My Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies 2025

We are approaching the end of another enjoyable year in film. To look forward to the new year, I have listed the ten films that I am most excited for, coming in 2025. I compiled a similar list last year, and funnily enough, one film, Bong Joon-ho‘s “Mickey 17” returns having been pushed back as a result of the SAG-AFTRA strikes last year.

There are always some surprises and disappointments throughout the year, so I do not expect the ten films listed below to be my favourite movies of the year, but at this early stage they have definitely peaked my interest the most.

Which 2025 release are you most excited for?

Honourable Mentions:

Avatar: Fire and Ash
Ballerina
Black Bag
The Black Phone 2
How to Train Your Dragon
The Monkey
Presence
Sinners
Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project
Wolf Man

10. Wicked: For Good

Dir: Jon M. Chu

Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: After challenging the Wizard’s totalitarian regime in Oz, Elphaba must grapple with her identity as the “Wicked Witch of the West”. Meanwhile, the Wizard has given Glinda the title “Glinda the Good” and a public status as the nation’s defender against Elphaba.

9. Bugonia

Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone

Synopsis: Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

8. F1

Dir: Jospeh Kosinski

Cast: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Javier Bardem, Sarah Niles

Synopsis: Sonny Hayes, a Formula One driver who raced in the 1990s, has a horrible crash, forcing him to retire from Formula One and start racing in other disciplines. A Formula One team owner and friend contacts Hayes and asks him to come out of retirement to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua Pearce for the Apex Grand Prix team (APXGP).

7. Frankenstein

Dir: Guillermo Del Toro

Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer

Synopsis: Victor Frankenstein strives to restore life to the dead and succeeds in creating a horrific creature.

6. Warfare

Dir: Ray Mendoza | Alex Garland

Cast: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henrique Zaga, Joseph Quinn, Charles Melton

Synopsis: Navy SEALs overwatch the movement of U.S. forces through insurgent territory in Iraq in 2006.

5. The Running Man

Dir: Edgar Wright

Cast: Glen Powell, Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Jayme Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy

Synopsis: Set in 2025, a game show called The Running Man has people chased by murderous Hunters across the world to win money.

4. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Dir: Rian Johnson

Cast: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church

Synopsis: Benoit Blanc returns in his most dangerous case yet.

3. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Dir: Christopher McQuarrie

Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Angela Bassett, Henry Czerny

Synopsis: The final instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, following Ethan Hunt and his IMF team as they attempt to shut down the Artificial Intelligence capable of taking over the world.

2. Mickey 17

Dir: Bong Joon-ho

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo

Synopsis: Wanting to get out of Earth, Mickey Barnes signs up to be an “expendable”: a disposable employee where after one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of their memories intact. After one of his “multiples”, Mickey 17, unintentionally survives a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim, he goes head-to-head with a new multiple, Mickey 18.

1. 28 Years Later

Dir: Danny Boyle

Cast: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: It’s been almost three decades since the Rage Virus escaped a medical research laboratory, and in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, they discover secrets, wonders, and horrors of the outside world.