36 Action Movies Coming in 2025 That You Need to Know About

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The way things are looking, we could all use some good, old escapism in 2025. Going to the cinema is always a surefire way to tune out and into another world for a while—and sometimes action movies, with their gripping plots, high-octane stunts, and blockbuster qualities are the best for that.

There are dozens of exciting action movies due out in 2025, from intriguing, women-fronted spinoffs of beloved franchises to highly anticipated sequels to original assassin and espionage thrillers. Whether you love classic, big-budget action films or prefer ones that defy genre a bit, there's likely something coming soon that'll draw you to the multiplex or captivate you on streaming. Below, find the best action movies of 2025, including what's coming soon and due out later this year. (For more recommendations of titles you can watch right now, check out our list of the best action movies of 2024.)

'Back in Action'

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Release Date: January 17 on Netflix

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jamie Foxx, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou, Kyle Chandler, and Glenn Close

Why it’s worth watching: Cameron Diaz is officially back in action after taking a hiatus from acting. The ‘90s/’00s rom-com icon leads this action-comedy alongside Jamie Foxx as a couple pulled back into the espionage work they left years ago for a quiet, domestic life together when their secret CIA identities are almost exposed. We can’t wait to see the former Charlie’s Angel in her element.

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'Inheritance'

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Release date: January 24

Starring: Phoebe Dynevor, Rhys Ifans, Ciara Baxendale, and Kersti Bryan

Why it’s worth seeing: Phoebe Dynevor showed her erotic/workplace thriller chops in Fair Play, so we can’t wait to see her in an espionage movie. She leads this thriller as a young woman drawn into an international conspiracy when she learns that her father used to be a spy.

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'The Gorge'

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Release date: February 14 on Apple TV+

Starring: Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver, Sope Dirisu, and William Houston

Why it’s worth seeing: After her incredible turn as a bonafide action star in Furiosa, we’ll watch Anya Taylor-Joy lead any action-thriller movie. She and Miles Teller play guards holding posts on the opposite sides of a mysterious gorge, which houses a secret evil. Though they don’t know what they’re protecting, they work together when it comes under threat. The screenplay for The Gorge ended up on the 2020 Black List, or the list of the best-unproduced scripts, so you can bet it’ll be gripping.

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'Cleaner'

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Release date: February 21

Starring: Daisy Ridley, Clive Owen, Taz Skylar, Flavia Watson, and Ray Fearon

Why it’s worth seeing: Martin Campbell, who directed multiple James Bond movies including 2006’s beloved Casino Royale, is behind this high-intensity action-thriller. It’s set at a political function that’s hijacked by a group of activists, some of which become violent and take hostages. Thankfully for the attendees, the building’s window cleaner (yes, that’s where the film gets its title) played by Daisy Ridley is present, doing her job, and actually a “dishonorably discharged but highly trained ex-soldier.”

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'Mickey 17'

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Release date: March 7

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo

Why it’s worth seeing: Bong Joon-ho is finally back with his follow-up to the Oscar-winning Parasite. The Korean filmmaker's latest is a highly anticipated adaptation of the sci-fi novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, about a man (Robert Pattinson) set on a mission in space who’s meant to die…and be brought back to life again and again. Bong and star Robert Pattinson cooked up some goofy madness—and a surprisingly heartwarming romance between his hopelessly devoted character and Naomi Ackie's Nasha.

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'Black Bag'

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Release date: March 14

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Pierce Brosnan, and Tom Burke

Why it’s worth watching: Cate Blanchett in a Steven Soderbergh movie? Let’s go, baby! The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s newest is about a loving married couple and spy duo (Blanchett and Michael Fassbender) who start to face off when one of them (Blanchett) is suspected of treason.

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'Novocaine'

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Relese date: March 14

Starring: Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Jacob Batalon, Betty Gabriel, and Matt Walsh

Why it’s worth watching: Anything with Jack Quaid as a romantic lead, we’re in. In Novocaine, he plays a man with congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), or a rare condition in which he cannot feel any pain. He uses his condition to his advantage to transform into the action hero he never thought he’d be when his girlfriend is stuck in a dangerous hostage situation.

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'Freaky Tales'

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Release date: April 4

Starring: Pedro Pascal, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, and Angus Cloud

Why it’s worth seeing: This one’s for those with a deep affinity for the Bay Area—and anyone down for a wild, genre-bending ride. Set in 1987 in Oakland, California, it centers around a career criminal (Pedro Pascal) sent out on one final job to rob a Warriors player (Jay Ellis), but features a quirky cast of characters (very ‘80s punks, rappers, and a whole slew of corrupt figures, oh my!) who end up being connected.

