Best New Movies of 2025, Ranked by Tomatometer

Critics Consensus: Revealing character through the rules of the game, Eephus is a bittersweet baseball outing thrown at a perfect pitch.

Critics Consensus: Taking a hammer and chisel to a quintessential fairy tale, The Ugly Stepsister‘s masterful application of gore and subversion are the stuff that nightmares are made of.

Critics Consensus: Buoyed by Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff’s appealingly sweet performances, A Nice Indian Boy navigates cultural mores and romance with an infectiously kind heart.

Critics Consensus: The Ballad of Wallis Island hums along a sweet melody without lapsing into outright sentimentality, mining a great deal of warmth from its humble premise.

Critics Consensus: Sleek in design and spiked with dry wit, Black Bag is an exemplary espionage caper that lets movie stars like Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender do what they do best — light up the screen.

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.

Critics Consensus: Navigating a diabolical story with fleet-footed tonal mastery, Misericorida is another superb foray into the dangers of desire from writer-director Alain Guiraudie.

Critics Consensus: A fiendishly clever contraption that doesn’t rest on the laurels of its twists, Companion thrillingly puts the demented into domestic bliss.

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.

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.

Critics Consensus: Narratively cut to the bone and geared up with superb filmmaking craft, Warfare evokes the primal terror of combat with unnerving power.

Critics Consensus: Exuberant in both its palette and sound, The Colors Within gets the band together to deliver a kaleidoscopic celebration of human connection.

Critics Consensus: Heavy on mood and existential terror, The Damned‘s patient approach to horror pays off with cerebral chills.

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.

Critics Consensus: Director Miguel Gomes continues to leverage the possibilities of cinema to explore passion and time in this globetrotting lark, richly realized in striking black-and-white photography.

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.

Critics Consensus: A slow-burning spectral thriller, Presence reaffirms that Soderbergh plays with form as deftly as he flits between genres.

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.

Critics Consensus: An amusingly perceptive comedy about the push and pull of friendship, Sacramento glows with charm even when its characters drive each other mad.

Critics Consensus: Restoring much of Looney Tunes‘ quintessential charm with a daffy dose of high energy and inventive gags, The Day the Earth Blew Up goes to show that these iconic characters remain evergreen fun.

Critics Consensus: A Hitchcockian thriller that cleverly utilizes modern technology for its twists and turns, Drop delivers on its pulpy premise while providing a welcome showcase for leading lady Meghann Fahy.

Critics Consensus: A stimulating sci-fi that invests its high concept into ideas rather than special effects, The Assessment puts a trio of superb performances under a microscope and invites the audience to join in the scrutiny.

Critics Consensus: The Penguin Lessons is appealing even if it curiously elides some disturbing geopolitical history, and is elevated by a winning performance from Steve Coogan with a little help from a lovable pint-sized companion.

Critics Consensus: Leavening its parable of grief with some adorable human-canine bonding, The Friend is a winsome dramedy that’ll resonate with pet owners and just about anyone who’s experienced loss.

Critics Consensus: Getting an adrenaline shot from Jack Quaid and Amber Midthunder’s considerable charm while finding increasingly demented ways to utilize its concept, Novocaine is the opposite of a pain to watch.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Critics Consensus: One of director Atom Egoyan’s most successful efforts in years and a multidimensional showcase for Amanda Seyfried, Seven Veils dives from the rafters to make an uneven but ultimately insightful landing.

Critics Consensus: Hypnotic and stylish if a little too indulgent in its pacing, Gazer is an intriguing mood piece featuring a terrific performance by Ariella Mastroianni.

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.

Critics Consensus: Emily Bett Rickards is terrific in this straightforward sports biopic, which puts on a good show even if it only glancingly grapples with the surface of its true story.