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The Best Movies of 2025 | Chris Lambert

This is a live list where I rank the movies of 2025. If something isn’t on the list, I haven’t seen it. Leave your comments and we’ll talk. The movies within a category are in alphabetical order. I give a lot of weight to scope, scale, and depth. If a movie is higher than you expect, it probably did one or all of those things very well. If it’s lower, well, it probably frustrated me. Full thoughts are available on the all-time rankings page!

Updated 8/10/25

Latest additions: Weapons, Friendship, Fantastic Four, The Monkey The Gorge, Nonnas, Happy Gilmore 2

Note: Each tier is sorted alphabetically

My Favorites

Wow

  1. 28 Years Later
  2. Sinners

Impressive

  1. Black Bag
  2. Friendship
  3. Kpop Demon Hunters
  4. Weapons

Enjoyable

  1. Mickey 17
  2. The Minecraft Movie

Positives 

  1. Eddington
  2. Mission Impossible — The Final Reckoning
  3. Predator: Killer of Killers
  4. The Amateur

Neutral 

  1. Fantastic Four
  2. Nonnas
  3. The Gorge

Almost 

  1. Companion
  2. Mountainhead
  3. Superman 
  4. The Monkey

Not Quite

  1. Captain America: Brave New World
  2. Death of a Unicorn
  3. Happy Gimore 2
  4. Opus
  5. The Alto Knights
  6. Wolf Man

Not For Me

Really Not For Me

Chris Lambert
Chris Lambert

Chris Lambert is the co-founder and lead writer of Film Colossus. He specializes in film interpretation, narrative structure, and explaining how movies use story, imagery, and technique to create meaning. His work on Film Colossus has reached millions of readers, with more than 500 articles covering films ranging from Fight Club and Black Swan to Perfect Blue and The Odyssey.

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you should add superman and f1 too they weren’t horrible.

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