PV Guide’s 2025 Reader’s Choice Awards
Your picks for the best new releases of 2025.
Hello everyone! Thank you for filling out the PV Guide’s Reader Choice Awards ballot. I enjoyed seeing what you enjoyed this year.
If you missed our other BOTY coverage this week, check out Nicole Clark’s list of her favorite new books of 2025, and my brother Matt’s list of his favorite new albums of 2025. (Quick note for e-mail subscribers: that one looked a little weird in the e-mail inboxes for some reason, but looks as intended on web and mobile browsers). Next week, I’ll be publishing my favorite movies, TV, and games of the year.
Everyone got to vote for three titles in each category, and I assigned point values accordingly. I’ve tabulated the votes, and here are your picks for this year’s PV Guide Reader’s Choice Awards:
Best movie: Sinners
Others getting votes: One Battle After Another, It Was Just an Accident, 28 Years Later, Zero, Black Bag, Superman, Deathstalker, The Secret Agent, Weapons, Dust Bunny, Wake Up Dead Man, Thunderbolts*, and No Other Choice
Best TV show: Pluribus
Others getting votes: Andor, The Pitt, Severance, Adolescence, The Mighty Nein, Taskmaster Series 20, The Amazing Digital Circus, Dope Thief, Baby Assassins Everyday, Witch Watch, Blippo+, Physical: Asia, Poker Face, When Life Gives You Tangerines, Last Samurai Standing, Slow Horses
Your comments:
Petrana: Fighting for my life for Witch Watch to get more recognition -- every article i've seen complains that it's not a big action packed adventure but its a SLICE OF LIFE THAT JUST HAPPENS TO HAVE MAGIC IN IT ITS CLOSER TO KOMI CANT COMMUNICATE THAN JJK AHHHHH (that is all (im fine))
Zak: I wish for more praise of The Pitt coming back on an actual yearly cycle, being produced at a lower budget with more episodes.
Best new album: Tied
Top vote getters: Florence + the Machine – Everybody Scream, Car Seat Headrest — The Scholars, Nine Inch Nails – Tron Ares OST
Others getting votes: Lady Gaga – MAYHEM, Jacob Collier – The Light for Days, Wolf Alice – The Clearing, Lilly Allen – West End Girl, Little Simz – Lotus, Marcelo Zarvos + various – KPop Demon Hunters OST
Pete: Read Matt’s list of his favorite albums of 2025!
Best new game: Clair Obscur Expedition 33
Others getting votes: Blue Prince, Hades II, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dispatch, Strange Antiquities, Ball X Pit, Citizen Sleeper 2, Ghost of Yotei, Silent Hill F, Silksong
Your comments:
Johnny: Blue Prince is the Everlasting Gobstopper from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It's a relatively cheap game (in this games economy) that has layers and layers of sweet mysteries for you to solve. Each riddle you complete reveals a new flavor, but you'll soon realize that there is almost an infinite amount of tastes in this world. Unlike the Everlasting Gobstobber, the Blue Prince jawbreaker unfortunately does have an ending. However, you'll soon realize that you've just made it to the factory's gates.
Zak: Best Game Publisher Doing Weird Things I Admire: Panic
Matt: Honorable gaming mention: The Alters
Best new book: Tied
Top vote getters: The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater, The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Others getting votes: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, What We Can Know by Ian McEwan, The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen, Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett, When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, Never Flinch by Stephen King, Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Pete: Read Nicole Clark’s list of her favorite books of 2025!
What else you were up to:
Noah: Takopi's Original Sin
Matt: Best food trend: cardamom in everything.
Worst food trend: Dubai chocolate.
Petrana: i watched all of frasier and all the marvel movies and tv shows featuring bucky barnes and then started a new bg3 run that im actually sticking with i think that's all you need to know about my mental health state
Got more favorites from this year? Leave a comment, or reply to this e-mail!
