Dedicated to movie buffs is The Newyorker’s mini-guide devoted to the most interesting films of 2025 for which we already have more or less confirmed release dates.
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Mickey 17, by Bong Joon-ho, due out on April 18.
Five years after the critically acclaimed Parasite, Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Oscar for Best Picture in 2019, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho returns to film to direct a sci-fi film.
The story, starring actor Robert Pattinson joined by Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Holliday Grainger, is based on the novel Mickey7 by writer Edward Ashton. Each time “disposable” human employee Mickey, sent to colonize a remote ice planet, dies on a mission, his body is destroyed and molded into a new version. Until one day his last two versions end up meeting, creating a rather significant problem: they will both have to be destroyed. Be warned, however: Mickey 17 is by no means a dramatic film, rather a black comedy that humorously mocks the follies of the human condition with great sarcasm.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, by Christopher McQuarrie, due out May 23.
It is the eighth film in the Mission Impossible saga launched in 1996 by Brian De Palma, starring Tom Cruise as outcast secret agent Ethan Hunt.
Alongside Cruise, all the surviving stars of the franchise return, veterans Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg along with Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Angela Bassett and many others. The film was made at the tail end of the previous Dead Reckoning, which grossed more than half a billion dollars despite severe delays caused by the pandemic and then the Hollywood screenwriters’ strike, and in theory is supposed to be the final chapter in Hunt’s story, in which all the knots are untied.
Will it be like that? We shall see.
Ballerina, by Len Wiseman, due out June 6.
Ana de Armas stars in this spin-off of the John Wick saga launched in 2014 and starring Keanu Reeves (the fourth installment is released in March 2023, the fifth is scheduled for 2026).
Ballerina tells the story of young Russian Roma Eve Macarro, who from a young age is trained as a killer by the Ruska Roma organization after the murder of her parents. Revees also appears in the cast, along with Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Lance Reddick, who passed away in 2023.
The Bride!, by Maggie Gyllenhaal, due out Sept. 26.
After Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Creatures, a new “monster movie” inspired by the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, itself inspired by Mary Shelley’s famous novel.
Set in 1930s Chicago, it sees Frankenstein asking Dr. Euphronio to create a companion for him who can work alongside him, and the two collaborating to bring back to life a murdered woman who will prove to be a real surprise.
The cast includes Jessie Buckley as the resurrected bride and Christian Bale as Frankenstein, along with Jake Gyllenhaal, Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening.
Avatar: Fire and Ash, by James Cameron, due out Dec. 19.
The second sequel to the sci-fi colossal Avatar is scheduled for release next Christmas, following three years later Avatar: the Way of Water.
The cast includes Sam Worthington in the lead role of disabled Marine Jake Sully, transformed through his “avatar” into a native of the planet Pandora, Zoe Saldaña as his delightful indigenous wife, Stephen Lang as the horrible Colonel Quaritch, Sigourney Weaver as Kiri, daughter of Dr. Grace Augustine, who disappeared in the first film. While David Thewlis and Oona Chaplin play new characters.According to spoilers, the film will introduce two new indigenous clans, the Ash People and the Wind People, who will come into conflict with each other and the other groups, telling us about the darker and more violent side of the Na’vi world.
The article The ten movies not to miss in 2025 (part two) comes from TheNewyorker.
