Now You See Me 3

In Now You See Me 3, old-school illusion meets new technology as the Horsemen team up with young magicians for a bold and stylish crime spectacle

How to Train Your Dragon

DreamWorks slipped its newest Dragon adventure into theaters on 13 June 2025, greeting longtime fans with a familiar whoosh of wings and a few welcome surprises. Although Dean DeBlois directs again, this entry is the franchise’s first live-action film—real actors on practical sets, with photoreal CGI dragons—rather than another animated sequel. The studio trusts its artists to push the medium in a different direction instead of trading it for fully photoreal seams and pixels.

Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch has always stood apart in Disney’s animated canon, blending surf-town sunshine with cosmic chaos and a disarmingly sincere portrait of two sisters holding each other’s world together. The 2025 live-action re-imagining walks onto the beach with more than nostalgic flip-flops to fill. Nearly a quarter-century after Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois introduced Experiment 626, director Dean Fleischer Camp (best known for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) brings a tactile approach that prizes real Hawaiian texture over theme-park gloss. The result is a film that sometimes stumbles under the weight of faithfully recreating famous beats yet ultimately finds fresh water beneath the lava rock by leaning harder into the human drama and trusting its pint-sized heroine to carry scenes that the original left to broad alien antics.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning lands with the weight of franchise history on its shoulders, flaunting a May 22 2025 theatrical release that Paramount marketed as Ethan Hunt’s swan song. Yet the film immediately signals that “final” may be more marketing hook than narrative promise; its opening half hour is a sprawling recap of seven prior chapters, stitched together with voice-overs, news montages, and solemn proclamations about Hunt’s legend. That back-patting prologue nearly stalls the train before it leaves the station, but once Christopher McQuarrie’s camera plunges below the Arctic ice and then rockets toward the stratosphere, the production remembers why audiences still watch these movies on the biggest screen in town.

Captain America: Brave New World

Audiences first saw Captain America: Brave New World when it hit cinemas on 14 February 2025. The honeymoon is gone, one drone-bombed summit in Rio de Janeiro and a new security bill from President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford) leave him navigating the same tense, divided United States the Blip left behind. Meanwhile, Samuel Sterns—finally embracing the full intellect of the Leader (Tim Blake Nelson)—proves that brainpower can be more frightening than brute force. Director Julius Onah, working from a script by Malcolm Spellman and Dalan Muss, blends the political paranoia of The Winter Soldier with the boots-on-the-ground optimism that once defined Steve Rogers.

Dog Man

DreamWorks Animation brings the half-dog, half-cop hero to the big screen, unleashing him on 31 January 2025 after a two-year marketing drumroll that left bookstores scrambling to restock back issues. Director Peter Hastings—best known for his manic work on Animaniacs—doesn’t try to civilize Pilkey’s doodle-chaos. Instead, he leans in, turning every page gag into a sight gag and every flip-book flourish into a camera move. The result is a ninety-six-minute sugar rush that playfully nips the ankle of the traditional “origin movie” while still sneaking in gentle lessons about loyalty, impulse control, and the value of a well-timed belly rub.

Fast X

The Fast and the Furious film franchise is so firmly entrenched in popular culture and viewers' minds that it is hard to imagine the modern world without it. It is as widespread as Corona Extra beer or family values, which the car saga characters have discussed for many years. The Fast and the Furious cannot even end adequately because the tenth film is only the first of a trilogy that is supposed to put an end to the world's most popular car epic.

The Little Mermaid

The young mermaid Ariel (Holly Bailey) is extremely curious about the human world. She is interested in absolutely everything that humanity does, and in a specific underwater cave she keeps her treasures from the land.

Creed III

The Rocky series of films starring Sylvester Stallone has become a kind of unique achievement in the genre of sports dramas. There are no other boxing stories like it that successfully combine naivety, tension and pathos.

Top Gun: Maverick

After 36 years, Tom Cruise returns to the role of Pete Mitchell, aka Maverick. The original 1986 film Top Gun has become a classic to some measure. It was directed by the late British director Tony Scott, the younger brother of Ridley Scott.