The 84 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 (and 5 We Already Love)

Two very cool stars (in Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy)? Check. A cool director (in Scott Derrickson, of Doctor Strange, Sinister, and The Black Phone fame)? Check. A cool premise? Check. The Gorge finds Miles and Anya as a pair of talented agents who need to protect a mysterious gorge before finding themselves teaming up to take on a common evil. Is that a basic, easy-to-follow premise? Yes. Has it been done before? Yeah, probably. Is it fun? Definitely.

The Monkey marks an absolute horror dream team: director Oz Perkins (who last year did Longlegs), producer James Wan (who has done about a million great things, including Insidious, Saw, and Malignant), and based on a story by Stephen King. The Monkey, which stars Theo James as a pair of troubled twins, is more of a dark horror comedy than Longlegs, but don’t be mistaken: you can expect a lot of scares and a lot of violence to go along with quite a lot of laughs as well.

Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Parasite is finally arriving in theaters, and its Mickey 17, the sci-fi dark comedy featuring Robert Pattinson as many, many, different doomed versions of a guy named Mickey. This looks more like Bong’s heightened worlds in Snowpiercer and Okja than the grounded mania of Parasite, but nonetheless it should still be a super fun movie filled with great performances (Pattinson is joined by Steven Yeun, Tilda Swinton, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo, among others) and lots of goofy violence. Fun fact: the movie is based on a novel called Mickey 7, but the title was changed because Bong wanted to kill Mickey 10 more times.

The Ayo Edebiri breakout continues with A24’s Opus, a horror film where she plays a journalist who gets invited to the home of a mysterious and reclusive pop star (John Malkovich) who turns out to have a twisted and disturbing cult surrounding him. Sounds wild!

The second Steven Soderbergh film of 2025 already is Black Bag, which finds the 62-year-old master director returning to a zone he thrives in: the sleek, cool, fun, thriller with an absolutely stacked cast. Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett play a pair of legendary intelligence agents who find themselves wondering if they can trust each other or the agencies they work for in the midst of some major international danger. The rest of the cast includes Pierce Brosnan, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Industry star Marisa Abela, and more.

The second Jack Quaid film of our list finds the young star as a guy with a condition where he can’t feel pain on an adventure to save the potential love of his life. Novocaine looks to be filled with bouncing, frenetic action and Quaid’s optimistic energy and strong charisma seem to make him a great fit.

Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson (Diner, The Natural, Rain Man) is back for his first movie on the big screen since 2015 with The Alto Knights, which features Robert De Niro as not one but two different warring mob bosses. Seems like it could be good but also might be a little silly. We’ll have to see!

Guys. It’s Jason Statham. You know what you’re going to get, and I hope he never stops. This one has David Harbour as a blind ally of our bald-headed hero as he takes out all sorts of bad guys; it also marks a reunion between Statham and The Beekeeper director David Ayer. A sure blast incoming.

Death of a Unicorn has a phenomenal cast—Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Richard E. Grant, and Tea Leoni, among others—to go along with an even more phenomenal premise. The film is a black comedy that follows a father and daughter (Rudd and Ortega) who are in a whole situation after the accidentally strike and kill a unicorn on the road… only to find that a rich industrialist family (Grant, Poulter, Leoni) want to experiment on the unicorn for evil (and money). Lots of madness ensues. Not only is this movie fun and stacked with talent, but it’s got an original score from horror/movie legend John Carpenter.

One of the most fun horror directors in the last decade or so is Christopher Landon, who was behind the Happy Death Day films and Freaky. Now, he’s back for Drop, an escape thriller that will star The White Lotus star Meghann Fahy and 1923‘s Brendan Sklenar.

Based on the novel by Robert Littell, The Amateur looks to have a simple enough premise: after a tech guy for the CIA (Rami Malek) sees his wife murdered, he decides to go rogue and take matters into his own hands. Think Law Abiding Citizen but with far more advanced technology.

It’s a camp-set horror/comedy/slasher that stars (and was co-directed by) Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard. Why not? He’s joined in the cast by his co-writer/co-director Billy Bryk and Gladiator 2 and Thelma star Fred Hechinger.

One of the year’s most exciting and intriguing blockbusters is Sinners, an original period-setting horror adventure film by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed, Fruitvale Station) that stars Michael B. Jordan as a pair of twins. We think vampires are involved? A little crazy that Ryan Coogler got to Vampires with Warner Bros. before his old friends at Marvel Studios did with Blade, but what are you going to do? This movie seems like it’s going to rule—MBJ is joined in the cast by Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo, and Jack O’Connell, among many others.

Ben Affleck is back for The Accountant 2. If you know you know, folks. The first movie made over $150 million at the box office, and is a lot of fun—so if you were into that one, here’s your treat.

Going to be real: I am very optimistic about Thunderbolts. While the team lineup is different from the Marvel Comics team of the same name (Seriously, where is Zemo!?!), we do still get a great crew that includes Sebastian Stan’s Bucky, Florence Pugh’s Yelena, David Harbour’s Red Guardian, and Wyatt Russell’s John Walker along with Lewis Pullman as Bob (who will eventually become Sentry) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Val. But the real exciting stuff comes from behind the camera, as the movie serves as a de facto reunion of the team from Netflix’s Beef: director Jake Schreier directed six of the show’s 10 episodes, while creator Lee Sung Jin is a credited screenwriter. Trust the process on this one!

Very little is known about A Big Bold Beautiful Journey outside of the fact that it’s some kind of romantic fantasy, comes from director Kogonada (After Yang), and has a stacked cast that includes Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie.

The Rube Goldberg Death Machine horror franchise is finally back! It should be hard to mess up a Final Destination movie: we just want to see increasingly-creative death scenes strung together by whatever passable plot the screenwriters can come up with. Is that so hard? We’re confident here.