the Best of 2025 So Far: October Edition

I’m now up to 306 films, which does include streaming exclusives, a few festival titles that haven’t released, and a tiny smidge of documentary and animated shorts. All are 2025 releases for all intents and purposes, though festival releases can get pushed back.

the top 25 Films:

#1- deaf President now

#2- Twinless

#3- Tornado

#4- the Parenting

#5- F1: the movie

#6- Lavender Men

#7- My dead Friend Zoey

#8- Sinners

#9- the Assessment

#10- she rides Shotgun

#11- Sovereign

#12- Thunderbolts

#13- Superman

#14- Materialists

#15- Ballerina

#16- Elio

#17- Magazine Dreams

#18- K-Pop Demon Hunters

#19- the Knife

#20- Eleanor The Great

#21- Sorry Baby

#22- The Luckiest man In America

#23- Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy

#24- Bring Her Back

#25- the Thursday Murder Club

Top 10 Best Directors:

#1- Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

#20 Joseph Kosinski (F1)

#3- John McLaine (Tornado)

#4- The Philippo Brothers (Bring Her Back)

#6- Lavell Holder (Lavender Men)

#7- James Sweeney (Twinless)

#8- Duke Johnson (The Actor)

#9- Selene Song (Materialists)

#10- Alex garland and Ray Mendoza (Warfare)

Top 10 Best Actor:

#1- Jonathan Majors (Magazine Dreams)

#2- Paul walterhauser (The luckiest Man In America)

#3- James Sweeney (Twinless)

#4- Roger Q Mason (Lavender Men)

#5- Michael B Jordan (Sinners)

#6- Toby Kebbell (Salvable)

#7- Taron Edgerton (She rides Shotgun)

#8- Geoffrey Rush (The Rule of Jennypen)

#9- Brad Pitt (F1)

#10- Liam Neeson (The naked Gun)

Top 10 Lead Actress

#1- Taraji P Henson (Straw)

#2- Renee Zellweger (Bridget jones: Mad About The Boy)

#3- June Squibb (Eleanor the Great)

#4- Sonequa Martin green (My Dead Friend Zoey)

#5- Anna Sofia Hagar (She rides Shotgun)

#6- Sophie thatcher (companion)

#7- Phoebe Denyver (Inheritance)

#8- Elizabeth Olsen (The Assessment)

#9- Dakota Johnson (Materialists)

#10- Kiko (Tornado)

Top 10 Supporting Actors

#1- Dylan O’Brien (Twinless)

#2- Nick Offerman (Sovereign)

#3- Brian Cox (The Parenting)

#4- John Malkovich (Opus)

#5- Delroy Lindo (Sinners)

#6- David Strathairn (The Luckiest Man In America)

#7- John Lithgow (The Rule of JennyPen)

#8- Mark Hamill (The Life of Chuck)

#9- Diego calva (On swift horses)

#10- Michael Cera (The Phoenician Scheme)

top 10 supporting Actresses:

#1- sally Hawkins (Bring her Back)

#2- Alicia Vikander (The Assessment)

#3- Amy Madigan (Weapons)

#4- Glenn Close (The Summer book)

#5- Melissa leo (The Knife)

#6- Chloe Feinman (The Summer Of 69)

#7- Sherri Shepherd (Straw)

#8- Tiana Taylor (Straw)

#9- Natalie’s morales (My dead Friend Zoey)

#10- Pamela Anderson (The Naked gun)

Top 5 Animated Feature:

#1- Elio

#2- K-Pop demon Hunters

#3- Predator Killer Of Killers

#4- Boys Go to Jupiter

#5- Lost In Starlight

Top 10 Documentary Features:

#1- Deaf President now

#2- Marlee Matlin: not Alone Anymore

#3- Bodyguard of lies

#4- caregiving

#5- trinity

#6- Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

#7- Knockout Blonde

#8- Jeanette

#9- Just Sing

#10- I was Born This way

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