Grain of Salt: Matt's Top 10 Films of 2025

Up until a couple of months ago, I wasn’t certain that I was going to complete a full post like this, as my willingness and capacity to do so has traditionally been commensurate not JUST with how much time I have available during the last week of the year (though that is always a factor) but also with my passion for the year’s films. After all, the top film on this list has occupied that spot and hasn’t budged since I first saw it in April. That being said, the Quicktime catch ups and late inning screenings that I have been occupying myself with since October (number two on this list moved up a spot after each of my three screenings of it in the last week!) necessitated that I commit to making a proper list, as 2025 turned out to be (sneakily?) kind of a banner year. The 25th year of the 21st Century started with Hollywood literally burning and ended with it figuratively burning. But I guess that makes Ryan Coogler, James Cameron, Jafar Panahi, Chloe Zhao, and Josh Safdie the unelected Neros that we need right now. They’re not going down without a fiddle.

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Grain of Salt: Matt's Top 10 Films of 2025 is an episode from We Like Movies Podcast by Oscar Dahl & Matt Knudsen.

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This episode was published on Dec 31, 2025.

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