(Photo by Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection. MICKEY 17.)
Best New Movies of 2025, Ranked by Tomatometer
The latest: We’ve added the sub-nautical thriller Last Breath, Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson’s long-gestating Mickey 17, Indian ode to movie-making Superboys of Malegaon, and dark comedy My Dead Friend Zoe.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is Certified Fresh, and atop the franchise including Bridget Jones’s Diary (81%), The Edge of Reason (27%), and Bridget Jones’s Baby (78%).
It’s a family affair with Dog Man going Certified Fresh, and a beloved bear successfully goes global with Paddington in Peru.
Welcome to the best new movies of 2025! (If you’re looking for the previous big list of 2024’s best movies, it’s now in this guide, or you can find it using the navigation links below.) We’re adding the latest Certified Fresh films as they come out, so check back every week! Every day, works too.
Previous best movies by year: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024
#1
Critics Consensus: Carrying off painful subject matter with a light touch, My Dead Friend Zoe invites audiences to a healing process that comes with both chuckles and tears.
Synopsis: MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE is a dark comedy drama that follows the journey of Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), a U.S. Army
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#2
Critics Consensus: A fiendishly clever contraption that doesn't rest on the laurels of its twists, Companion thrillingly puts the demented into domestic bliss.
Synopsis: New Line Cinema--the studio that brought you "The Notebook"--and the unhinged creators of "Barbarian" cordially invite you to experience a
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#3
Critics Consensus: Dishing out enough laughter and chemistry to spare through Keke Palmer and SZA, One of Them Days makes the buddy-comedy genre feel like magic once again.
Synopsis: Best friends and roommates Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) are about to have One of Them Days. When they
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#4
Critics Consensus: Paddington in Peru whisks away cinema's politest bear to a fresh setting under new creative stewardship, delivering a most agreeable adventure for the whole family.
Synopsis: When Paddington discovers his beloved aunt has gone missing from the Home for Retired Bears, he and the Brown family
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#5
Critics Consensus: Exuberant in both its palette and sound, The Colors Within gets the band together to deliver a kaleidoscopic celebration of human connection.
Synopsis: Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the 'colors' of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and
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#6
Critics Consensus: By withholding clear heroes or easy villains in its tale of a destructive neighborly feud, Bring Them Down stands out as an exceptionally nuanced exercise in vengeance.
Synopsis: Starring Oscar-nominee Barry Keoghan (Saltburn, The Banshees of Inisherin) and Christopher Abbott (Possessor, Sanctuary), BRING THEM DOWN is a tense
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#7
Critics Consensus: Heavy on mood and existential terror, The Damned's patient approach to horror pays off with cerebral chills.
Synopsis: Eva (Odessa Young), a 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, in the middle of an especially
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#8
Critics Consensus: A slow-burning spectral thriller, Presence reaffirms that Soderbergh plays with form as deftly as he flits between genres.
Synopsis: A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they're not alone.
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#9
Critics Consensus: A bittersweet romp about new beginnings with another sparkling turn by Renée Zellweger, Mad About the Boy gracefully closes the book on Bridget Jones' diary.
Synopsis: After jumping back into the dating pool, single mother Bridget Jones finds herself caught between a younger man and her
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#10
Critics Consensus: Mickey 17 finds Bong Joon Ho returning to his forte of daffy sci-fi with a withering social critique at its core, proving along the way that you can never have too many Robert Pattisons.
Synopsis: Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.
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#11
Critics Consensus: A tribute to classic films while being a very good one in itself, Superboys of Malegaon is a charming dramedy that will resonate with anyone who's ever been inspired to pick up a camera.
Synopsis: Superboys of Malegaon is a film based on the life of Nasir Shaikh, an amateur filmmaker from the town of
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#12
Critics Consensus: A mixture of gory slasher and sweet rom-com that ingeniously nails both formulas, Heart Eyes serves up a bloody valentine that'll make the heart skip a beat.
Synopsis: For the past several years, the "Heart Eyes Killer" has wreaked havoc on Valentine's Day by stalking and murdering romantic
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#13
Critics Consensus: Realizing Dav Pilkey's canine creation with a frenzied energy that never lets up, Dog Man will delight kids while throwing their parents a bone.
Synopsis: When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but
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#14
Critics Consensus: Ratcheting up the tension to a riveting degree, Last Breath tells a remarkable true story with the utmost efficiency and a dependably terrific performance from Woody Harrelson.
Synopsis: A heart-pounding film that follows seasoned deep-sea divers as they battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds
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#15
Critics Consensus: Whenever Armand's ambitious structure threatens to collapse into its own rabbit hole, Renate Reinsve's outstanding performance holds everything together even as her character's composure falls apart.
Synopsis: When defamed actress Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve) is abruptly called into a parent-teacher meeting after hours, she is presented with scathing
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