Awards season may have wrapped a few months ago, but I can’t help but get excited about all the brilliant films we’ve got coming up for the rest of 2025. I’m a regular cinema-goer, and nothing makes me happier than queuing up to buy some salty popcorn and a large Diet Coke, and settling in to watch a brand-new film. In the past few months, I’ve been to watch Wicked at the cinema three times and I’m sure I’ll do exactly the same when the second part, Wicked: For Good, hits screens in late 2025.

Including devastating romances, moving biopics and blockbuster action, here are the 19 films I’m looking forward to watching (and rewatching) in 2025.

Thunderbolts*

It’s been a while since the Marvel universe delivered a huge ensemble film, and while Thunderbolts* is unlikely to hit the heady heights of the Avengers: Infinity War films, it has the potential to be very good. Starring Florence Pugh as Black Widow, Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier, David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov (aka the Red Guardian) and many more, Thunderbolts* sees an unconventional group of superheroes emerge in a world without the Avengers.

“As this new team bands together, they navigate complex missions and moral dilemmas, seeking to establish themselves as protectors while uncovering hidden threats that could jeopardise global safety and stability,” reads the synopsis.

Release date: 2 May 

Materialists

A lot of the plot details are still being kept under wraps, but we do know that Materialists will be a New York-set romantic comedy that follows a professional matchmaker called Lucy, who gets involved with a wealthy man but still harbours feelings for the broke actor-waiter she left behind.

If Celine Song’s Past Lives is anything to go by, we can probably expect another complicated and devastating love triangle at the centre of the story.

Release date: 13 June

Jurassic World: Rebirth

If Jonathan Bailey is on the cast list, I will be watching. A new chapter in the Jurassic World franchise, this new film is set five years after Jurassic World: Dominion and follows an expedition to isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough that could save humanity. Scarlett Johansson plays Zora Bennett, a CIA-type contractor; Mahershala Ali is her sibling-like captain, Duncan Kincaid; and Jonathan Bailey plays palaeontologist Dr Henry Loomis.

Release date: 2 July

Hot Milk

Set in the scorching heat of a Spanish summer, the film follows Rose (Fiona Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey) as they travel to the seaside town of Almería to consult Gómez (Vincent Perez), an enigmatic healer who may hold the key to Rose’s mysterious illness. But Sofia, trapped by her mother’s condition, begins to shed her inhibitions as she is drawn to the magnetic charms of a free-spirited traveller, Ingrid (Vicky Krieps).

Release date: 4 July

One Battle After Another

When their nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries must reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own. 

Leonardo DiCaprio plays former hippie Bob Ferguson, who has to negotiate with rebels about the whereabouts of his missing daughter (Chase Infiniti). The film is written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Liquorice Pizza) and also stars Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor.

Release date: 26 September

Mickey 17

Ever since Parasite hit our screens in 2019, I’ve been waiting patiently for director Bong Joon-ho’s next project. A dark sci-fi comedy, the film stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, who has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job: to die for a living.

We Live In Time

Directed by John Crowley, We Live In Time stars Florence Pugh as Almut, a witty, unstoppable chef, and Andrew Garfield as Tobias, a recent divorcé finding his way in the world, and a surprise encounter changes their lives. “Through snapshots of their life together – falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family – a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation,” the synopsis reads.

As I wrote in my review, it’s been a long time since I cried solidly through a film (and then had to nip to the bathroom afterwards to sort myself out), and I’m already excited to watch this film all over again.

Maria

Starring Angelina Jolie and exploring the life of the opera singer Maria Callas, this film focuses on the later part of her life and career when she retreated to Paris in the 1970s after a glamorous yet tumultuous life in the public eye. Directed by Pablo Larraín (known for Jackie and Spencer), the film reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life.

It’s cinematically gorgeous but it’s Jolie’s performance that really takes your breath away. She’s utterly brilliant to watch as Maria’s life unfolds on screen.

Babygirl

One of my favourites from the films I managed to see early, Babygirl brilliantly captures a woman’s erotic experiences without shying away from the jagged edges of these desires, and Nicole Kidman’s performance will surely be one of the main talking points of awards season.

Kidman plays a powerful CEO, Romy, who engages in a forbidden affair with an alluring and much younger intern, Samuel, played by Harris Dickinson. Romy seems to have it all. A glamorous job at a robotics firm. A handsome theatre director for a husband and two teenage daughters. A beautiful home in the New York suburbs. But she still feels as though something is missing from her life – in particular her sex life.

Hard Truths

Directed by Mike Leigh, sisters Pansy and Chantal are “chalk and cheese”, but their close bond is the foundation that their extended family is built upon. Recently, life has proven too much for Pansy, her depression manifesting in relentless criticism of the world, leaving her husband Curtley, son Moses and Chantal walking on eggshells around her. However, things come to a head over the course of a Mother’s Day weekend.

The Last Showgirl

A Pamela Anderson comeback? Sign us up. In Gia Coppola’s film, the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, so a glamorous showgirl, Shelly, must come to term with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.

Hamnet

Having already stormed the worlds of literature and theatre, Hamnet is getting the Hollywood treatment from award-winning director Chloé Zhao. The film stars Paul Mescal as a character based on a young William Shakespeare. Jessie Buckley plays his wife, Anne Hathaway (named Agnes in the book). Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, the story charts the beginning of Shakespeare’s relationship with his wife as well as their son Hamnet’s illness, his sudden death and the devastating impact it has on his parents.

Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man

Wake Up Dead Man will see Daniel Craig return to the twists and turns of Benoit Blanc in his trickiest case yet, but very little is known about the plot. We do know, however, that Josh O’Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington, Glenn Close, Jeremy Renner and Mila Kunis will star.

After The Hunt

After the success of Challengers, director Luca Guadagnino is back with another big drama.

After The Hunt is a new psychological drama about a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when one of her best students (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, the film is “an imaginative tale of two strangers and the unbelievable journey that connects them”. Speaking about the film at this year’s CinemaCon, director Kogonada said he “considers it a film about two people reckoning with their pasts to find love in the present.”

Die, My Love

Set in rural America, Die, My Love is a portrait of a woman (Jennifer Lawrence) engulfed by love and madness. Robert Pattinson plays her husband, and LaKeith Stanfield, her lover. The thriller is directed by Lynne Ramsay and adapted from the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz.

Deliver Me From Nowhere

Jeremy Allen White stars as Bruce Springsteen in this rockstar biopic. The film is based on the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska and sees Jeremy Strong star alongside The Bear actor as Springsteen’s manager, Jon Landau. At CinemaCon, White said of the upcoming project, “I feel really lucky we all had Bruce’s blessing on this film. It’s the story of a very particular moment in Bruce’s life when he was trying to reconcile the pressure of success and the ghosts of his past.”

Eddington

Not too much is known about the plot specifics for Ari Aster’s latest film, but we do know that it will be a unique take on the classic Western, blending with black comedy themes. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward and Clifton Collins Jr.

Father, Mother, Sister, Brother

Rumoured to be premiering at Cannes Film Festival next month, this film is a comedy but with threads of melancholy. It follows “three separate stories, all of which concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents) and each other. Each of the three parts takes place in the present, and each in a different country. Father is set in the north-east US, Mother in Ireland, and Sister Brother in France.”

Father, Mother, Sister, Brother stars Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat.

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