2025 is shaping as much as be a cinematic feast, with silver-screen gems able to dazzle audiences. From pulse-pounding blockbusters to thought-provoking indie movies, this 12 months’s releases promise one thing for each film lover.
Whether or not you’re itching for high-octane motion, heartwarming dramas or laugh-out-loud comedies, the lineup is filled with unforgettable tales and star-studded casts.
Right here’s your information to the very best new movies of 2025.
A Full Unknown
17 January
The 12 months in movie begins and ends with a Chalamet biopic, with Timothee kicking issues off as Bob Dylan in A Full Unknown. Bob’s apparently given it the massive thumbs up, praising Chalamet, the movie and the e book it’s based mostly on, Elijah Wald’s ‘Dylan Goes Electrical’.
Edward Norton and Elle Fanning additionally star within the sixties-set movie placing Chalamet firmly in Academy Awards competition.
The Brutalist
24 January
Additionally within the operating, presumably, will probably be Adrien Brody within the prolonged post-war structure epic, The Brutalist. Regardless of its huge three-and-a-half-hour run time, preliminary evaluations have been extraordinarily constructive.
Brody performs a holocaust surviving architect who strikes to the US to start a distinguished profession underneath Man Pearce’s wealthy man tutelage.
The Phoenician Scheme
TBD
The 12 months’s slice of Andersonian caper is predicted to return within the type of The Phoenician Scheme, a father-and-daughter espionage comedy drama co-written with Roman Coppola.
Particulars are muted however as is custom, count on an ensemble forged of acquainted names, with a couple of newbies for good measure.
The Monkey
21 February
Final 12 months’s horror of the 12 months contender Longlegs – the highest-grossing indie of 2024, in addition to studio Neon’s highest-grossing ever – means incoming Oz Perkins joint The Monkey will arrive this 12 months with severe hype.
Primarily based on a Stephen King story, the movie sees a toy monkey wreaking ugly havoc.
Mickey 17
April 18
Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up on 2019’s Parasite has taken some time. Loads of rumours are circulating as to why, however hopefully, come April, we’ll be capable to dig into some oddball Pattinson house satire.
Bong described the movie to Empire journal: “In the end, the story is about how pathetic people could be.” We’re right here for it.
Warfare
TBD
Alex Garland is doing warfare for A24 once more after final 12 months’s dystopian Civil Struggle, they usually’re saying it will likely be the studio’s costliest one but. Set throughout the newest Iraq warfare, the movie follows US troopers embedded with an Iraqi household.
Like many warfare movies that turn into actor launchpads, Warfare will characteristic a rising star-studded forged together with Cosmo Jarvis, Equipment Connor, Finn Bennett, Michael Gandolfini, Joseph Quinn and comparable old-timer Will Poulter.
Golden
Might 15
Not content material with watching Pharrell’s life instructed by means of the medium of Lego? How a few dramatised real-life ode to the place the place he grew up, visualised by music video extraordinaire Michel Gondry? Sounds good.
Following the animated biopic Piece by Piece, Golden will probably be a coming-of-age comedy-drama musical depicting the magical Virginia neighbourhood wherein Pharrell Williams grew up.
28 Years Later
June 20
Danny Boyle (directing) and Alex Garland (writing) have joined forces once more for the sake of zombie movies with a 3rd instalment of the 28 franchise. The movie continues the place the earlier left off with a gaggle of survivors dwelling in a fortified island compound amid an excessive quarantine. What might probably go incorrect?
Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes and Aaron Taylor-Johnson star.
F1
27 June
Described by Little White Lies as a ‘blockbuster brainiac’ (kudos), Prime Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski returns in 2025 with a Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem-helmed racing drama. I imply, sure, we’re offered, signal us up and soften our mind.
Pitt’s aged F1 driver comes out of retirement to mentor a younger driver, presumably Mr Miyagi type, and nicely, yeah. Prime Gun: Maverick however with automobiles. Say no extra.
Superman: Legacy
11 July
We’ve quietly protested in opposition to superhero movies on this checklist because of the now fatiguing ranges of relentless tedium (sorry, Thunderbolts, Implausible 4 and new Captain America). Nonetheless, regardless of the massive strain and jeopardy, we’d fairly like the brand new Superman to work.
James Gunn is the newest ringer within the DC sizzling seat tasked with making one thing good. David Corenswet is the person of metal, and Nicholas Hoult is Lex Luther. Let’s see the way it goes.
The Battle of Baktan Cross
August 8
Absolutely not Paul Thomas Anderson adapting Thomas Pynchon once more? Yep, he’s. When you didn’t like Inherent Vice, perhaps give this one a swerve. That mentioned, it’s PTA working with Leonardo DiCaprio, so it’s price holding that thought.
Rumoured to be based mostly on Pynchon’s Vineland, a postmodern novel based mostly round individuals in Regan’s 80s reminiscing about their free-wheeling ’60s youth, something hooked up to PTA is price trying out.
Bugonia
November 7
Absolutely some of the prolific filmmakers of current instances, to not point out one of many weirdest, Yorgos Lanthimos is but once more main with Emma Stone entrance and centre (Jesse Plemons additionally on board) on the finish of 2025, with a Korean horror comedy.
Bugonia is a remake of Save The Inexperienced Planet! based mostly round a person kidnapping one other man, satisfied he’s an alien despatched to destroy Earth. Studying up on the unique’s plot suggests one other suitably oddball journey to the cinema.
Marty Supreme
Late 2025 / early 2026
It’s a giant 12 months for the Safdie brothers, even when they’re not working collectively like they did for Uncut Gems. Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine will see Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson in a biopic of UFC fighter Mark Kerr, whereas Josh will around the 12 months off with Timothee Chalamet in Marty Supreme.
The latter is the one we’re most trying ahead to, with Chalamet enjoying the Fifties desk tennis professional Marty Reisman alongside an intriguing forged together with Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler, The Creator, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher.
