Seattle Film Critics Society

Roundup: Seattle Critics Year-End Lists for 2025

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For a film critic, the year’s not over until you’ve agonized over which movies make your year-end list. Although SFCS has already announced our 2025 awards, as we turn the page to a new year we’re sharing a selection of top ten lists from some of our members.

Check out the links to read more of their thoughts about the year in film and follow this Letterboxd List of all the films that made someone’s list.

Eric Zhu: The Insert

  1. Afternoons of Solitude
  2. 7 Walks with Mark Brown
  3. The Shrouds
  4. Marty Supreme
  5. Reflection in a Dead Diamond
  6. Pepe
  7. The Secret Agent
  8. My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow
  9. DIRECT ACTION
  10. About Thirty

Chase Hutchinson: The Inlander / RogerEbert.com

  1. April
  2. The Mastermind
  3. Train Dreams
  4. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  5. Resurrection
  6. One Battle After Another
  7. Powwow People
  8. WTO/99
  9. Sorry, Baby
  10. The Chronology of Water

Justin Moore: Justin Watches Movies

  1. F1 ® The Movie
  2. Sinners
  3. Marty Supreme
  4. One Battle After Another
  5. Avatar: Fire and Ash
  6. The Naked Gun
  7. Fantastic Four First Steps
  8. The Life of Chuck
  9. Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
  10. Rental Family

Bob Foster: Cinema Crazed

  1. Frankenstein
  2. Train Dreams
  3. Sinners
  4. Hamnet
  5. Sorry, Baby
  6. Superman
  7. One Battle After Another
  8. Black Bag
  9. Bring Her Back
  10. Predator: Badlands

Linda Gwilym: Moviepie.com

  1. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  2. Hamnet
  3. Between Goodbyes
  4. Train Dreams
  5. Sinners
  6. Raptures
  7. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
  8. Marty Supreme
  9. One Battle After Another
  10. Song Sung Blue

David Chen: Decoding Everything

  1. It Was Just an Accident
  2. One Battle After Another
  3. Weapons
  4. Sinners
  5. Sentimental Value
  6. No Other Choice
  7. Black Bag
  8. Left-Handed Girl
  9. Bugonia
  10. Companion

Blake Peterson: 425

  1. It Was Just an Accident
  2. Sorry, Baby
  3. The Secret Agent
  4. One Battle After Another
  5. The Mastermind
  6. Reflection in a Dead Diamond
  7. Eddington
  8. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  9. Marty Supreme
  10. Peter Hujar’s Day

Marina Coates: The SunBreak

  1. Marty Supreme
  2. Sorry, Baby
  3. Companion
  4. Bugonia
  5. One Battle After Another
  6. The Phoenician Scheme
  7. Train Dreams
  8. The Testament of Ann Lee
  9. Sentimental Value
  10. Novocaine

Joe Hammerschmidt: Warm 106.9

  1. Mickey 17
  2. One Battle After Another
  3. Sinners
  4. Train Dreams
  5. Marty Supreme
  6. No Other Choice
  7. Familiar Touch
  8. Wake Up Dead Man
  9. The Life of Chuck
  10. Bugonia

Allen Almachar: The MacGuffin

  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Sinners
  3. Train Dreams
  4. Marty Supreme
  5. The Long Walk
  6. Bugonia
  7. Nouvelle Vague
  8. It Was Just an Accident
  9. Eephus
  10. Sentimental Value

Josh Bis: The SunBreak

  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Marty Supreme
  3. Sentimental Value
  4. The Testament of Ann Lee
  5. Hamnet
  6. Sorry, Baby
  7. Twinless
  8. Bugonia
  9. Wake Up Dead Man
  10. Sinners

Kathy Fennessy: And More Again

  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Sinners
  3. The Secret Agent
  4. Familiar Touch
  5. 40 Acres
  6. Sirāt
  7. Blue Sun Palace
  8. Blue Moon
  9. It Was Just an Accident
  10. The Mastermind

Matt Oakes: Silver Screen Riot

  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Sinners
  3. Weapons
  4. Marty Supreme
  5. Bugonia
  6. The Life of Chuck
  7. Together
  8. Hamnet
  9. Lurker
  10. No Other Choice

Morgen Schuler: The SunBreak

  1. One Battle After Another
  2. The Testament of Ann Lee
  3. Marty Supreme
  4. Sinners
  5. Harbin
  6. Elio
  7. Hamnet
  8. Twinless
  9. Wake Up Dead Man
  10. Boong

Vaughn Swearingen: Step Printed

  1. Resurrection
  2. One Battle After Another
  3. Transcending Dimensions
  4. Sinners
  5. Reflection in a Dead Diamond
  6. Marty Supreme
  7. Sentimental Value
  8. It Was Just An Accident
  9. The Mastermind
  10. Cloud

Sean Gilman: Letterboxd

  1. Rewrite
  2. Baby Assassins Everyday!
  3. CITY the Animation
  4. She Taught Me Serendipity
  5. Shifty
  6. Broken Rage
  7. Pavements
  8. Legends of the Condor Heroes: the Gallants
  9. Muromachi Outsiders
  10. Blue Fight

Joseph Curtis: YouTube

  1. Sinners
  2. One Battle After Another
  3. Frankenstein
  4. Marty Supreme
  5. Hamnet
  6. Superman
  7. 28 Years Later
  8. Train Dreams
  9. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
  10. Avatar: Fire and Ash

Sara Michelle Fetters: Seattle Gay News

  1. Sinners
  2. Sorry, Baby
  3. One Battle After Another
  4. Peter Hujar’s Day
  5. Train Dreams
  6. The Long Walk
  7. Sentimental Value
  8. Black Bag
  9. No Other Choice
  10. 28 Years Later

Timothy Hall: Thepeoplescriticblog

  1. Sinners
  2. Presence
  3. One Battle After Another
  4. Weapons
  5. Bring Her Back
  6. Black Bag
  7. The Long Walk
  8. Influencers
  9. Frankenstein
  10. KPop Demon Hunters

Brent McKnight: The Last Thing I See

  • Sinners
  • The Furious
  • Den of Thieves: Pantera
  • Freaky Tales
  • Ghost Killer
  • Baby Assassins: Nice Days
  • Final Destination: Bloodlines
  • WTO/99
  • Striking Rescue
  • Redux Redux

René Sánchez: Cine Sin Fronteras

  1. Sirāt
  2. It Was Just An Accident
  3. Sound of Falling
  4. A Poet
  5. Sentimental Value
  6. The President’s Cake
  7. Resurrection
  8. Hamnet
  9. Left-Handed Girl
  10. Pillion

Erik Samdahl: FilmJabber

  1. Weapons
  2. Marty Supreme
  3. Sinners
  4. One Battle After Another
  5. Hamnet
  6. The Life of Chuck
  7. Superman
  8. Good Fortune
  9. Final Destination: Bloodlines
  10. The Ballad of Wallis Island

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