Best Movies of 2025
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
One Battle After AnotherAnderson's funniest and most propulsive film, a paranoid chase picture with a burnt out revolutionary at the center of it.Read the review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out MysteryThe most serious Blanc film and the best puzzle since the first, though its crowded pews leave half the suspects with a trait instead of a character.
A House of DynamiteKathryn Bigelow replays the same twenty minutes three times as a missile falls toward Chicago; each pass is tense, and each reveals less than the last.
Frankenstein (2025)Del Toro's lifelong dream project is ravishing to look at and comes fully alive only when Jacob Elordi's Creature takes over the telling.
I SwearRobert Aramayo's BAFTA-winning John Davidson lifts a conventional British biopic, playing the tics as a life rather than a stunt.
Superman (2025)The first Superman film in decades that likes Superman, a relief from the opening frame even as it crams in far too much.
KPop Demon HuntersAn animated musical whose songs do the plotting, staged with far more invention than its familiar secret-identity story needs.
Song Sung BlueTwo performances good enough to survive a script that keeps explaining itself, and Hudson's is the one that lasts.
AnemoneThe light and the performances are worth the ticket; the script guards a secret for two hours that was never worth the wait.
Avatar: Fire and AshA third helping of unmatched spectacle, and the first Avatar with a Na'vi villain worth arguing about.