Dedicated to cinephiles is The Newyorker’s mini-guide to the best films of 2025 for which we already have more or less confirmed release dates. Will you be able to like them? Let us know with an email or post.
Presence, by Steven Soderbergh, to be released on January 17.
Soderbergh’s new signature horror film after the 2017 psychological thriller Unsane, which already drew rave reviews at its presentation at the Sundance Festival, winning over audiences of “Haunted House” fans.
It stars Lucy Liu and Julia Fox, is set in the classic haunted house in the American suburbs, and is mostly told from the unusual and terrifying point of view of the “presence” living there.
Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, by Michael Morris, due out Feb. 13.
Nearly twenty-five years after the release of the romantic comedy Bridget Jones’s Diary, based on the novel by Helen Fielding, here comes the third sequel in which Renée Zellweger returns to star as Bridget the bungler.
In the last chapter (Bridget Jones’s Baby) we left her freshly married to Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and the mother of a newborn child. Now we will find her a widow, with two dependent young boys and the usual depression. To rebuild her life she will once again find herself having to choose between two suitable candidates, one a teacher of her children (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the other several years her junior (Leo Woodall).
Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson also return to the cast.
The Monkey, by Osgood Perkins, due out Feb. 17.
One more horror film (2025 is shaping up to be the year of horror films), this time directed by actor, screenwriter and director Osgood Perkins, a.k.a. Oz, the son of Antony (does the title Psyco ring a bell?), former author of Longlegs, which has been much talked about.
The Monkey is based on a Stephen King short story and stars twin brothers and a toy monkey with disturbing paranormal powers. Theo James plays both main characters; he is joined by Tatiana Maslany and Elijah Wood.
Snow White, by Marc Webber, due out March 21.
Disney’s new version of the 1937 animated super classic is a live action film that debuts preceded by a whole series of controversies. For the choice of a protagonist of color (as was already the case with The Little Mermaid), of actors not suffering from dwarfism (but shrunken in computer graphics) to play the Seven Dwarfs, and for Gal Gadot’s (who plays the Evil Queen) stances in support of Israel in the debate over the ongoing war in Gaza.
The cast features Rachel Zegler in the lead role, joined by Gadot and Andrew Burnap as the prince. Otherwise the film seems very classic; one only has to hope that the kiss between the two leads is at least consensual.
The amateur, by James Hawes, due out April 11.
A rather unusual spy story based on the novel by American journalist and intelligence expert Robert Littell, from which a film starring John Savage and Christopher Plummer was already made in 1981.
It tells the story of a CIA cryptographer whose wife is killed during a terrorist attack, who decides to convince the agency to make him an operative to hunt down the assassins. The cast is quite interesting: the main character is Rami Malek, his wife is played by Rachel Brosnahan, and Laurence Fishburne, Catriona Balfe, and Jon Bernthal appear in other roles.
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