Chlotrudis Awards members were invited to share their Top movie lists of 2025 on the website. See what various members chose as their top films of the year. See how many of their favorites made the final ballot. See if your tastes coincide with any particular Chlotrudis member. If you’re a member, send in your Top films of the year and we’ll include it here.

 

Peg Aloi’s Top 51 of 2025

The Testament of Ann Lee
The Testament of Ann Lee
  1. The Testament of Ann Lee
  2. Hamnet
  3. Sinners
  4. The Chronology of Water
  5. Peter Hujar’s Day
  6. Frankenstein
  7. Sentimental Value
  8. Eddington
  9. Die My Love
  10. Dead Man’s Wire
  11. Train Dreams
  12. Weapons
  13. The Choral
  14. Resurrection
  15. One Battle After Another
  16. Bugonia
  17. Plainclothes
  18. Cover Up
  19. No Other Choice
  20. Bring Her Back
  21. To Kill a Wolf
  22. The Plague
  23. Sorry, Baby
  24. Hedda

 

Aaron Beatty’s Top 25 Films of 2025

Deaf President now
Deaf President Now!
  1. Deaf President Now!
  2. Train Dreams
  3. Familiar Touch
  4. Rebuilding
  5. The Voice of Hind Rajab
  6. Predators
  7. The Perfect Neighbor
  8. Sound of Falling
  9. Jazzy
  10. The Chronology of Water
  11. Come See Me in the Good Light
  12. A Nice Indian Boy
  13. Mistress Dispeller
  14. The Plague
  15. Night Call
  16. Blue Moon
  17. A Little Prayer
  18. The Long Walk
  19. Bob Trevino Likes It
  20. Warfare
  21. Sentimental Value
  22. Nouvelle Vague
  23. April
  24. Sirāt
  25. Next Sohee

Best horror: Final Destination: Bloodlines
Best blockbuster: F1
Most unexpected comedic gem: Good Fortune
Best action sequences: 40 Acres
Most overrated:  Sinners
Most infuriating ending: Marty Supreme
Most intrusive score: Highest 2 Lowest
Most unfairly overlooked: Christy
Most distractingly WTF (in a good way) supporting performance: Michael Stuhlbarg in After the Hunt
Most disturbing cat: The Secret Agent
Most gleeful act of audience torture: Sirāt
Best punctuation mark in a title: Sorry, Baby
Best recurring needle drops: Night Call

 

VJ Beauchamp’s Top 51 of 2025

the mastermind
The Mastermind
  1. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
  2. The Testament of Ann Lee
  3. The Mastermind
  4. Universal Language
  5. It Was Just An Accident
  6. The Sound of Falling
  7. Joan of Arc
  8. Sorry, Baby
  9. Where to Land
  10. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
  11. Monk in Pieces
  12. Sentimental Value
  13. Evil Puddle
  14. No Other Choice
  15. D(e)ad
  16. Black Bag
  17. One Battle After Another
  18. Sinners
  19. Weapons
  20. Wake Up Dead Man
  21. Twinless
  22. Bugonia
  23. Mr Nobody Against Putin
  24. A Poet
  25. Father Mother Sister Brother
  26. Sunfish (and other stories on Green Lake)
  27. Queens of the Dead
  28. Rock, Weed & Wheels (Autos, Mota y Rocanrol)
  29. Pee Wee as Himself
  30. Superman
  31. The Last Class
  32. Underground Orange
  33. A Private Life
  34. Nouvelle Vague
  35. The Wedding Banquet
  36. The Brutalist
  37. Frankenstein
  38. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  39. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
  40. Mickey 17
  41. Magic Farm
  42. Resurrection
  43. Chronology of Water
  44. 25 Cats from Qatar
  45. Materialists
  46. The Phoenician Scheme
  47. Another Annette Bening Mug
  48. I am Frankelda
  49. Fantastic 4: First Steps
  50. I know Catherine the Log Lady
  51. Hancock Park

 

Adam Bernstein’s Top 25 Films of 2025

Train Dreams
Train Dreams
  1. Train Dreams
  2. Resurrection
  3. Universal Language
  4. Weapons
  5. Sentimental Value
  6. Late Shift
  7. Marty Supreme
  8. Black Bag
  9. Next Sohee
  10. One Battle After Another
  11. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  12. It Was Just An Accident
  13. Left-Handed Girl
  14. Predators
  15. Souleymane’s Story
  16. Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
  17. The Plague
  18. Reflections in a Dead Diamond
  19. Sirāt
  20. Mitski: The Land
  21. Night Call
  22. Companion
  23. 28 Years Later
  24. Sorry, Baby
  25. Wake Up, Dead Man

 

Julie Blumenthal’s Top Films of 2025 (in alphabetical order)

