A month-by-month breakdown of the best summer movies 2025 has to offer, from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning and The Fantastic Four: First Steps to How to Train Your Dragon, Superman, and more.
The weather is starting to get warm. You (or your kids) are out of school for a few months. All the skate parks are overrun by zombies, all the bowling alleys are infested by giant spiders, and all the amusement parks are allergic to providing shade, for some reason. In other words, it’s a great time to hit up your local movie theater (or, in the case of the streaming titles we’ve included, to stay home).
And since there’s so much for you to choose from this summer, we’ve put together a handy list of the most talked-about and hotly anticipated movies coming out in the next few months. See the full list below, and plan accordingly.
Almost seven years after 2018’s A Simple Favor left one character in jail and the other with a publishing deal, we’re getting a sequel. Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick reprise their roles in this story that follows Emily’s (Lively) wedding with Stephanie (Kendrick) as her maid of honor. The film is a Prime Video exclusive.
The Surfer is a psychological thriller that follows the story of a father (Nicolas Cage) who returns to his Australian hometown beach with his and son and faces off against a band of local bullies. The film was a hit with critics when it premiered at Cannes in 2024.
The next chapter of the MCU follows a ragtag group of former villains and side characters who, in the absence of the Avengers, are tasked with teaming up to take down a new adversary.
After the cult success of Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Eli Craig returns with a new slasher following a father-daughter duo who move to a struggling small town whose residents are terrorized by a creepy clown named Frendo.
Writer-director Andrew DeYoung makes his feature debut with this unsettling comedy starring comedian Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd as new neighbors who become part of the same friend group before their newfound friendship is abruptly cut short. Think of it as the polar opposite companion piece to I Love You, Man. The film opens in limited release on May 9 and expands wide on May 23.
Just in time for its 25th anniversary, the Final Destination franchise is back, this time focusing on a college student whose family is targeted because her grandmother cheated death decades prior.
Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye teams up with It Comes at Night and Waves director Trey Edward Shults for this psychological thriller that serves as a companion piece to his album of the same name.
Return to 1988 Shadyside this summer for a new Fear Street movie, based on R.L. Stine’s book series of the same name. In this adaptation of 1992’s The Prom Queen, an unlikely nominee for the titular honor emerges as her competitors begin mysteriously disappearing. This film streams as a Netflix exclusive.
The family favorite Disney classic returns to screens in live-action format, retelling the story of a mischievous alien who crash lands on Earth and befriends a young girl and her family.
The eighth installment of the Mission Impossible franchise picks up where 2024’s Dead Reckoning left off, with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) searching for a lost submarine that serves as the source of a dangerous, weaponized AI.
This A24 horror story revolves around a pair of siblings who enter foster care after the death of their mother and discover a horrifying secret in their new home. The film is directed by Danny and Michael Philippou, whose Talk to Me was one of the best horror films of 2023.
The latest chapter in the now 40-plus-year-old Karate Kid saga brings together the old and the new, as Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso teams up with Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han from the 2010 version of The Karate Kid to train a new student for a tournament in New York.
Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded ensemble comedy follows a wealthy man (Benicio del Toro) and his daughter (Mia Threapleton) as they navigate the perils — both economic and life-threatening — of their family business.
Set in the John Wick universe, specifically between Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, Ballerina stars Ana de Armas as an assassin trained by the Ruska Roma criminal organization who sets out to avenge her father’s death.
This horror thriller from Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones, The Devil’s Candy) centers on a surfer who is kidnapped by a serial killer and taken out to sea with plans to feed her to sharks.
Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan tackles another Stephen King adaptation, albeit one of the author’s more uplifting tales, chronicling three chapters in the life of of an ordinary man with a touch of fantasy thrown in.
The first animated film in the Predator franchise is an anthology of three stories following humans facing off against the alien hunters: a Viking, a ninja, and a World War II pilot. The film will stream exclusively on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in international markets.
After a trio of critically and commercially successful animated adaptations, the How to Train You Dragon franchise expands with a live-action remake of the first film, telling the story of a young Viking who defies his clan’s long-standing traditions by befriending a dragon.
Writer-director Celine Song follows up her acclaimed debut Past Lives with this romantic comedy about a high-profile matchmaker (Dakota Johnson) torn between a wealthy suitor (Pedro Pascal) and an ex-boyfriend (Chris Evans).
Danny Boyle returns to take the reins in 28 Years Later, once again collaborating with 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland. Set 28 years after the first film (of course), the story centers on a man and his son as they leave the safety of their island community and uncover secrets on the mainland.
