IndieWire’s 52 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025

So 2024 isn’t quite in the rearview, as we still have awards season chores to get through, after all. But as the churn of ceremonies from the Golden Globes (this Sunday, January 5) to the Oscars (March 2) remains underway in honoring the same handful of 2024 movies for the next two months, it’s refreshing to at least survey what’s new and upcoming in 2025.

In other words, the movies no one’s talking about yet but sure will be soon enough.

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Inevitably, at least a few of IndieWire’s 50 most anticipated films of this year will end up in the same awards conversation this time next (oh, God) year. From 2024 festival holdovers to strike-halted or repeatedly rescheduled (we’re looking at you, “Mickey 17“) originals and buzzy franchise entries, these are the movies we’re most looking forward to this year.

Granted, we’ve already gotten started on the Best Films of 2025 we’ve already seen (and you can expect some overlap here), but what about what we haven’t seen? New movies from Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Celine Song, Yorgos Lanthimos, and more of our favorite auteurs are already confirmed for new releases in theaters in 2025.

While we tried to keep this list mostly to titles with confirmed distribution, we cheated a little, as no most-anticipated list would be complete without mentions of new films from the likes of Lynne Ramsay and Wes Anderson. Especially since Ramsay, who’s had starts and stops on a number of projects in recent years, hasn’t directed a feature since 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here.” Even without a U.S. distributor, expect movies like her “Die, My Love” and Anderson’s espionage ensemble package “The Phoenician Scheme” to pop at festivals before inevitably (and, hopefully, soon after or before their fest bows) securing a stateside theatrical ride.

There’s a lot of buzzy horror this year, especially from A24, with films like “Opus” and “Talk to Me” directors Danny and Michael Philippou’s “Bring Her Back,” plus new franchise releases elsewhere. January is often the cruelest month for new releases, but we’re intrigued by Leigh Wannell’s “Wolf Man,” starring Christopher Abbott in a modern-day spin on the Universal monster. Ryan Coogler’s horror “Sinners” with Michael B. Jordan is drumming up plenty of buzz via Warner Bros. (who have “Mickey 17” and the Paul Thomas Anderson movie among others), while new “Saw” and “Final Destination” entries will have legacy genre fans at attention. Sequels and spinoffs abound, from new “Mission: Impossible” and “Jurassic World” films, “28 Years Later,” “Freakier Friday,” another “Superman” movie, and much more.

Peruse IndieWire’s most-anticipated list below, while knowing some titles confirmed to release this year don’t yet have dates. Any day now!

Christian Blauvelt, Wilson Chapman, Alison Foreman, David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland, Jim Hemphill, Marcus Jones, Tony Maglio, Harrison Richlin, Erin Strecker, Brian Welk, and Christian Zilko contributed to this story.

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