2025 was a banger year for movies, and we’ve got the receipts to prove it.
From superhero films to original stories, audiences flocked to the box office this year, and they couldn’t stop talking about them on social media either.
Weapons and Sinners were horror movie hits, while Superman marked a new era for a classic character and Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning ended the era for another.
Based on IMDb rating, Watch With Us ranks the ten most popular movies of 2025.
See where your favorite fell on our list
10. ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’
IMDb rating: 5.9
Former covert operative Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) leads a team into the most dangerous part of the world on a mission to retrieve genetic material from the last remaining dinosaurs. Sequestered in a warm climate near the equator, Bennett journeys there to find the monsters alongside pharmaceutical executive Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend), paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Johnathan Bailey) and Bennett’s longtime associate Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali).
But when they become shipwrecked there alongside a stranded family, they must delve into the heart of the deadly place, where even deadlier secrets about Jurassic Park remain.
9. ‘Happy Gilmore 2’
IMDb rating: 6.1
One of Adam Sandler‘s most iconic ’90s comedies gets the late-in-life sequel treatment with Happy Gilmore 2. After winning six Tour Championships in his career, Happy retired following the accidental death of his wife, Virginia (Julie Bowen), which led him to lose everything.
However, when Happy’s youngest daughter wants ballet lessons at a prestigious school, he decides to return to the sport that made him, and in the process, reinvigorates his life and the love of the game. The movie features several returning characters and cameos, including Steve Buscemi, Christopher McDonald and Ben Stiller.
8.’Thunderbolts’
IMDb rating: 7.1
An unconventional group of anti-heroes is forced to work together in this year’s addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Thunderbolts* stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Lewis Pullman, Olga Kurylenko and Hannah John-Kamen as the titular castoffs, who are first seen captured inside a death trap.
Upon escaping, they find themselves embarking on a dangerous mission that simultaneously forces them to confront their tormented pasts. The asterisk in the film’s title was a cheeky gimmick: the Thunderbolts are eventually revealed to be the New Avengers, with the film’s title changed accordingly during the film’s end credits.
7. ‘Superman’
IMDb rating: 7.1
While enjoying his reign as Earth’s most beloved superhero (and still successfully undercover as Metropolis reporter Clark Kent), Superman (David Corenswet) finds himself turned into a fugitive. When his arch nemesis, Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), reveals a dark message sent to him from his Kryptonian parents, it gives Luthor the chance to get the Man of Steel out of the picture for good.
Struggling to clear his name and stop Luthor, Superman enlists help from his beloved Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) and his fellow journalists at The Daily Planet, alongside his trusty four-legged dog, Krypto.
6. ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’
IMDb rating: 7.2
The second part of the final installment in Tom Cruise’s long-running and wildly popular Mission Impossible series sees Ethan Hunt (Cruise) go for one last spin, fighting elite bad guys and performing death-defying acts to save the world.
The Final Reckoning picks up right where Dead Reckoning left off, with Ethan and his IMF team on a mission to defeat a rogue artificial intelligence known as the Entity from destroying the world. The Entity has infiltrated intelligence networks globally, and as Hunt races to stop it, he is tailed by governments and a shady figure from his past.
5. ‘Frankenstein’
IMDb rating: 7.5
Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel is transposed into a beautiful gothic story of humanity and hubris from dark fantasy maestro Guillermo del Toro. Frankenstein follows the life of Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), a renowned physician with an interest in reanimating human flesh.
After some difficulty, Victor succeeds by successfully reviving dead flesh. However, when his Creature (Jacob Elordi) disappoints him, he damns it to death. And when the Creature survives, it embarks on a mission of revenge against its creator.
4. ‘Weapons’
IMDb rating: 7.5
This ambitious character drama mosaic takes the form of a horror movie about a class of disappeared children and the ostracized teacher accused of kidnapping them. When all but one of Justine Gandy’s (Julia Garner) third-grade class runs out of their homes in the middle of the night, the eyes of a tight-knit Pennsylvania town fall on the young teacher with a history of alcoholism.
But as we move through different perspectives — police officer Paul (Alden Ehrenreich), enraged father Archer (Josh Brolin), drug addict James (Austin Abrams), school principal Marcus (Benedict Wong) — bits and pieces of a sinister plot come into play, all leading to a young boy named Alex Lilly (Cary Christopher).
3. ‘Sinners’
IMDb rating: 7.5
In early-’30s Mississippi, identical twin brothers and gangsters Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their home state after a prolific stint rubbing elbows with Al Capone in Chicago. Using the money they accrued illegally, the twins purchase an old sawmill in order to start a juke joint for the Black community, and are joined by their young, blues-singing cousin Sammie (Miles Caton).
Though the brothers are suddenly confronted with the lives they left behind, they soon find they’ve got more problems than two scorned old flames. An Irish vampire (Jack O’Connell) hears the music emanating from Club Juke, and he’d very much like to be invited inside.
2. ‘F1: The Movie’
IMDb rating: 7.7
Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was once Formula 1’s most talented racer during the 1990s, but an accident that prematurely ended Sonny’s career has left him as a racer-for-hire who never lived up to his potential,
Thirty years after his accident, a struggling F1 team at risk of being sold by its investors convinces Sonny to join them as a second driver, racing alongside hotshot rookie Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). Forced to face an intimidating future that’s already arrived, Sonny seeks some kind of redemption while learning that winning isn’t something you can always do alone.
1. ‘One Battle After Another’
IMDb rating: 7.8
Sixteen years ago, “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) were members of a far-left revolutionary group in Los Angeles known as the French 75. But when Perfidia got caught and gave up names, she went into witness protection and left Pat and their baby daughter to take on new identities on their own.
Now a paranoid stoner dad, Pat, under the pseudonym Bob Ferguson, tries his best to raise his teenage daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti), who has grown up to believe her mom was a hero. But when an enemy (Sean Penn) from their pasts resurfaces and kidnaps Willa, both Bob and his daughter are forced to confront the ghosts of their former lives as they race to find each other.