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'G20'

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Release date: April 10 on Prime Video

Starring: Viola Davis, Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin, Ramón Rodríguez, Antony Starr, Douglas Hodge, Elizabeth Marvel, Sabrina Impacciatore, and Clark Gregg

Why it’s worth seeing: We’d vote for President Viola Davis, erm, her character President Danielle Sutton if she could! She’s tasked with protecting her family and world leaders at the G20 Summit in South Africa when terrorists attack—so we can only begin to fathom what incredible ass-kicking Davis does in this film.

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'The Amateur'

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Release Date: April 11

Starring: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, Danny Sapani, and Laurence Fishburne

Why it’s worth seeing: This book-to-movie adaptation of Robert Littell’s mystery-thriller novel of the same name stars Rami Malek as a CIA cryptographer on a one-man vengeance mission. He sets out to get to the bottom of a terrorist attack in London, which resulted in his wife’s death, when his bosses won’t act.

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'Warfare'

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Release date: April 11

Starring: D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Ta, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henrique Zaga, Joseph Quinn, and Charles Melton

Why it’s worth seeing: Just about every one of our internet boyfriends of the past several years fills out this impressive ensemble. The promising young stars will play a platoon of Navy Seals on a 2006 mission during the Iraq War in Civil War filmmaker Alex Garland’s latest action-drama for A24, which he collaborated on with ex-Navy Seal Ray Mendoza.

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'The Accountant 2'

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Release date: April 25

Starring: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, J. K. Simmons, Daniella Pineda, and Allison Robertson

Why it’s worth seeing: Ben Affleck is back as Christian Wolff, the titular accountant on the autism spectrum with a knack for numbers and covering up his clients’s nefarious fraudulent records. The sequel to the 2016 box-office hit sees him and his brother (Jon Bernthal) using their innovative, illegal tactics to hunt down the killer of someone close to a Treasury agent (Cynthia Addai-Robinson).

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'Havoc'

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Release date: April 25 on Netflix

Starring: Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzmán, and Timothy Olyphant

Why it’s worth seeing: Writer/director Gareth Evans (The Raid, Apostle) is a favorite filmmaker among action fans who like their high-octane movies a little higher brow. His latest stars Tom Hardy—one of the genre’s very best—as a detective thrust into a corrupt criminal underworld as he searches for a politician’s kidnapped child.

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'Thunderbolts'

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Release date: May 2

Starring: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Edward Pierce, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Why it’s worth seeing: Thunderbolts will officially mark the end of Marvel’s Phase Five—and you can bet it’s going out with a bang. The star-studded ensemble plays a ragtag team of antiheroes on government-contracted missions, with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) among their leaders.

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'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning'

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Release date: May 23

Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, and Rolf Saxon

Why it’s worth seeing: Tom Cruise is back to save the movies! He’ll reprise his iconic, immortal role as Ethan Hunt in a direct follow-up to 2023’s Dead Reckoning, which saw him face off against an artificial intelligence program, “The Entity.” We can’t wait to see what death-defying stunts he does next.

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'Karate Kid: Legends'

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Release date: May 30

Starring: Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, Ben Wang, Joshua Jackson, and Shaunette Renée Wilson

Why it’s worth seeing: If you’re bummed Cobra Kai came to an end, don’t worry: More in the Karate Kid franchise is coming soon. It serves as a follow-up to the original films and the 2010 one starring the legendary Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith. Here, a young kung fu prodigy (Ben Wang) moves from Beijing to N.Y.C. after experiencing a family tragedy. “When a new friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competition,” according to the synopsis, “but his skills alone aren’t enough. Li’s kung fu teacher Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) enlists original Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) for help, and Li learns a new way to fight, merging their two styles into one for the ultimate martial arts showdown.”

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'From the World of John Wick: Ballerina'

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Release date: June 6

Starring: Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus, with Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves

Why it’s worth seeing: If you love the stylized John Wick films and wondered what they might look like with a female lead, look no further than Ballerina. This spinoff, set after the events of the third John Wick movie (yes, Keanu Reeves will make an appearance), is about a ballerina assassin (played by Ana De Armas) as she trains to seek revenge against her father’s death. Expect familiar faces and places, including the hotel-for-killers, the Continental Hotel in New York, to play into the plot.

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'How to Train Your Dragon'

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Release date: June 13

Starring: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz, and Murray McArthur, and Gerard Butler

Why it’s worth seeing: Get ready to return to the isle of Berk—this time more fantastical and life-like than ever. The hit animated DreamWorks series How to Train Your Dragon will be adapted into live-action (no real dragons, though, unfortunately) by Dean DeBlois, who helmed the original movies. New names will portray the Vikings/dragonriders, while Gerard Butler reprises his role as Stoick the Vast.

