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2025 English-language films

Wicked: For GoodNine million colorful tulips were planted on location to surround the Munchkinland set of Wicked: For Good. This 2025 American musical fantasy film, directed by Jon M. Chu, picks up the story of Elphaba and Glinda where its predecessor…
Mission: Impossible – The Final ReckoningAt the New York premiere of Mission: Impossible , The Final Reckoning in May 2025, Tom Cruise left no room for doubt about the title. "It's the final! It's not called 'final' for nothing," he said, confirming that this would be his last…
Avatar: Fire and AshAvatar: Fire and Ash is the third film in James Cameron's Avatar series. In December 2022, word spread that its first cut ran nine hours. Cameron later clarified the figure. The nine hours covered three films of about three hours each:…
Predator: BadlandsPredator: Badlands, a 2025 science fiction action film directed by Dan Trachtenberg, asks its audience to follow a Predator rather than flee from one. In a departure from earlier films, the hunter is the hero here and not the threat. His…
Superman (2025 film)Superman, the 2025 film written and directed by James Gunn, has a private detail hidden in its release calendar. The date was chosen because it matches the birthday of Gunn's late father. That personal thread runs through a project that…
The Fantastic Four: First StepsThe Fantastic Four: First Steps opens in 1964 on a world called Earth-828. Crowds are marking four years since a space mission gave four astronauts extraordinary powers. Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm are celebrities…
One Battle After AnotherOne Battle After Another, written, directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, sent about 1.5 million feet of film through its cameras. Those were VistaVision cameras, and cinematographer Michael Bauman said the system had not seen that…
Frankenstein (2025 film)Frankenstein, the 2025 film directed by Guillermo del Toro, began as an act of avoidance. In 2016 del Toro confessed that part of him had for more than 25 years "chickened out of making it." He felt that finishing the film would end the…
Jurassic World RebirthJurassic World Rebirth begins in 2008 on Île Saint-Hubert, a research island in the Atlantic Ocean. There, the company InGen keeps mutated dinosaurs that its own head considers disturbing. One of them, a six-limbed Tyrannosaurus called…
Thunderbolts*Before Thunderbolts* reached theaters in 2025, its title carried a small asterisk that Marvel Studios refused to explain. Studio president Kevin Feige confirmed in April 2024 that the mark was official. He promised the meaning would be…
Tron: AresTron: Ares is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Joachim Rønning, and it is built around a countdown of 29 minutes. That is the longest a digital construct can survive in the real world before it disappears. A hidden…
Bugonia (film)Bugonia, a 2025 black comedy thriller directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, begins with an abduction. Two young men seize a powerful chief executive and lock her away. They are certain she is an alien in disguise, and that she intends to destroy…
28 Years Later28 Years Later, the 2025 film from director Danny Boyle, sends a twelve-year-old boy named Spike into a Britain that the rest of the world has sealed off. The country has been under indefinite quarantine for nearly three decades, since the…
Sinners (2025 film)Sinners is a 2025 horror film from the writer, director and producer Ryan Coogler. It opens with someone describing a kind of music 'so pure it can pierce the veil between life and death, past and future.' The film then spends the rest of…
Zootopia 2Zootopia 2, the 2025 animated sequel from Walt Disney Animation Studios, once contained a four-minute scene lifted word for word from The Silence of the Lambs. The scene recreated a famous prison encounter from that thriller. It was cut…
F1 (film)F1, marketed as F1 the Movie, is a 2025 American sports drama directed by Joseph Kosinski. Brad Pitt plays a Formula One driver who returns after a 30-year absence to rescue his former teammate's underdog team from collapse. Damson Idris,…
KPop Demon HuntersBy the 24th of December 2025, KPop Demon Hunters had passed 500 million views on Netflix, a total no other original title on the service had reached. It is an animated musical made by Sony Pictures Animation. Its heroes are Huntrix, a girl…
A Minecraft MovieA Minecraft Movie arrived in theaters in 2025, and at one screening at Provo Towne Centre in Provo, Utah, audience members hoisted a live chicken into the air. They were promptly ejected from the theater, and videos of the moment spread…
Weapons (2025 film)Weapons is a 2025 American supernatural mystery horror film written and directed by Zach Cregger. Its story begins at 2:17 in the morning on a Wednesday in Maybrook, Pennsylvania. Seventeen children walk out of their front doors and vanish…
Marty SupremeMarty Supreme is a 2025 American sports comedy-drama directed by Josh Safdie, and its title is a brand name that exists only inside its own story. In 1952, a young New York table tennis player named Marty Mauser pitches bright orange…