what is Cahiers du Cinéma top 10 list

The French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma has released its 2025 Top 10, led by Albert Serra’s controversial Tardes de soledad. Beyond auteur worship, the list reveals cinema’s resistance to algorithmic culture and commitment to difficulty as philosophical stance. From Paul Thomas Anderson to Nadav Lapid, these selections argue cinema is art, not content—and that matters.