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'F1'

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Release date: June 27

Starring: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Javier Bardem, Sarah Niles, Lewis Hamilton, Kim Bodnia, and Samson Kayo

Why it’s worth seeing: After Formula One’s popularity has blown up over the past decade, it was inevitable that the sport would get the Hollywood treatment. This fictional action movie follows a former star driver (Brad Pitt), who quit racing due to an injury in the ‘90s, as he’s brought out of retirement to train a rookie (Damson Idris).

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'Heads of State'

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Release date: July 2 on Prime Video

Starring: John Cena, Idris Elba, Priyanka Chopra, Jack Quaid, Paddy Considine, Stephen Root, and Carla Gugino

Why it's worth seeing: This action-comedy looks like a blast and the best possible way to celebrate the 4th. John Cena and Idris Elba play the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the U.K., respectively, and they must team up when they discover they're being targeted in a global conspiracy. Expect an equal amount of laughs and explosions.

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'The Old Guard 2'

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Release date: July 2 on Netflix

Starring: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Matthias Schoenaerts, Vân Veronica Ngô, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Uma Thurman, and Henry Golding

Why it’s worth seeing: Not every Netflix action movie can be a banger, but 2020’s The Old Guard had the recipe to be one: Charlize Theron as the fierce lead, Gina Prince-Bythewood as the director, and a story about badass immortal mercenaries. It was, in fact, a hit, and thankfully, the streamer greenlit a sequel. Though Victoria Mahoney has taken over as director, the screenplay comes from Greg Rucka, who wrote the original comic book. Much of the cast returns, as well as some exciting new additions, as they face off with a new enemy while dealing with the return of a long-lost immortal.

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'Jurassic World Rebirth'

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Release date: July 2

Starring: Jonathan Bailey, Scarlett Johansson, and Mahershala Ali

Why it’s worth seeing: If you weren’t convinced there needed to be another Jurassic World movie, first-look photos of Jonathan Bailey in tiny glasses may change your mind. The next movie in the franchise is set five years after the events of 2022’s Dominion when the world is no longer hospitable to dinosaurs, leading the few still remaining to live in “isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived,” according to the official description. “The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”

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'Superman'

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Release date: July 11

Starring: David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, and Skyler Gisondo

Why it’s worth seeing: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s David Corenswet in his cute glasses and floppy hair, taking over from Henry Cavill as the next, charmer to play Clark Kent. James Gunn helms this D.C. blockbuster about the kryptonite super, which fans are already clamoring for. Rachel Brosnahan will star opposite Corenswet as Lois Lane, while Nicholas Hoult takes on supervillain Lex Luthor.

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'The Fantastic Four: First Steps'

Release date: July 25

Starring: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ralph Ineson, Julia Garner, Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne, and Sarah Niles

Why it’s worth seeing: While the plot of Marvel’s new take on The Fantastic Four has been kept secret, we can revel in the incredible casting. All of the internet’s boyfriends are there—Pedro Pascal will play Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic), Joseph Quinn will be Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch), and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will portray Ben Grimm (aka the Thing)—while forever scene-stealer and The Crown alum Vanessa Kirby is to be Sue Storm (aka the Invisible Woman).

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'The Naked Gun'

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Release date: August 1

Starring: Liam Neeson, Kevin Durand, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, Pamela Anderson, and Liza Koshy

Why it’s worth watching: Action-comedy fans, rejoice! Saturday Night Live’s The Lonely Island members have seemingly taken on childhood wish fulfillment-type projects over the years, and this reboot of The Naked Gun seems like it could be Akiva Schaffer’s latest. He directs Liam Neeson as Detective Frank Drebin, famously portrayed by deadpan comedic actor Leslie Nielsen, so you can bet he’ll be tapping into his action blockbuster leading man persona and his own humorous spin.

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'The Toxic Avenger'

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Release date: August 8

Starring: Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Kevin Bacon, Sarah Niles, Julia Davis, Julian Kostov, and Elijah Wood

Why it’s worth seeing: A reimagining of the cult-loved ‘80s movie of the same name, this dark action-comedy stars Peter Dinklage as a custodian who comes into contact with toxic waste and transforms into a mutant vigilante. According to the official synopsis, it intends to channel “the subversive gonzo energy of the original Toxic Avenger with a contemporary twist.”

