From feel-good family films to a zombie horde sequel: The most anticipated movies of 2025
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Whether you go to the movies to laugh, cry or escape reality, 2025 looks primed to offer up something for everyone. CTV film critic Richard Crouse has put together a list of some of the most anticipated films.
Whether you go to the movies to laugh, cry or escape reality, 2025 looks primed to offer up something for everyone. Here’s a list I’ve put together of some of the most anticipated films, organized by genre, including the anticipated release date for each.
Captain America: Brave New World (Release Date: Feb. 14, 2025): When Stan Rogers (Chris Evans) handed his shield to former pararescueman Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), a.k.a. The Falcon at the end of “Endgame,” it marked an exchange of power that went on to be explored in the Disney+ series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and on the big screen in the upcoming “Captain America: Brave New World.”
Mackie says his iteration of Cap will use “more of his wit than his fist. He’s more of a friend to everyone.”
A Minecraft Movie (Release Date: April 4, 2025): Earlier this year, fans of the world-building videogame “Minecraft” helped a meme of an excitable Jack Black roaring “I am Steve” go viral. In April, we’ll have a chance to see the clip in context when the live action “A Minecraft Movie” is released in theatres.
The family-friendly action movie stars Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen as unlikely heroes and underdogs drawn into the Overworld, a strange place that thrives on imagination. To escape, they must team with a master crafter named Steve.
Director Jared Hess says they opted for a live-action approach, because the game’s fans have already created “amazing stories, and short films, and content in the animation space… this is the chance for us, doing a film, to do something different."
Thunderbolts* (Release Date: May 5, 2025): In “Thunderbolts*,” the final film of Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a team of anti-heroes—including Black Widow Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), super-soldier Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Alexei Shostakov a.k.a. Red Guardian (David Harbour) and Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, (Harrison Ford)—are brought together to do go on secret missions for the government.
