Rolling Stone magazine has dropped its authoritative lists of the 100 Best Songs of 2025 and the 20 Best Movies of 2025, providing crucial validation to artists and filmmakers across the globe and setting the definitive landscape for the upcoming awards season. The selections highlight a year dominated by maximalist pop, genre-bending music, and ambitious auteur-driven cinema.
Top 10 Songs of 2025
- Abracadabra – Lady Gaga
- Dancing in the Club – MJ Lenderman and This Is Lorelei
- Golden – KPop Demon Hunters/Huntr/x
- Baile Inolvidable – Bad Bunny
- Folded – Kehlani
- Manchild – Sabrina Carpenter
- Shot Callin – YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- The Fate of Ophelia – Taylor Swift
- luther – Kendrick Lamar and SZA
- The Subway – Chappell Roan
20 Best Films of 2025
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 list—assembled by critic David Fear—is a celebration of high-caliber, ambitious cinema, mixing long-awaited projects from veterans with daring international features.
- One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson): The political thriller and box office hit, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, claimed the top spot, solidifying its status as a consensus Best Picture contender and cementing Anderson’s return to large-scale narrative filmmaking.
- Hamnet
- Black Bag
- Train Dreams
- Nouvelle Vague
- It Was Just an Accident
- No Other Choice
- Sorry, Baby
- Marty Supreme
- Sentimental Value
- Peter Hujar’s Day
- Eddington
- Universal Language
- Best Wishes for All
- Orwell: 2+2=5
- On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
- The Phoenician Scheme
- Caught by the Tides
- Frankestein
- Weapons