year

Woo-hyung Kim (No Other Choice)

Below the line

Ruth E Carter (Costume Designer, Sinners)

Old guard

Benicio del Toro

New school

Chase Infiniti

Best non-fiction

Cover-Up

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Heart Eyes

Great picture... I hated it!

The History of Sound

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

Please retire the ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ needle drop.

 

Rógan Graham

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Dry Leaf (Aleksandre Koberidze)

The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Hedda (Nia DaCosta)

Bad Apples (Jonatan Etzler)

The Ban (Roisin Agnew) 

Cinematographer of the year

Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)

Below the line

Seamus McGarvey (Cinematographer, Die My Love)

Old guard

Stellan Skarsgård

New school

David Jonsson

Best non-fiction

A Want in Her (Myrid Carten) 

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Freakier Friday (Nisha Ganatra) 

Great picture... I hated it!

Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

Physical media release of 2025

Crossing Delancey (Criterion Collection)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

For all cinema/film workers to be able to pay our bills doing what we love.

 

David Jenkins

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)

Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)

Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)

The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)

Cinematographer of the year

Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Sinners)

Below the line

Robert Pattinson’s voice coach for Mickey 17 [404, page not found].

Old guard

Gotta be Benicio del Toro as the sensei.

New school

Mia Threapleton

Best non-fiction

Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) 

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

A Minecraft Movie (Jared Hess) 

Great picture... I hated it!

The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)

Physical media release of 2025

Chantal Akerman BFI box sets x 2, In My Skin and Rosa la rose (Radiance)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

No more boxing movies. Ever again. Please. I’m begging you. But more Naked Gun movies please. And heat death to AI, obvs.

 

Mike McCahill

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)

Homebound (Neeraj Ghaywan)

Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Roofman (Derek Cianfrance)

Cinematographer of the year

Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Sinners)

Below the line

Melwy J, the costume designer stitching witty clues within the pop-art worldbuilding of Malayalam hit Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (Dominic Arun).

Old guard

Mohanlal and Prakash Varma, duelling antagonists of dude-where's-my-car thriller Thudarum (Tharun Moorthy); Fionnula Flanagan, Dearbhla Molloy, Stella McCusker and Paddy Glynn, golden girls of Four Mothers (Darren Thornton).

New school

Jacob Elordi, a moving Monster in Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro), but even better as the dissolute gambler keeping his cards close to his chest in On Swift Horses (Daniel Minahan); Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda, whose directness of expression cut through the soapier melodrama of Bollywood hit Saiyaara (Mohit Suri).

Best non-fiction

Holloway (Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

F1 (Joseph Kosinski) 

Great picture... I hated it!

Eddington (Ari Aster)

Physical media release of 2025

The BFI's brush-up of Slade in Flame (Richard Loncraine, 1975), revealed as a vivid time capsule and a trenchant slice of life.

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

Greater variety in the multiplexes; some much-needed art-house hits; more adventurous re-releases to fill any gaps.

Two men in period attire - one in a blue cap, the other in a cowboy hat - stand next to a vintage car in a rural setting.

Emma Fraser

Five Personal Favourites of 2026

Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

Tornado (John Maclean)

28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Cinematographer of the year

Łukasz Żal (Hamnet)

Below the Line

Kate Hawley (Costume Designer, Frankenstein)

Old Guard

Ralph Fiennes

New School 

Rhenzy Feliz 

Best non-fiction

Come See Me in the Good Light (Ryan White) 

It's F****in’ Trash… I Loved It!

Drop (Chistopher Landon)

Great Picture… I Hated it!

I don't really have an answer for this :/

Physical Media Release of the 2025

Inglorious Basterds 4K (Arrow) 

A (short) New Year’s Wish for the Cinema of 2026…

More blooper reels in the end credits.

 

Anton Bitel

Five personal favourite films of 2025

The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović)

Freaky Tales (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck)

Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)

Bring Her Back (Danny & Michael Philippou)

The Ugly Stepsister (Emilie Blichfeldt)

Cinematographer of the year

Jonathan Ricquebourg (The Ice Tower)

Below the line

Geoff Redknap (Puppeteer, The Monkey)

Old guard

Daniel Day-Lewis

New school

Everyone from The Long Walk

Best non-fiction

Riefenstahl (Andres Veiel)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Final Destination: Bloodlines (Zach Lipovsky & Adam B Stein)

Great picture... I hated it!

After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)

Physical media release of 2025

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Arrow)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

More original IPs (ie fewer sequels, remakes, etc.)

