Nuremberg is a 2025 historical drama written and directed by James Vanderbilt, adapted from Jack El-Hai's nonfiction book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. Released by Sony Pictures Classics, it dramatizes the months surrounding the first Nuremberg trial, when the surviving leaders of the Third Reich were brought before an international tribunal, and centers on the unsettling relationship that formed between a captive Nazi and the American doctor assigned to gauge his sanity.
Rami Malek plays Douglas Kelley, the U.S. Army psychiatrist tasked with evaluating the imprisoned Nazi high command, while Russell Crowe delivers a commanding turn as Hermann Göring, the charismatic and manipulative Reichsmarschall who becomes both his subject and his adversary. Michael Shannon plays Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the chief American prosecutor determined to build a lasting framework of international law, with Richard E. Grant, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, and Colin Hanks filling out the ensemble.
Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival to one of its longest standing ovations, the film earned praise for Crowe's magnetic, chilling performance and for its sober reckoning with how ordinary-seeming men rationalized atrocity. A courtroom drama and a psychological duel in equal measure, it grossed more than $70 million worldwide. Nuremberg is streaming on Netflix.
The Housemaid is a 2025 psychological thriller directed by Paul Feig and adapted from Freida McFadden's blockbuster 2022 novel, with a screenplay by Rebecca Sonnenshine. Released by Lionsgate, it became one of the season's biggest commercial success stories, translating the book's runaway, twist-driven popularity into a glossy, addictive big-screen thriller.
Sydney Sweeney stars as Millie, a young woman with a hidden past who takes a live-in position with a wealthy couple, only to discover that the household is built on secrets and lies. Amanda Seyfried plays Nina Winchester, the volatile woman of the house, with Brandon Sklenar as her husband Andrew and Michele Morrone in the ensemble, as the story spirals into a dangerous game of manipulation, class resentment and shifting power.
Made for a modest budget of around $35 million, the film grossed more than $300 million worldwide, and its cliffhanger ending set the stage for a planned sequel drawn from McFadden's follow-up novel. A sleek, pulpy crowd-pleaser, it leaned into its soapy reversals and the chemistry of its two leads. It is streaming on Prime Video.
Wuthering Heights is a 2026 gothic romance written and directed by Emerald Fennell, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, working from Emily Brontë's 1847 novel. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in late January 2026 before opening wide on Valentine's Day weekend, positioned as a lush, provocative reinvention of one of English literature's most enduring tragedies.
Margot Robbie stars as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, the foundling whose all-consuming bond with Cathy curdles into obsession and revenge across the windswept Yorkshire moors. Hong Chau appears as the housekeeper Nelly Dean, with Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton and Alison Oliver as Isabella, as class, jealousy and thwarted desire tear two families apart over a generation.
Fennell shoots the material with the heightened, sensual style that has become her signature, splitting critics down the middle even as audiences turned out: the film grossed more than $240 million worldwide against an $80 million budget. Reviews were sharply divided over how its explicit, contemporary sensibility served Brontë's story, but few disputed its visual ambition. It is streaming on HBO Max.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is the third outing for Daniel Craig's genteel Southern sleuth Benoit Blanc, once again written and directed by Rian Johnson. After the sun-drenched glamour of Glass Onion, Johnson steers the franchise into darker, gothic territory, trading tropical excess for the shadows and stained glass of a small-town Catholic parish in upstate New York.
When a charismatic monsignor, played by Josh Brolin, is murdered during a Good Friday service, Blanc is drawn into a genuinely mysterious case in which a young, reform-minded priest, Father Jud Duplenticy, played by Josh O'Connor, becomes the prime suspect. The stacked ensemble includes Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack and Thomas Haden Church, each a potential suspect in a tightly wound whodunit preoccupied with faith and doubt.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025 and enjoyed a theatrical run before landing on Netflix in December, where it shot to the top of the charts. Reviews were strongly positive, with critics singling out Josh O'Connor's soulful performance and Johnson's willingness to deepen the series' emotional stakes. It streams on Netflix.
