My Top 20 Films of 2025 – very loosely ranked because ranking things stresses me out! – of titles to appear on the UK’s official FDA release schedule between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025. The complete list is also up on my Letterboxd, but here it is for your perusal and/or pleasure (starting with my favourite):

1. Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story (Sinéad O’Shea, 2024)
2. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh, 2024)
3. Blue Moon (Richard Linklater, 2025)
4. Misericordia (Miséricorde) (Alain Guiraudie, 2024)
5. Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor, 2025) [above]
6. Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025)
7. The Ice Tower (La tour de glace) (Lucille Hadžihalilović, 2025)
8. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)
9. Homebound (Neeraj Ghaywan, 2025)
10. Roofman (Derek Cianfrance, 2025)
11. Friendship (Andrew DeYoung, 2024)
12. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, 2025)
13. Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi), (Joachim Trier, 2025)
14. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg, 2024)
15. The Mastermind (The Mastermind, 2025)
16. The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer, 2025)
17. On Falling (Laura Carreira, 2024)
18. Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (Dominic Arum , 2025)
19. The Ballad of Wallis Island (James Griffiths, 2025)
20. F1 (Joseph Kosinski, 2025)