 

Katherine McLaughlin

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Good One (India Donaldson)

It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)

Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

Weapons (Zach Cregger)

No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)

Cinematographer of the year

Hélène Louvart (Motel Destino)

Below the line

Aakomon Jones (Choreographer, Sinners)

Old guard

Josh Brolin

New school

David Jonsson

Best non-fiction

Ultras (Ragnhild Ekner)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Final Destination: Bloodlines (Zach Lipovsky & Adam B Stein)

Great picture... I hated it!

La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacios)

Physical media release of 2025

Carnal Knowledge (Indicator)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

Release The Poet in the UK! It’s hilarious and wonderfully performed.

 

Marina Ashioti

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Happyend (Neo Sora)

The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Cinematographer of the year

Gui Liang, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Rui Poças (Grand Tour)

Below the line

Lia Ouyang Rusli (Composer, Happyend, Sorry, Baby)

Jørgen Stangebye Larsen (Production designer, Sentimental Value)

Old guard

Emma Stone

New school

Eva Victor

Best non-fiction

Direct Action (Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Superman (James Gunn)

Great picture... I hated it!

Sinners (Ryan Coogler) 

Physical media release of 2025

Rosa la rose, fille publique (Radiance)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

Less AI and IP slop.

 

Laura Venning

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari)

Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)

Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

Cinematographer of the year

William Rexer (The Testament of Ann Lee)

Old guard

Stellan Skarsgård or Sissy Spacek

New school

Maggie the dog from Pillion 

Best non-fiction

Cover-Up (Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Trash is a strong word but I had a simply fantastic time with The Naked Gun 

Great picture... I hated it!

Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)

Physical media release of 2025

Häxan (Radiance)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

That Frank Oz returns to perform Miss Piggy for the JLaw/E Stone film.

Two women lying on rocky ground in shadow, one wearing grey jumper and jeans, other in blue jacket and purple trousers.

Emily Maskell

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)

Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)

On Falling (Laura Carreira)

Cinematographer of the year 

Darius Khondji (Mickey 17)

Below the line

Léo Silly-Pélissier (Animation director, Flow)

Old guard

Stellan Skarsgård

New school

Chase Infiniti

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Great picture... I hated it!

KPop Demon Hunters

Physical media release of 2025

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Criterion Collection)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

For women directors behind fantastic debuts to get backing for their second films!

 

Josh Slater-Williams

Five personal favourite films of 2025

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Super Happy Forever (Kohei Igarashi)

The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)

Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Cinematographer of the year

Michael Bauman (One Battle After Another)

Below the line

Lloyd and Rose Buck (Hawk trainers for H is for Hawk)

Old guard

Delroy Lindo

New school

Lily Collias (Good One, Roofman) 

Best non-fiction

The Encampments

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

I don’t really subscribe to this notion, but... Final Destination: Bloodlines?

Great picture... I hated it!

Anemone is pretty good for the first 25 minutes or so. After that...

Physical media release of 2025

Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami (Third Window Films)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

No more studio mergers. Hell, break up some of the existing mergers.

 

Willow Maclay

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Eephus (Carson Lund)

The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

Castration Movie Anthology II: The Best of Both Worlds (Louise Weard)

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Cinematography

Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Sinners)

Below the line

Ruth E Carter (Costume designer, Sinners)

Old guard

Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte

New school

Alexandria Walton and Ivy Wolk

Best non-fiction

Mutineer (Scout Tafoya)

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay) 

Great picture... I hated it!

Weapons (Zach Cregger) 

Physical media release of 2025

A New Leaf 4K (OCN)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

A total rejection of generative AI.

 

Tom Huddleston

Five personal favourite films of 2025

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

Sirat (Oliver Laxe)

It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi)

Cinematographer of the year

Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Sinners)

Below the line

Paul Katte and Nick Nicolaou (Special makeup effects designers, Bring Her Back), that shit was fucking gnarly.

Old guard

Benicio del Toro – just adorable in OBAA.

New school

Harry Melling, inevitably.

Best non-fiction

The Voice of Hind Rajab

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

I reject the premise of the category, but I guess Wake Up Dead Man?

Great picture... I hated it!

The Phoenician Scheme

Physical media release of 2025

The Conversation StudioCanal box set.

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

One decent tentpole blockbuster, for the love of God.

 

Esmé Holden

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)

28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing)

Cent mille milliards (Virgil Vernier)

Cinematographer of the year

Nothing from this year comes close to Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985), which got a beautiful new 4K restoration and re-release this year, and so technically counts.

Below the line

Every Union organiser, especially those fighting the slop wave of AI.

Old guard

Ralph Fiennes (28 Years Later)

New school

Despite nepo-baby credentials, Mia Threapleton proves she’s the genuine article in The Phoenician Scheme.

