2025 Film Rankings and Discussions

[Darth Marcus]

2025 is upon us.

In a few short weeks it will be a brand new year, and there will be 365 days of new movies to watch.



Just as in previous threads, this thread will be dedicated to the rankings and discussions of films released in 2025.

In the meantime, here's The Playlist's 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025

[Mandalorian]

4
Bring Them Down

3.5
Companion

3
Den of Thieves: Pantera
Heart Eyes

2.5
Wolf Man

2
Back in Action

[Mandalorian]

listed in release order under each rating

4
Bring Them Down
Black Bag

3.5
Companion
Mickey 17

3
Den of Thieves: Pantera
Heart Eyes
The Gorge
Captain America: Brave New World
The Monkey

2.5
Wolf Man

2
Back in Action

1
The Electric State

.5
Kinda Pregnant

[Cremildo]

red = new


Black Bag
Havoc
Flight Risk
The Monkey
Mickey 17
The Electric State
Captain America: Brave New World
A Working Man
The Rule of Jenny Pen


Dead Mail
The Gorge
Magazine Dreams
Presence
Companion
Wolf Man
The Damned

[Mandalorian]

listed in order I viewed them in under each rating not ranked

4.5
Sinners

4
Bring Them Down
Black Bag

3.5
Companion
Mickey 17
Paddington in Peru
Thunderbolts*

3
Den of Thieves: Pantera
Heart Eyes
The Gorge
Captain America: Brave New World
The Monkey
You’re Cordially Invited
Havoc

2.5
Wolf Man

2
Back in Action

1
The Electric State

.5
Kinda Pregnant

[MathTeacher]

5/5


4.5/5
Queen of the Ring
The Bad Guys 2
F1
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Sinners
The Naked Gun
Companion
Black Bag
Materialists
Novocaine
Dangerous Animals
Karate Kid: Legends
Friendship


4/5
Weapons
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Thunderbolts
Death of a Unicorn
Heart Eyes
Wolf Man
The Accountant 2
The Last Showgirl
Ballerina
Megan 2.0
Americana

3.5/5
Clown in a Cornfield
One of Them Days
Superman
One of Them Days
A Working Man
Bring Her Back
Mickey 17
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
A Minecraft Movie
How to Train Your Dragon
Last Breath
Fight or Flight
The Amateur
Drop
Captain America: Brave New World
Presence
Strange Harvest
Lilo & Stitch


3/5
Jurassic World Rebirth
Until Dawn
Locked
Happy Gilmore 2
Elio
Warfare
The Monkey
In the Lost Lands
Flight Risk


2.5/5
Hell of a Summer
Den of Thieves 2
Dog Man


2/5
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Woman in the Yard
Love Hurts


1.5/5
Snow White


1/5


.5/5

[ophone]

Films I've seen which were released in my country in 2025:

1) Memoir of a Snail (2024: Adam Elliot) 10/10
2) No Other Land (2024: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal) 10/10
3) Straume [Flow] (2024: Gints Zilbalodis) 9/10
4) On ira [We Will Go] (2025: Enya Baroux) 9/10
5) Mickey 17 (2025: Bong Joon Ho) 9/10
6) Ainda Estou Aqui [I'm Still Here] (2024: Walter Salles) 9/10
7) Un ours dans le Jura [How to Make a Killing] (2024: Franck Dubosc) 9/10
8) Black Bag (2025: Steven Soderbergh) 8/10
9) Sing Sing (2023: Greg Kwedar) 8/10
10) The Brutalist (2024: Brady Corbet) 8/10
11) My Favourite Cake (2024: Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha) 7/10
12) A Real Pain (2024: Jesse Eisenberg) 7/10
13) Poison (2024: Désirée Nosbusch)
14) Riefenstahl (2024: Andres Veiel) 7/10
15) Maria (2024: Pablo Larraín) 7/10

[acroyear2]

Originally Posted by ophone

Is it ok to list movies which were released in my country in 2025 or does their official release year count?

I'd say "you do you" as there are no "official" thread rules, except perhaps as long the movie in question is screened/released new in 2025 somewhere.

I know some people rank movies they saw at festivals a whole year before the general public does.