The Amateur is a globe-spanning espionage thriller directed by James Hawes and adapted from Robert Littell's 1981 novel, previously filmed the same year it was published. Rami Malek headlines as Charlie Heller, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder and cryptographer far more comfortable behind a computer than in the field. Produced by 20th Century Studios, the film reframes the revenge-thriller template around an unconventional hero whose weapon is his intellect rather than his fists.
When Charlie's wife Sarah, played by Rachel Brosnahan, is killed in a terrorist attack in London and his superiors refuse to act, he blackmails the agency into training him and sets out to hunt the perpetrators himself. His pursuit carries him across Paris, Madrid, Istanbul and beyond, improvising lethal, elaborately engineered traps as he goes. Laurence Fishburne, Caitriona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg and Holt McCallany fill out the ensemble.
Released theatrically in April 2025, The Amateur earned a solid worldwide gross and drew reviews that praised Malek as a compellingly atypical action lead even as some found the plot conventional. It found a wider audience on streaming, arriving on Hulu in the United States, where its cerebral spin on the spy genre played well with home viewers. It streams on Hulu.
A Working Man is a hard-hitting action thriller that reunited Jason Statham with director David Ayer immediately after their 2024 hit The Beekeeper. Produced by Amazon MGM Studios and adapted from Chuck Dixon's novel Levon's Trade, the film pairs Ayer's grimy, street-level style with a screenplay co-written by Sylvester Stallone, giving Statham one of his most purposeful vehicles in years.
Statham plays Levon Cade, a former Royal Marine commando who has traded soldiering for an ordinary life as a Chicago construction foreman and devoted father. When the teenage daughter of his boss, played by Michael Pena, is abducted by human traffickers tied to the Russian mafia, Levon is pulled back into a world of violence he thought he had left behind, cutting a brutal path through the criminal underworld to bring her home. David Harbour, Jason Flemyng, Merab Ninidze and Arianna Rivas round out the cast.
Released in March 2025, A Working Man opened at the top of the North American box office and went on to gross roughly ninety million dollars worldwide against a modest budget, another dependable hit in Statham's long run of blue-collar action pictures. Critics judged it an efficient, no-frills genre exercise, and it became a sizable streaming success after arriving on Prime Video, where audiences kept it high on the charts. It streams on Prime Video.
Jay Kelly is a bittersweet comedy-drama directed by Noah Baumbach and co-written with Emily Mortimer, produced and distributed by Netflix. A reflective portrait of fame, family, and legacy, it gives George Clooney one of his most self-aware roles as a beloved movie star confronting the life he built and the people he left behind.
Clooney plays the title character, a celebrated actor who, trailing his estranged daughter, embarks on an impromptu journey across Europe that becomes a reckoning with his regrets. Adam Sandler delivers acclaimed, understated work as Jay's devoted manager Ron, with Laura Dern as his publicist and Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, and Grace Edwards rounding out the ensemble. The trip builds toward a career-tribute ceremony in Tuscany that forces Jay to weigh the cost of a life spent performing.
Premiering in competition at the Venice Film Festival before a limited theatrical run and its Netflix debut, Jay Kelly drew strong reviews for Clooney's disarming vulnerability and Sandler's expanded dramatic range, and it became a fixture of awards-season conversation, earning Golden Globe nominations for both leads. It is a warm, melancholy meditation on stardom from one of American cinema's most incisive chroniclers of family. It streams on Netflix.
Death of a Unicorn is a horror-comedy written and directed by Alex Scharfman in his feature debut, released by A24. Blending creature-feature thrills with pointed satire of the ultra-wealthy, the film pairs Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega as a father and daughter whose weekend at a billionaire's remote estate goes catastrophically wrong.
Rudd plays Elliot Kintner, a widowed lawyer angling for a promotion, and Ortega is his skeptical teenage daughter Ridley; en route to the estate of Elliot's dying pharmaceutical-magnate boss, they accidentally strike and kill a unicorn. When the family discovers the creature's blood holds miraculous healing powers, greed takes over, and the mythical animal's vengeful kin come looking for their young. Richard E. Grant, Téa Leoni, and Will Poulter co-star as the grasping Leopold clan whose exploitation of the discovery unleashes bloody chaos.