East of Wall
East of Wall
  • 40 Acres
  • Angel headed hipster
  • A Nice Indian Boy
  • Blue Sun Palace
  • Bob Trevino likes it
  • Borderline
  • Bugonia
  • Come See Me in the Good Light
  • Dead Mail
  • Deaf President Now!
  • East of Wall
  • Familiar Touch
  • Hedda
  • History of Sound
  • If I Had Shoes I’d Kick You
  • It was just an accident
  • It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
  • Invention
  • Left Handed Girl
  • Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
  • Matt and Mara
  • Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
  • Mistress Dispeller
  • Next Sohee
  • No Other Choice
  • No other land
  • Oceans Are the Real Continents
  • Pavements
  • Peacock
  • The Plague
  • Plainclothes
  • Porcelain wars
  • Predators
  • Rebuilding
  • Rental Family
  • Secret Mall Apt
  • Sentimental Value
  • Sister midnight
  • Sorry, baby
  • Souleman’s Story
  • Thank you very much
  • The Assessment
  • The Knife
  • The Mastermind
  • The Secret Agent
  • To Kill A Wolf
  • Train Dreams
  • Twinless
  • Universal Language
  • We Strangers
  • Zodiac Killer Project

 

Michael Colford’s Top Movies of 2025

april
April
  1. Universal Language
  2. It Was Just An Accident
  3. April
  4. Rebuilding
  5. Plainclothes
  6. Julie Keeps Quiet
  7. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  8. Next Sohee
  9. Hedda
  10. Left-Handed Girl
  11. The Assessment
  12. Where to Stand
  13. Caught by the Tides
  14. Souleymane’s Story
  15. Resurrection
  16. The Mastermind
  17. East of Wall
  18. A Little Prayer
  19. Blue Sun Palace
  20. The Voice of Hind Rajab
  21. Fantastic 4: First Steps
  22. We Strangers
  23. The History of Sound
  24. A Traveler’s Needs
  25. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  26. Peacock
  27. Is This Thing On?
  28. Weapons
  29. Sorry, Baby
  30. Oceans Are the Real Continents
  31. No Other Choice
  32. Misericordia
  33. Train Dreams
  34. Jazzy
  35. A Nice Indian Boy
  36. Dead Mail
  37. The Testament of Ann Lee
  38. The Secret Agent
  39. September 5
  40. Suze
  41. An Unfinished Film
  42. Familiar Touch
  43. Bob Trevino Likes It
  44. I’m Still Here
  45. Father Mother Sister Brother
  46. Viet and Nam
  47. Ponyboi
  48. To Kill a Wolf
  49. The Girl with the Needle
  50. Invention

Michael’s Top Docs of 2025

heightened scrutiny
Heightened Scrutiny
  1. Heightened Scrutiny
  2. Porcelain War
  3. No Other Land
  4. In the Whale: The Greatest Fish Story Ever Told
  5. Deaf President Now!
  6. Come See Me in the Good Light
  7. Predators
  8. Simple Minds: Everything is Possible
  9. Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
  10. Lillith Fair: Building a Mystery
  11. The Librarians
  12. Every Little Thing
  13. Mistress Dispeller

 

Cobi Frangillo’s Top 20 of 2025

the secret agent
The Secret Agent
  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Marty Supreme
  3. The Secret Agent
  4. No Other Choice
  5. Bugonia
  6. Splitsville
  7. Avatar: Fire and Ash
  8. Universal Language
  9. Hamnet
  10. It Was Just An Accident
  11. Sorry, Baby
  12. Die My Love
  13. The Mastermind
  14. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  15. Sinners
  16. Deaf President Now!
  17. The Ballad Of Wallis Island
  18. Sentimental Value
  19. Lurker
  20. Train Dreams

Honorable Mentions: Materialists, Roofman, Left-Handed Girl, Peacock

 

Jessica’s Personal Highlights of 2025 (in no particular order)

Narratives

sirat
Sirāt
  • The Plague
  • Train Dreams
  • Sirāt
  • Eddington
  • Griffin in Summer
  • Sorry Baby
  • Twinless
  • Bunny
  • The Life of Chuck
  • The Testament of Ann Lee
  • 28 Years Later
  • Warfare
  • Twinless
  • East of Wall
  • The Virgin of the Quarry Lake
  • Brides
  • The Things You Kill
  • Rains Over Babel
  • The Naked Gun
  • The Long Walk
  • Queens of the Dead
  • Left Handed Girl
  • She’s The He
  • The Voice of Hind Rajab
  • Anniversary
  • Sugar Island
  • Bionico’s Bachata
The Perfect Neighbor

Documentaries

  • Corey Feldman vs The World
  • BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
  • The Alabama Solution
  • The Perfect Neighbor
  • WTO/99
  • Comparsa
  • Shuffle
  • Natchez
  • Magic City: An American Fantasy
  • River of Grass
  • The Librarians