[Ishara]

5

• Flow (2024) (Released in 2025 in Belgium)

4.5

4

3.5

3

2.5

2

• Wolf Man (2025)

1.5

1

0.5

[ophone]

I've changed my mind, I'll only list true 2025 releases from now on:
(Latest entry red)
10/10
25/07/2025: 1) L'accident de piano [The Piano Accident] (Quentin Dupieux)
13/08/2025: 2) Sorda [Deaf] (Eva Libertad)
30/03/2025: 3) Terre Rouge - Topographie du poète (Fränz Hausemer)
9/10
21/03/2025: 4) On ira [We Will Go] (Enya Baroux)
17/05/2025: 5) Companion (Drew Hancock)
24/08/2025: 6) Affeksjonsverdi [Sentimental Value] (Joachim Trier)
07/09/2025: 7) Le assaggiatrici [The Tasters] (Silvio Soldini)
04/08/2025: 8) Dracula (Luc Besson)
22/07/2025: 9) Novocaine (Dan Berk & Robert Olsen)
22/03/2025: 10) Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
06/03/2025: 11) Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho)
8/10
17/03/2025: 12) Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
03/06/2025: 13) Partir un jour [Leave One Day] (Amélie Bonnin)
23/06/2025: 14) La venue de l'avenir [Colours of Time] (Cédric Klapisch)
11/05/2025: 15) Les musiciens [The Musicians] (Grégory Magne)
15/07/2025: 16) Reflet dans un diamant mort [Reflection in a Dead Diamond] (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
17/05/2025: 17) Final Destination: Bloodlines (Zach Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein)
16/04/2025: 18) Natacha (presque hôtesse de l'air) [Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess] (Noémie Saglio)
28/06/2025: 19) F1: The Movie (Joseph Kosinski)
29/04/2025: 20) Aimons-nous vivants [It Takes Two to Tango] (Jean-Pierre Améris)
7/10
29/08/2025: 21) Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky)
04/09/2025: 22) The Amateur (James Hawes)
28/07/2025: 23) Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)
27/08/2025: 24) The Roses (Jay Roach)
25/06/2025: 25) Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes [Little Amélie or the Character of Rain] (Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang)
21/04/2025: 26) Locked (David Yarovesky)
17/08/2025: 27) Weapons (Zach Cregger)
6/10
20/07/2025: 28) Eddington (Ari Aster)
30/07/2025: 29) The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer)
05/04/2025: 30) Le routard [The Rookie Guide] (Philippe Mechelen)
5/10
01/05/2025: 31) L'amour c'est surcoté [Love Is Overrated] (Mourad Winter)
4/10
26/03/2025: 32) A Working Man (David Ayer)

[sanriel]

4.5/5

Nosferatu

[acroyear2]

Movies collected under each ranking in order seen. New titles in bold.

4/5
The Last Showgirl
Better Man

3.5/5
Grand Theft Hamlet

[acroyear2]

Movies collected under each ranking in order seen. New titles in bold.

4/5
Companion
The Seed of The Sacred Fig*
The Last Showgirl
Better Man

3.5/5
Heart Eyes
Grand Theft Hamlet


*Limited release in Dec 2024. Didn't open wide release until 2025, so I am counting it for this year

[acroyear2]

Movies collected under each ranking in order seen. New titles in bold.

4/5
Night of the Zoopocalypse
Paddington In Peru
Companion
The Seed of The Sacred Fig*
The Last Showgirl
Better Man

3.5/5
Mikey 17
Heart Eyes
Grand Theft Hamlet

3
Captain America: Brave New World


*Limited release in Dec 2024. Didn't open wide release until 2025, so I am counting it for this year

[acroyear2]

Movies collected under each ranking in order seen. New titles in bold.

4.5/5
Black Bag

4/5
Night of the Zoopocalypse
Paddington In Peru
Companion
The Seed of The Sacred Fig*
The Last Showgirl
Better Man

3.5/5
Magazine Dreams
Ash
Mikey 17
Heart Eyes
Grand Theft Hamlet

3
Captain America: Brave New World


*Limited release in Dec 2024. Didn't open wide release until 2025, so I am counting it for this year

[acroyear2]

Movies collected under each ranking in order seen. New titles in bold.

4.5/5
Black Bag

4/5
Night of the Zoopocalypse
Paddington In Peru
Companion
The Last Showgirl
Better Man

3.5/5
The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Magazine Dreams
The Seed of The Sacred Fig*
Heart Eyes
Grand Theft Hamlet

3/5
Ash
Mikey 17

2.5/5
Captain America: Brave New World

2/5
Death of a Unicorn

1.5/5

1/5


*Limited release in Dec 2024. Didn't open wide release until 2025, so I am counting it for this year

[benbess]

Reserved

[dommie]

2025 Films

New in Bold Red

Note: Films are listed under each ranking in the order they were seen, most recent at the bottom of that ranking.

5/5

4.5/5

4/5

3.5/5

3/5

2.5/5
Flight Risk

2/5

1.5/5

1/5

.5/5

Bomb

[Zivouhr]

2025 Theatrical Movies in theaters:

The Wolf Man: 4/5 A family man loses himself to a wolf-like morphing disease, putting his family at great risk for his poor judgment. Tense energy in 2nd half for horror.

Sonic 3: (2024 movie seen in theaters on Feb 1st 2025) 3/5 Much improved sequel and stayed on track with the story. Carrey's Laser Dance scene was entertaining. 2nd best in the series.

