The Best Movie Prospects for 2025 (with Trailers)

 

Marvel Studios has way too many movies scheduled for release this year but a couple of them look pretty promising. We've also got another Robert De Niro mob flick and Ryan Coogler's fifth film together to look forward to. Here are those four along with the other top prospects for eager cinephiles this year: 

Captain America: Brave New World

Release Date: February 14

Sam Wilson headlines his first mission in the MCU's comeback film (Admit it, Deadpool & Wolverine was more a sendoff for the 20th Century Fox Universe than anything else). The last good Marvel Studios movie (the streaming series are distractions at best) to follow that universe's storyline was 2023's Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3, so it's high time that Kevin Feige and company got back on track. The Falcon & the Winter Soldier should've been a full-length feature to begin with, so we know that the new Cap has the goods. LFG.

The Alto Knights

Release Date: March 21

Robert De Niro plays dual roles as mob bosses Frank Costello and Vito Genovese in director Barry Levinson's return to the gangster genre (after 1991's Bugsy).

The Amateur

Release Date: April 11

With shades of Sicario, Rami Malek portrays a pencil-pusher who trains to be a CIA field operative in order to get revenge on the terrorists who killed his wife.

Warfare

Release Date: April 11

This true-to-life story follows a platoon of Navy SEALs behind enemy lines in 2006 Iraq.

Sinners

Release Date: April 18

Good things always happen when critically-acclaimed director Ryan Coogler teams up with Michael B. Jordan. This time they've collaborated on a vampire thriller, which sounds like a cinematic slam-dunk.

Sneaks

Release Date: April 18

Anthony Mackie headlines an all-Black voice cast which includes Martin Lawrence, Laurence Fishburne, and even DJ Mustard, for this animated feature.

The Accountant 2

Release Date: April 25

We'll never see a solo Batfleck movie but at least we'll get Christian Wolff back behind a rifle scope in this long-awaited follow-up to the 2016 original.

Thunderbolts*

Release Date: May 2

The members of the Marvel brain trust deliver their version of the Suicide Squad in this team-up featuring Bucky "The Winter Soldier" Barnes, Alexei "The Red Guardian" Shostakov, Antonia "Taskmaster" Dreykov, Ava "Ghost" Starr, Yelena Belova and John "U.S. Agent" Walker. 

F1

Release Date: June 27

Brad Pitt passes the torch to Damson Idris in this sports drama centering around a retired Formula One driver who mentors a talented rookie.

Nobody 2

Release Date: August 15

Seemingly mild-mannered retired wet work operative Hutch Mansell is back in another ageism-defying mission. Hopefully, this long-awaited sequel doesn't suffer from bigger and louder-itis and instead gives us a continuation of what we loved the first time around.

Tron: Ares

Release Date: October 10

Though Tron's first stab at a sequel (2010's Tron: Legacy) was a spectacular disappointment, the 1982 original was good enough to inspire confidence in another attempt. 

The Black Phone 2

Release Date: October 17

Ethan Hawke's creepy serial killer is back, apparently, in a sequel to one of the best horror movies of the decade. 

The Running Man

Release Date: November 7

Can Glrn Powell fill Arnold's huge, muscle-bound shoes? If Top Gun: Maverick and Twisters are  any indication, the up-and-comer's more than capable of carrying an action movie. And having a more human-looking guy in the lead is a welcome change.