Best non-fiction

Being John Smith (John Smith), a mediation on the avant-garde directors boring name and the imminence of death; very true of the British psyche in its constant self-deprecation and introverted disappointment at life. 

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

Baby Invasion (Harmony Korine) embraces the slop world we live in, mostly for the worse, but I couldn’t look away. Like a night lost to Instagram Reels; addictively bleak and pointless. 

Great picture... I hated it!

One Battle After Another, for as accomplished and thrilling as it often is, PTA pushes up against the limits of his own ideas and comes out looking comfortably self-defeating and a little petite bourgeois. 

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

If movies can look just a little more beautiful next year, and then that trend continues every year, then in a few decades we might be able to get back to the standard we used to be at.

Three people walking through a dense, overgrown landscape surrounded by tangled branches and foliage.

Hannah Strong

Five personal favourite films of 2025

The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)

Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)

Predators (David Osit)

Cinematographer of the year

Seamus McGarvey (Die My Love)

Below the line

Diana Choi (Wigmaker, The Smashing Machine)

Old guard

A tie between Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another) and Chris Cooper (The History of Sound)

New school

Abel Ferrara. Kid’s going places.

It’s f***kin’ trash but I loved it

The Monkey

Great picture... I hated it!

I don’t think it’s great either but Sirāt. I hate Sirāt.

Physical media release of 2025

A New Leaf, or if you want one I'm not on, Curzon's very cool Michael Haneke box set.

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

Less studio interference – let filmmakers cook! Cast actors who don’t look like they just shot their fifth TikTok of the day. Recruitment drive for colourists. R-Pattz doing insane accents in The Odyssey and Dune 3. Electric shocks for anyone who checks their phone in the cinema.

 

Juan Barquin

Five personal favourite films of 2025

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)

Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Michael Morris)

Castration Movie Anthology II: The Best of Both Worlds (Louise Weard)

Cinematographer of the year

Gui Liang, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Rui Poças (Grand Tour)

Below the line

Colleen Atwood (come thruuuu OBAA costuming!!!)

Old guard

RENÉE ZELLWEGER!!! (catch me defending her to my death rn)

New school

Chase Infiniti

Best non-fiction

BLKNWS (Kahlil Joseph)

Physical media release of 2025

Essential Polish Animation (Radiance)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

More bold, brash queer cinema being handed distribution deals.

 

Rafa Sales Ross

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)

The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart)

Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)

Plainclothes (Carmen Emmi)

Cinematographer of the year

Mark Jenkin (Rose of Nevada)

Below the line

Jackye Fauconnier (Costume designer, Reflection in a Dead Diamond)

Old Guard

Udo Kier, one of the best to ever do it, who left us still too early after a brilliant cameo in The Secret Agent.

New School

Chase Infiniti

Best non-fiction

A Want in Her (Myrid Carten) 

It's F**in’ Trash But I Loved It

The Wrong Paris (no shame whatsoever)

Great picture... I hated it!

Splitsville (torturous)

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

For it to spark conversation, not just reaction.

 

Sophie Monks-Kaufman

Five personal favourite films of 2025

Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)

Alpha (Julia Ducournau)

Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)

Vainilla (Mayra Hermosillo)

Cinematographer of the year

Tie between Jonathan Ricquebourg (The Ice Tower) and Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Sinners)

Below the line

Oh man, I was hoping to shout out an unknown but Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein edited Marty Supreme. As great as  Timothée Chalamet’s performance is, it’s the editing that pushes him into sublime territory

Old Guard

Sally Hawkins, I had to switch off Bring Her Back you were that disturbing (compliment)

New School

A tie between Clara Pacini (The Ice Tower) and Safiyya Ingar (Brides).

Best non-fiction

Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story

It's F**in’ Trash But I Loved It

Materialists (Celine Song) 

Great picture... I hated it!

Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay). “Hate” is strong, it was just a steep tumble after four perfect films.

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

More bold, beautiful, personal swings; more spaces to have cinema experiences where we can sit with things we don’t understand; more resources for me personally to develop my own work :)

 

Kambole Campbell

Five personal favourite films of 2025

The Last Blossom (Baku Kinoshita)

Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)

28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

Resurrection (Bi Gan)

Below the line

Jennifer Venditti (Casting director)

Old Guard

Delroy Lindo

New School

Chase Infiniti

Best non-fiction

The Voice of Hind Rijab

It's F**in’ Trash But I Loved It

M3GAN 2.0

Physical media release of 2025

Treasures of Soviet Animation – Deaf Crocodile

A wish for the cinema of 2026...

Longer theatrical runs for everything, but especially animation.



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