The 10 Best Movies of 2025 So Far

sondramedia’s Mid-12 months Report continues with a roundup of the ten Finest Motion pictures of 2025 to date. Keep tuned for extra lists all through the week as we chart the opposite media that captured our consideration within the first half of the yr — just like the 30 Finest Albums of 2025 thus far.

Vampires. Battle. Male friendship. Actually unhealthy days. What’s most fun about the most effective motion pictures of 2025 to date is that whereas there are a couple of franchise entries amongst our favorites, so lots of them characterize the daring innovation potential in movie, when proficient filmmakers are given the prospect to essentially play on the display screen. (Together with these franchise entries, consider it or not.)

To this point in 2025, the films have reinvented the musical biopic (once more), discovered an ingenious new method to inform tales about predators, and reminded us how a lot enjoyable it may be when horror and comedy mix. Not the entire beneath movies have burned up the field workplace, however a couple of of them have carried out admirably properly, as theatrical distribution frequently proves its potential to remain alive in opposition to unimaginable odds. The enduring message is that audiences will go to theaters, if correctly motivated — and nothing’s extra motivating than a genuinely nice film.

— Liz Shannon Miller
Senior Leisure Editor