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'Nobody 2'

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Release date: August 15

Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, RZA, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, Billy MacLellan, Gage Munroe, Paisley Cadorath, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Hanks, John Ortiz, and Sharon Stone

Why it’s worth seeing: Screenwriter Derek Kolstad, known for creating the John Wick franchise, found another cult-loved action hit in 2021’s Nobody. He penned this sequel, as well, which finds former-assassin-turned-suburbanite Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) pulled back into his old ways while on a family vacation to a small-town theme park.

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'Americana'

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Release date: August 22

Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, Eric Dane, Zahn McClarnon, and Simon Rex

Why it’s worth seeing: Americana is a crime drama about how various residents of a small South Dakota town intertwine when a rare artifact goes on the black market. Count us intrigued, especially to see what Western-wear inspiration we get from Sydney Sweeney and Halsey’s characters.

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'Caught Stealing'

Release date: August 29

Starring: Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Bad Bunny, and Carol Kane

Why it’s worth seeing: Darren Aronofsky directs this adaptation of Charlie Huston’s crime novel, for which he wrote the screenplay. Set in a gritty era of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the ‘90s, it follows a former baseball star (Austin Butler) who is lured into the criminal underground by his punk neighbor (Matt Smith). Bonus: It looks like there’s a really hot romantic subplot between Butler and Zoë Kravitz’s characters.

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'One Battle After Another'

Release date: September 26

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris, and Benicio del Toro

Why it’s worth seeing: Very little information is known about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new crime drama, but if a PTA movie with an all-star cast is coming to theaters, you see it. This is also his biggest-budgeted film thus far, so expect it to be a huge, very fun summertime blockbuster.

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'The Smashing Machine'

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Release date: October 3

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, and Oleksandr Usyk

Why it’s worth seeing: The Safdie Brothers got Adam Sandler Oscar buzz with 2019’s Uncut Gems, and now it looks like Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is turning to writer/director Benny Safdie for his turn at awards acclaim. The action/comedy star leads this sports drama about real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr, a UFC champion who struggled with substance abuse.

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'TRON: Ares'

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Release date: October 10

Starring: Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson, Sarah Desjardins, and Jeff Bridges

Why it’s worth seeing: It’s taken a while, but we’re finally getting the third movie in Disney’s TRON series, coming 15 years after 2010’s TRON: Legacy. The cast is stacked, Nine Inch Nails is set to do the score, and it’s set to follow “a highly sophisticated program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings,” per the synopsis.

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'A House of Dynamite'

Release date: October 24

Starring: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Jonah Hauer-King, Moses Ingram, Greta Lee, and Jason Clarke

Why it’s worth seeing: Kathryn Bigelow is back with another political thriller. The cast is stacked and they’ll likely keep us at the edge of our seats, as the logline reads, “When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.”

'The Running Man'

Release date: November 7

Starring: Glen Powell, Katy O'Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Jayme Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy, David Zayas, Sean Hayes, and Colman Domingo

Why it’s worth seeing: Stylish blockbuster filmmaker Edgar Wright and ultimate charmer Glen Powell? Sounds like movie magic! The two are teaming up for an adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name, previously made in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role. The dystopian film follows contestants on a reality show in which they’re chased by “Hunters” who are out for blood.

'Now You See Me: Now You Don't'

Release date: November 14

Starring: Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, and Rosamund Pike

Why it’s worth seeing: And the award for best sequel title goes to…Now You See Me: Now You Don't! All of your favorite illusionists are back, but this time around, the Four Horsemen are teaming back up and hiring some newcomers to put together the ultimate team as they set out to steal a queen diamond from a notorious underground crime family. Accordingly, the movie cast some of the most exciting up-and-comers in Hollywood: The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa, Barbie star Ariana Greenblatt, and indie favorite Justice Smith.

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'Avatar: Fire and Ash'

Release date: December 19

Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, David Thewlis, and Oona Chaplin

Why it’s worth seeing: Thankfully, after Avatar: The Way of Water became a box-office sensation when it was released in 2022, we won’t have to wait much longer for the next Avatar film. Though details are scarce on the latest installment in James Cameron’s epic sci-fi/fantasy series, it’s set to return to Pandora, and fans have speculated it will focus on the “Ash People.”

Sadie Bell
Senior Culture Editor

Sadie Bell is the Senior Culture Editor at Marie Claire, where she edits, writes, and helps to ideate stories across movies, TV, books, music, and theater, from interviews with talent to pop culture features and trend stories. She has a passion for uplifting rising stars, and a special interest in cult-classic movies, emerging arts scenes, and music. She has over nine years of experience covering pop culture and her byline has appeared in Billboard, Interview Magazine, NYLON, PEOPLE, Rolling Stone, Thrillist and other outlets.