Premiering at South by Southwest in March 2025, Death of a Unicorn earned mixed reviews, with critics praising the warm, funny chemistry between Rudd and Ortega while finding its eat-the-rich satire uneven. Though a modest performer at the box office, the film found a wider audience on streaming and stands as a distinctive, gory swing from a first-time director. It streams on HBO Max.
Him is a sports-horror thriller directed by Justin Tipping and produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions for Universal Pictures. Working from a script by Skip Bronkie, Zack Akers, and Tipping, the film fuses the visceral world of professional football with the elevated, unsettling style that has become Monkeypaw's signature, using the cult of athletic greatness as a stage for genuine dread.
Marlon Wayans stars in a chilling dramatic turn as Isaiah White, a legendary aging quarterback who invites a rising young star, Cameron "Cam" Cade (Tyriq Withers), to train at his isolated desert compound. What begins as a once-in-a-lifetime mentorship curdles into a nightmare of escalating, ritualistic ordeals, with Julia Fox as Isaiah's influencer wife Elsie and Tim Heidecker among the supporting cast. As Cam pushes his body and mind past every limit, the true, supernatural price of becoming the "GOAT" comes into terrifying focus.
Released in September 2025, Him drew a sharply divided response, opening strongly at the box office on the strength of Wayans's committed performance and its bold visual style even as critics split over its tonal swings and dense mythology. Made for a modest budget, it stood out as one of the year's most ambitious studio horror swings, extending Monkeypaw's project of turning genre filmmaking into cultural critique. It streams on Peacock.
Good Fortune is a fantasy comedy that marks the feature directorial debut of Aziz Ansari, who also writes and co-stars. Keanu Reeves plays Gabriel, a well-meaning but low-ranking guardian angel who decides to intervene in the life of Arj (Ansari), a broke gig worker convinced that money would fix everything. To teach him a lesson, Gabriel magically swaps Arj's life with that of a wealthy, carefree venture capitalist (Seth Rogen) — a plan that goes badly, and hilariously, wrong.
When his celestial gambit backfires, Gabriel is stripped of his wings and left stranded on Earth, forcing the mismatched trio to sort out the mess together. The cast, rounded out by Keke Palmer and Sandra Oh, lets Ansari fold his observational comedy about money, class, and modern precarity into a warmhearted supernatural premise. Reeves, playing gloriously against type as a gentle, slightly clueless angel, gives the film its most unexpected comic engine.
Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival before its October 2025 theatrical release from Lionsgate, Good Fortune earned generally favorable reviews and a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising Reeves's comic timing and the film's good-natured social conscience. It streams on Starz.
Marty Supreme is a sports comedy-drama directed by Josh Safdie — his first feature without brother Benny Safdie — and co-written with Ronald Bronstein. Timothée Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a brash, obsessive young table-tennis player in 1950s New York who is convinced he is destined for greatness and will do almost anything to prove it. The film is loosely inspired by the memoir of real-life ping-pong hustler and showman Marty Reisman, reimagining his world of smoky clubs, side bets, and outsized ambition.
Chalamet is surrounded by an eclectic ensemble that includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, musician Tyler, the Creator, filmmaker Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher, giving the film the jittery, lived-in texture that defines Safdie's work. As Marty chases tournaments, money, and reinvention, the movie channels the propulsive energy and anxious comedy of the Safdies' earlier Uncut Gems while making room for a strange, romantic streak all its own.
Released by A24 on Christmas Day 2025 after a premiere at the New York Film Festival, Marty Supreme became both a commercial and critical hit, grossing nearly $200 million worldwide and earning a 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Chalamet's live-wire performance won him Golden Globe and Critics' Choice awards and anchored a haul of nine Academy Award nominations. It streams on HBO Max.
