The 50 Best 2025 Films You Might Have Missed

With an awards season and year-end lists that tend to favor films that have been released in the last few months, many things can go overlooked. For our yearly feature highlighting the 50 best titles you might have missed––arriving before our overall top 50––we’ve sought to dig deep to find the gems that deserved more attention upon their initial release and have mostly been left out of year-end conversations. Hopefully, with many widely available on a variety of streaming platforms, they will begin finding an expanded audience.