When we look back at 2025, we’ll likely think of it as a terrific year for the movies.
Maybe it’s because Marvel movies no longer dominated the cultural conversation. Or maybe it’s because box office worries have lead to a little more risk-taking by Hollywood producers. Whatever the reason, big screen releases haven’t had a such a variety of genres, styles, and stories like this since 1999: We had everything from music-driven vampiric period pieces to demon-driven animated musicals; pitch-black alien invasions to sunshine-y alien superheroes; paranoid revolutionary epics to retro-futuristic family affairs. In a politically and economically and globally chaotic year, unique stories broke through the noise to help make sense of it all.