The latest from Pixar follows the story of Elio, an imaginative 11-year-old boy who is accidentally beamed into space and mistaken as an ambassador for Earth.
Directed by the man who gave us the top-shelf action of Top Gun: Maverick and filmed on location at Grand Prix circuits across the world, F1 tells the story of a former Formula One driver (Brad Pitt) who is coaxed to come out of retirement to mentor a promising young rookie (Damson Idris).
Writer-director Eva Victor also stars in her own feature debut, an award-winning comedy-drama about a young English professor coming to terms with the ways a traumatic event in her past has affected her life.
Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali headline this return to the Jurassic franchise as the core members of a team tasked with infiltrating the original Jurassic Park island to collect samples for a pharmaceutical company. Everything goes exactly as planned, and everyone lives happily ever after.
James Gunn writes and directs DC’s latest iteration of the Last Son of Krypton, as David Corenswet takes on the mantle of a young Clark Kent attempting to reconcile his alien origins with his human upbringing.
Ari Aster’s latest film is a modern Western set during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic that chronicles a standoff between the sheriff and mayor of a small fictional town in New Mexico.
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reunite in this reboot-quel of the classic slasher franchise that tells the story of a group of friends who cover up their involvement in a fatal car accident, only to be terrorized by a mysterious stalker who claims to know what they did… last summer.
Rihanna leads an all-star cast (and provides some new original songs) as the voice of Smurfette in this hybrid live-action/animated film that sees the Smurfs cross over into the real world when Papa Smurf is kidnapped by evil wizards Gargamel and Razamel.
The wait is over: the Fantastic Four are finally joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and there’s no Scarlet Witch to stop them this time. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn star as Marvel’s First Family as they square off against the planet-eating cosmic entity known as Galactus.
Adam Sandler revives his hockey goon-turned-golf-sensation for this sequel, in which an out-of-practice Happy must learn to adjust to the fact that every golfer now can hit the ball just as hard as he used to. Happy Gilmore 2 will stream exclusively on Netflix.
Michael Shanks earned widespread acclaim at Sundance for his feature directorial debut, a body horror thriller about a couple — played by real-life husband and wife Dave Franco and Alison Brie — who find themselves slowly merging with each other physically after they drink from a mysterious pool of water in a cave.
The Bad Guys are now Good Guys, even if not everyone is willing to believe it, but the titular team meets its match when a female gang of criminals persuades them to turn back to their life of crime for one last job.
The late, great Leslie Nielsen’s iconic portrayal of the unintentionally effective detective Frank Drebin lives on in the form of Liam Neeson, who plays Frank Drebin, Jr. in this reboot (sequel?) of the police spoof franchise.
Taron Egerton stars in this action thriller as an ex-con who reunites with his estranged daughter and must protect her from the criminal elements on his trail.
After more than 20 years, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reunite for a sequel to the 2003 body-switch comedy. Rosalind Chao, Chad Michael Murray, and Mark Harmon also reprise their roles from the original film, and joining them are folks like Manny Jacinto, Julia Butters, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan.
Zach Cregger follows up his 2022 hit Barbarian with another horror mystery with a wild premise. Julia Garner stars as an elementary school teacher who becomes the center of her town’s attention when all of the students in her class suddenly vanish without a trace one night.
Bob Odenkirk reprises his role as Hutch Mansell, the retired assassin-turned-family man, who just wants to spend some quality vacation time with his wife and kids. Unfortunately, his road trip inadvertently lands him smack dab in the middle of a criminal conspiracy, and his instincts take over.
Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, and Halsey headline writer-director Tony Tost’s crime thriller (his feature debut) following a handful of loosely connected characters all in pursuit of a valuable, legendary shirt.
The second of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s unofficial “queer B-movie trilogy” (after Drive-Away Dolls), this crime comedy stars Margaret Qualley as a private investigator who’s tasked with looking into a suspicious car accident and ends up uncovering a whole series of criminal misadventures tied to a cult-like church.
Darren Aronofsky’s latest film assembles a top-tier cast for a dark comedy about a former baseball player (Austin Butler) who struggles to survive after he inadvertently gets wrapped up in the criminal underworld of 1990s New York City.
Jay Roach’s new adaptation of the 1981 novel The War of the Roses stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as a successful and seemingly happy couple whose simmering marital issues rise to the surface when one begins to succeed while the other’s career tanks.
Peter Dinklage stars in this new take on the cult classic dark comedy, in which a lowly janitor mutated by a freak accident becomes a mop-wielding vigilante.
