To be honest, this was a hard one… 2025 was just not a great year at the movies! Critics and audiences alike were left disappointed last year, movies throughout the year lacked originality, and franchises from Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 flop, to a very disappointing Marvel outing for Captain America and lets just try and forget the nearly three hours of our lives we wasted watching the final instalment of Mission Impossible!
So here it is… The best movies of 2025…
MEGAN 2.0
Two years after M3GAN’s rampage, her creator, Gemma, resorts to resurrecting her infamous creation in order to take down Amelia, the military-grade weapon who was built by a defence contractor who stole M3GAN’s underlying tech.
The Naked Gun
When it comes to laughs-to-the-pound, no-one is beating Akiva Schaffer’s miraculous and hilarious refit of the Zucker brothers classic TV and film serial, The Naked Gun. Liam Neeson is perfectly cast as hard-boiled Police Squad detective, Frank Drebin Jr, while an on-message Pamela Anderson turns up as his femme fatale lover. The problem with this film is deciding which gag or scene is the funniest – maybe the moment where Drebin first encounters Danny Huston’s moustache-twirling bad guy, and they discover their mutual love of the Black Eyed Peas.
A Minecraft Movie
Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in Warner Bros. and Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie, based on the popular Minecraft video game. The movie was released in April and surpassed expectations to amass almost $1billion globally. Given the film’s success, it’s no surprise that a sequel is in the works, set for release on July 23, 2027.
Cover-Up
Legends don’t usually come as charismatic and principled as Seymour “Sy” Hersh, a legendary American investigative journalist who decides – under some duress – to become the subject of the new film by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. This urgent doc meticulously chronicles Hersh’s major scoops, including the uncovering of the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam war and becoming a major headache for Richard Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. It is about the need for journalists like Hersh to make sure the truth about atrocities around the globe are not buried by the powerbrokers.
The Amateur
When his supervisors at the CIA refuse to take action after his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a decoder takes matters into his own hands.
The Monkey
When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.
Frankenstein
When you’ve climbed Everest, what is there left in the world to conquer? It’s a question that writer/director Guillermo del Toro is likely pondering now, as 2025 was the year that he got to make his long-cherished opus, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’. His fluid, pictorial image making is, as ever, best-in-class, and this time around he was also gifted with a pair of stunning performances in his two leads, Oscar Issac and Jacob Elordi.
Fantastic Four: First Steps
Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic herald, the Silver Surfer.
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