The 2025 Sundance Film Festival has come to an end, helping jump start the 2025 new movie year by premiering a number of movies that are going to get people’s attention over the course of the next 12 months. While I wasn’t in Park City, Utah, I paid close attention to what movies were garnering some major buzz and keeping an eye on early reviews from critics in attendance, looking to ID some of the potential breakout Sundance movies from this year’s program.
As many movie fans know, Sundance is one of the biggest film festivals in the world, where a number of movies that become eventual hits and award-winners make their premiere. Just look at last year’s offerings, which included Oscar-nominees A Real Pain, A Different Man and Sugarcane, as well as critical darlings like Didi, Love Lies Bleeding and My Old Ass. And of course a few years ago Sundance was where Best Picture winner CODA premiered. Long story short, every year we get a couple of big movies from Sundance, so what 2025 Sundance movies have the chance to be the breakouts?
