Cinema Beyond Cinemas: the Best Films of 2025

Resurrection
Director: Bi Gan

Nouvelle Vague
Director: Richard Linklater

The Voice of Hind Rajab
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania

Sirāt
Director: Óliver Laxe

Sinners
Director: Ryan Coogler

The Shrouds
Director: David Cronenberg

The Secret Agent
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho

One Battle After Another
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

A House of Dynamite
Director: Katherine Bigelow

Souleymane’s Story
Director: Boris Lojkine

It Was Just an Accident
Director: Jafar Panahi

28 Years Later
Director: Danny Boyle

If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You
Director: Mary Bronstein

From Ground Zero: Stories From Gaza
Director: Rashid Masharawi

Co-existence, My Ass
Director: Amber Fares

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Director: Khalil Joseph

Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
Directors: Molly Bernstein and Philip Dolin

Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with Alexander Cockburn). He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net or on Twitter @JeffreyStClair3