Captain America Brave New World 3D: 4/5 Action was good but wanted more of it. The story was interesting about hypnotizing people to do the villain's bidding, but could use trimming and more dire stakes. Sam Wilson as Captain was good.

The Monkey: 3/5 Final Destination type deaths which can be clever and a creepy monkey. Clear theme that death can be random, much like the random and mostly meaningless to the story deaths that occur throughout the thin story film of two conflicting brother twins with a cursed tinker Monkey drummer.

The Rule of Jenny Penn: 4/5 A slow paced horror film about a disabled Judged Senior entering the prison of an Elderly Nursing home, where an evil bully and his possessive Puppet await to haunt him and the residents each night.

The Day the Earth Blew Up Daffy/Porky/Petunia: 4/5 Looney Tunes meets Ren & Stimpy exaggeration with plenty of smiles, lots of gags and humor over the story of an alien trying to possess every human to chew zombifying bubble gum.

Snow White & Seven Dwarfs Live-Action: 3/5 2D Only, it expands the story considerably while changing some minor details, but is generally entertaining with some flaws and not a total trainwreck as many hoped. I would not have gone to see it if not invited with a free ticket, so my expectations were low. The original I still like better.

A Minecraft Movie 3D: 4/5 Minecraft never takes itself seriously and has fun with the very lite quest story. Minecraft is Napoleon Dynamite + Warcraft Movie + Lord of the Rings + Minecraft mixed into one movie. Entertaining and fast paced.
Jared Hess' style is on full display here as director.

Thunderbolts 3D: 4/5 Entertaining story with very good action of the team trying to help a self-destructive super hero villain not become corrupt. Medium 3D layers.

Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning: 4/5 The stakes were high if Ethan Hunt failed here, against the AI computer mind that had every other character explaining its next move instead of just creating an AI character to show instead of tell. The action, fights, stunts, submarine timed mission and airplane chase were epic and fun.

Ballerina: John Wick Story: 4/5 Intense action beautifully choreographed and shot, with lots of variety and while the story was an expected revenge one, the stakes were set for her to succeed or die. Really great action and John Wick has a good 15 minutes of action and screen time.

28 Years Later: 2/5 Great scenery in the story of a foolish, unskilled kid bringing his ill mother into the Hell of Rager land to find a demented bone collecting Doctor he hopes can help her... I was not able to root for this kid fool of a character despite his good intentions. He had no skills of survival, other than bargaining with friendly humans.

F1: 4/5 Fulfills an F1 fan's hope of lots of racing action in F1 cars for much of the film and stays focused on racing. Almost like a remake of Driven, but here Pitt is intentionally causing crashes to give his teammate the edge, but still entertaining.

Jurassic World 4 Rebirth 3D: 4/5 While the story has issues, there are some new and fun monsters and this feels like a fast paced sequel to the fun Kong: Skull Island. Medium 3D layers.

Superman 25 3D: 5/5 Story about Superman getting beaten up badly by not only Ultraman but also his loyal fans when he's set up by Lex. Great action, good casting and an entertaining film where Superman not only saves people, but animals like a squirrel too.

Fantastic Four 3D: 4/5 Good, simple and direct story about Sue on the verge of having a baby while the family battles the impending giant planet eater Galactus and the woman Surfer. The 3D was a great conversion with medium to strong 3D layers. A good movie even with some questions about the military and citizens left a mystery.

Naked Gun 2025: 3/5 Generally funny and a good movie, starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. matched alongside Pam Anderson. The jokes provoked chuckles, though nothing hilarious like the Leslie Nielsen originals for me with the baseball, government dinner or Academy Awards scenes. A good start though and most fans enjoyed it so far.

Weapons: 4/5 It really takes its time to get to the horror, and with each character, leaves new clues as to what is going on. A mysterious villain with plenty of personality to give the film more depth, and some really creepy moments and intensity. A cleverly told story with the different perspectives adding up.

Toxic Avenger 2025: 3/5 A slick, modern cinematic reboot of the classic Troma underdog character. Dinklage does a good job, but lacks some of the charm and humor of the original and cartoon versions. Some decent action moments and gory effects (some clearly CGI). Kevin Bacon and Eli Wood as the villains. Worth a watch to see but can't top the 1st and 2nd films.




(And a bunch more that I hope to see throughout 2025 in theaters to be determined.)

[nightwolf2369]

Reserved

Sinners - 9/10
The Fantastic Four: First Steps - 9/10
Weapons - 8.5/10
Thunderbolts* - 8/10
Jurassic World: Rebirth - 8/10
Superman - 7.5/10
Freaky Tales - 7.5/10
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning - 7.5/10
The Materialists - 7/10
The Gorge - 7/10
Locked - 7/10
Captain America: Brave New World - 6.5/10
Happy Gilmore 2 - 6.5/10
Mickey 17 - 5/10