Chris Kriofske’s Top 20 of 2020

Universal Language
Universal Language
  1. Universal Language
  2. Resurrection
  3. Deaf President Now!
  4. The Secret Agent
  5. It Was Just an Accident
  6. One Battle After Another
  7. Caught by the Tides
  8. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  9. Rebuilding
  10. Weapons
  11. The Mastermind
  12. No Other Land
  13. Next Sohee
  14. Train Dreams
  15. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  16. Blue Moon
  17. Twinless
  18. Plainclothes
  19. April
  20. Oceans Are the Real Continents
  21. Dead Mail
  22. Eephus
  23. Henry Ford for President
  24. Hedda
  25. Familiar Touch
  26. We Strangers
  27. Misericordia
  28. Blue Sun Palace
  29. The Testament of Ann Lee
  30. The Plague
Best Short: Papillon (Butterfly)
Best Miniseries that one can log on Letterboxd: Pee Wee As Himself
Best Festival Films to become eligible in 2026: The Love That Remains, Sound of Falling
Biggest Letdowns: Superman, Frankenstein. No more remakes, please! (Unless they’re batshit insane like Radu Jude’s Dracula.)

 

Tom Meek’s Top Movies of 2025

sentimental value
Sentimental Value
  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Sentimental Value
  3. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  4. Nouvelle Vogue
  5. Resurrection
  6. One to One: John & Yoko
  7. Sorry Baby
  8. The Life of Chuck
  9. Left-Handed Girl
  10. Train Dreams
  11. Black Bag
  12. Deaf President Now!
  13. No Other Choice
  14. After the Hunt
  15. Afternoons of Solitude
  16. Alabama Solution
  17. Anemone
  18. Another Day in America
  19. Blue Moon
  20. Die My Love
  21. Eephus
  22. F1: the Movie
  23. Good Fortune
  24. It was Just an Accident
  25. Magazine Dreams
  26. Mastermind
  27. Eden
  28. The Perfect Neighbor

 

Vicki Oleskey’s Top Movies of 2025 (no particular order)

rebuilding
Rebuilding
  • Rebuilding
  • Train Dreams
  • Marilee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
  • I’m Still Here
  • Blue Moon
  • Song Sung Blue
  • 2000 Meters to Andriivka
  • Sentimental Value
  • Sirat
  • The Plague
  • It was Just an Accident
  • Deaf President Now
  • The Testament of An Lee
  • The Voice of Hind Rajab
  • September 5
  • No Other Land
  • Sinners
  • Familiar Touch

 

Jeff Pike’s Top Movies of 2025 

Twinless
Twinless
  1. Twinless
  2. We Strangers
  3. 40 Acres
  4. Gazer
  5. Oceans Are the Real Continents
  6. Universal Language
  7. Eephus
  8. East of Wall
  9. Sentimental Value
  10. Sorry, Baby
  11. It Was Just an Accident
  12. Julie Keeps Quiet
  13. Porcelain War
  14. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  15. Peacock
  16. No Other Land
  17. Weapons
  18. If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You
  19. Seeds
  20. Is This Thing On?
  21. Magic Farm
  22. Deaf President Now!
  23. Extremely Unique Dynamic
  24. In Vitro
  25. Sister Midnight
  26. Sharp Corner
  27. Dead Mail
  28. A Desert
  29. Suze
  30. Secret Mall Apartment
  31. Vulcanizadora

Brett Reliford’s Top Movies of 2025 

blue sun palace
Blue Sun Palace
  1. The Testament of Ann Lee
  2. Blue Sun Palace
  3. Bugonia
  4. A Poet
  5. The Phoenician Scheme
  6. Eddington
  7. Julie Keeps Quiet
  8. Sorry, Baby
  9. Nouvelle Vague
  10. The Secret Agent
  11. One Battle After Another
  12. Jazzy

 

Val Tracy-Indrakaran’s Top Movies of 2025 (in no particular order)

the assessment
The Assessment
  • Bugonia
  • Julie Keeps Quiet
  • Universal Language
  • Mistress Dispeller
  • Die My Love
  • The Phoenecian Scheme
  • KPop Demon Hunters
  • The Testament of Ann Lee
  • The Assessment
  • Deaf President Now!
  • Resurrection
  • It was Just an Accident
  • Frankenstein
  • Dead Mail
  • Caught Stealing
  • Train Dreams
  • Hamnet
  • Wake Up Dead Man
  • 40 Acres
  • Cactus Pears
  • Mickey 17
  • Plainclothes
  • Move Ya Body: The Birth of House

 

The Plague
The Plague

Pater Waters Top Movies of 2025

  1. Weapons
  2. Companion
  3. The Plague
  4. Baby Doe
  5. Materialists
  6. Marty Supreme
  7. Bring Her Back
  8. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  9. Deaf President Now!
  10. Bugonia
  11.  Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
  12. Voice of Hind Rajab
  13. Grand Theft Hamlet