- Updated on November 30, 2025
In 2025, Hollywood showcased its vibrant and diverse storytelling, encompassing a range of genres from historical movies to romantic comedies. The combination of commercial blockbusters and unexpected genre films reflected the evolving tastes of viewers.
Whether you enjoy action, romance, comedy, or supernatural entertainment, this year offered something for every type of movie lover.
In this article, we have curated a list of the top Hollywood movies released in 2025.
Top movies of 2025:
Captain America : Brave New World
- Cast: Anthony Mackie, Tim Blake Nelson, Liv Tyler, Danny Ramirez
- Director: Julius Onah
- Release Date: February 14
Captain America is back and there’s a new hero wielding the shield. Sam Wilson (played by Anthony Mackie) has taken over the mantle of Captain America after Steve Rogers (played by Chris Evan) gave up the title.
California King
- Cast: Jimmy Tatro, Victoria Justice, Travis Bennett, Cooper Sutton, Joel McHale
- Director: Eli Stern
- Release Date: April 25
California King is a crime, comedy movie. Director-writer Stern has cast YouTuber Jimmy Tatro as the main character Perry who kidnaps the brother of the girl of his dream. But, thing becomes chaotic instead of what he had planned.Captain America is back and there’s a new hero wielding the shield. Sam Wilson (played by Anthony Mackie) has taken over the mantle of Captain America after Steve Rogers (played by Chris Evan) gave up the title.
Jurassic World Rebirth
- Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Luna Blaise, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, David Iacono, Ed Skerein, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge
- Director: Gereth Edwards
- Release Date: July 02
The script of the movie is written by David Koepp.
Jurassic World Rebirth is the sequel to Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
Five years after the incidents of Jurassic World Dominion, the environment has become inhospitable to dinosaurs, with survivors in remote tropical areas. Zora Bennett (played by Johansson), a covert operative, is recruited by a pharmaceutical company to work with paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (played by Bailey). They must infiltrate a forbidden island in the Atlantic, the original site of Jurassic Park, to find the three largest remaining prehistoric species, whose biomaterials could lead to a life-saving drug.
Stranded with a civilian family, they encounter mutated dinosaur experiments, including the main antagonist, Distortus rex, a deformed, six-limbed Tyrannosaurus rex.
Osiris
- Cast: Max Martini, Brianna Hildebrand, LaMonica Garrett, Michael Irby, Linda Hamilton
- Director: William Kaufman
- Release Date: July 25
Osiris is a sci-fi action movie written and directed by William Kaufman.
Smurfs
- Voice cast: Rihanna, Nick Offerman, James Corden, J.P. Karliak, Daniel Levy, Sandra Oh, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Jimmy Kimmel, Octavia Spencer, Nick Kroll, Alex Winter, Maya Erskine, John Goodman
- Director: Chris Miller
- Release Date: July 18
Smurfs is a live-action animated musical fantasy comedy film.
A reboot of The Smurfs movie series, Smurfs is co-directed by Matt Landon, from a screenplay written by Pam Brady.
In this movie, when Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards Gargamel and his brother Razamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.
Eden
- Cast: Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, Felix Kammerer, Daniel Brühl, Toby Wallace, Richard Roxburgh
- Director: Ron Howard
- Release Date: August 22
Dr. Friedrich Ritter, a lawyer, and his wife Dora Strauch flee Germany in 1929, rejecting the bourgeois values. They settle on Floreana, an island in the Galápagos archipelago of Ecuador, where Friedrich can focus on writing, and Dora hopes to cure her sclerosis through meditation. However, their plan does not work out.
They are soon joined by Margret and Heinz Wittmer, then Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn, a self-proclaimed baroness, joins them.
Life on Floreana soon proves to be arduous, facing challenges such as inclement weather, lack of amenities, etc.
However, nothing tests their resolve more than the difficulties of coexisting with mean-minded neighbors.
Relay
- Cast: Riz Ahmed, Lily James, Sam Worthington, Willa Fitzgerald,
Matthew Maher, Victor Garber - Director: David MacKenzie
- Release Date: August 22
In this thriller, Riz Ahmed plays Tom, a secretive fixer who brokers payoffs for corrupt corporations. Sarah Grant (played by James) is a potential client who may need his services.
The Thursday Murder Club
- Cast: Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Pierce Brosnan, Celia Imrie, David Tennant, Naomi Ackie, Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Mays, Richard E. Grant
- Director: Chris Columbus
- Release Date: August 28
This movie is about a group of septuagenarian amateur sleuths who attempt to solve a murder case. Among them, one was a spy, one was a nurse, one was a trade union official, and one was a psychiatrist.
The Long Walk
- Cast: Cooper Hoffman, Charlie Plummer, David Jonsson, Ben Wang, Judy Greer, Roman Griffin Davis, Mark Hamill
- Director: Francis Lawrence
- Release Date: September 12
This movie is based on Stephen King’s novel by the same name.
This movie depicts a dystopian United States under a totalitarian regime. In such a situation, some young men compete in an annual walking contest, maintaining three miles per hour non-stop, risking execution until only one remains alive.
The Lost Bus
- Cast: Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera, Yul Vazquez, Ashlie Atkinson
- Director: Paul Greengrass
- Release Date: September 19
Kevin McKay (played by McConaughey), a bus driver has to navigate a bus carrying children and their teacher to safety through the 2018 Camp Fire, which became the deadliest fire in the history of California.
Wicked For Good
- Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh
- Director: Jon M. Chu
- Release date: November 21
Wicked: For Good is a musical fantasy movie written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox.
This movie is the second installment of the two-part Wicked movie franchise.
Against the backdrop of Dorothy’s arrival, the story follows Elphaba and Glinda as their friendship is tested while they embrace their identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good, ultimately changing Oz forever.
The Running Man
- Cast: Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Emilia Jones, Michael Cera, Daniel Ezra, Sean Hayes, Jayme Lawson, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin
- Director: Edgar Wright
- Release date: November 07
The Running Man is an upcoming dystopian action movie co-written and directed by Edgar Wright. This movie is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman).
This movie depicts a game show where contestants are chased by deadly Hunters for a cash prize.
