Sure, 2025 had plenty of incredible movies, but what about a best-of list filled with the films that actually kept Us talking — not just the ones making the most awards season noise?

Don’t get Us wrong: Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle After Another and the rest of the other Oscar-buzz crowd absolutely deserve their moment, but sometimes a movie connects with audiences in a way critics and the Academy don’t fully clock. Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner nearly single-handedly brought back the theatrical rom-com with their emotional afterlife love triangle in Eternity, while Dylan O’Brien’s Twinless emerged as one of the year’s most gut-punching portraits of grief and resilience.

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