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Den of Thieves 2
LionsgateThe cult-favorite action heist frenzy from 2018 is back for round 2, but in a totally different (but still super fun) story led by returning players Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson, Jr. You’re going to have a lot of fun with this one.
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Presence
NEONDirector Steven Soderbergh’s resume has proven that he can do quite literally anything (he was behind Ocean’s Eleven, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Magic Mike, and Che, just to name a few), and he really puts that to the test with his spooky and inventive new film Presence. How inventive, you might ask? Well, the entire film is shot from the perspective of a ghost haunting a family in their new home—and it is both expertly-made and thrilling. But the characters are great too; Chris Sullivan is particularly strong as the family’s father, while Lucy Liu plays a vapid mother with expertise and Callina Liang is a revelation as the daughter whom the story essentially revolves around.
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Companion
Warner Bros.Companion is a fun thrill ride of a movie that comes from producer Zach Cregger (Barbarian) and is built on the genre strength of stars Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets, Heretic) and Jack Quaid (The Boys, Scream (2022)). One tip? Go into this one as blind as possible—there are thrills throughout that you will not see coming. Just know that it’s a fun, violent, wild ride.
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The Monkey
NEONThe Monkey marks an absolute horror dream team: director Oz Perkins (who last year did Longlegs), producer James Wan (who has done about a million great things, including Insidious, Saw, and Malignant), and based on a story by Stephen King. The Monkey, which stars Theo James as a pair of troubled twins, is more of a dark horror comedy than Longlegs, but don’t be mistaken: you can expect a lot of scares and a lot of violence to go along with quite a lot of laughs as well. One of the more visceral films of the year so far.
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Mickey 17
Warner Bros.Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Parasite is finally here, and its Mickey 17, the sci-fi dark comedy featuring Robert Pattinson as many, many, different doomed versions of a guy named Mickey. This film is more like Bong’s heightened worlds of Snowpiercer and Okja than the grounded mania of Parasite, but nonetheless it’s still an expertly-crafted movie with great performances (Pattinson is joined by Steven Yeun, Tilda Swinton, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo, among others) and lots of goofy violence. Fun fact: the movie is based on a novel called Mickey 7, but the title was changed because Bong wanted to kill Mickey 10 more times. A valuable member of the growing genre of Sad Man In Space movies.
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Black Bag
Focus FeaturesThe second Steven Soderbergh film of 2025 is Black Bag, which finds the 62-year-old master director returning to a zone he thrives in: the sleek, cool, fun, thriller with an absolutely stacked cast. And surprise surprise: the movie is awesome, an early contender for the year’s best and most fun film. Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett play a pair of high-level intelligence agents who find themselves wondering if they can trust each other, their colleagues and friends, or the agencies they work for in the midst of some major international danger. The rest of the cast includes Pierce Brosnan, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Industry star Marisa Abela, and more. If you were waiting for a follow-up to Out of Sight or the Ocean’s trilogy that felt delightfully set in the modern world of espionage, this is your movie. And as a bonus, everyone is dressed unbelievably well—I don’t even wear glasses, but after the movie I was searching for how to wear them exactly the way Fassbender does.
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Novocaine
ParamountThe second Jack Quaid film of our list finds the young star as a guy with a condition where he can’t feel pain on an adventure to save the potential love of his life. Novocaine is filled with bouncing, frenetic action, and Quaid’s optimistic energy and charisma seem make him a great fit for the Lethal Weapon, ’80s-esque movie that this is going for. It’s fun!
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A Working Man
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Warfare
A24Alex Garland re-teams with his Civil War military consultant Ray Mendoza for the star-studded Warfare, which they co-directed together. The movie—based on the true story of a 2006 Iraq mission gone awry—stars an array of today’s upcoming actors, including Will Poulter, Joseph Quinn, Charles Melton, and Kit Connor. The movie is a down-the-middle depiction of that mission one awry; It is intense, visceral, and will have you in the shoes of these soldiers experiencing the true and utter hell of battle. It’s one of the best modern war movies you’ll see.
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Drop
UniversalOne of the most fun horror directors in the last decade or so is Christopher Landon, who was behind the Happy Death Day films and Freaky. Now, he’s back for Drop, an escape thriller that stars The White Lotus star Meghann Fahy and 1923’s Brendan Sklenar. And folks, Drop is good! It’s not reinventing the wheel, but this movie—about a woman on her first date in a long time after a traumatic life event who receives increasingly threatening drop notifications—is full of tension, dread, and even a little humor. It’s well made and will keep your attention, and that’s all you could really want in a movie like that. It’s also filled to the brim with thrills, so that’s even better.
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The Shrouds
Janus FilmsI had the chance to see David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds at NYFF last year and it’s a super interesting late career revelation from one of the great filmmakers of the last 40 years. Cronenberg (who counts The Fly, Crash, and countless other classics to his name) meditates on death, capitalism, and technology in The Shrouds, which is an erotic thriller, a romance, and a conspiracy thriller all in one. Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and Guy Pearce are among those leading the cast.
Screened at NYFF 2024.
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Sinners
Warner Bros.One of the year’s most exciting and intriguing blockbusters is Sinners, an original period-setting horror adventure film by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed, Fruitvale Station) that stars Michael B. Jordan as a pair of twins. Vampires are involved! A little wild that Ryan Coogler got to Vampires with Warner Bros. before his old friends at Marvel Studios did with Blade, but what are you going to do? This movie, to put things quite bluntly, rules—it’s a talented director getting his vision to the screen in a way that we don’t see often. And he pulls it off. MBJ is joined in the cast by Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo, and Jack O’Connell, among many others.
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The Accountant 2
Amazon MGM StudiosBen Affleck is back for The Accountant 2. If you know you know, folks. The first movie made over $150 million at the box office, and is a lot of fun—so if you were into that one, here’s your treat. Affleck and Jon Bernthal reteam for more very fun, very silly, very outrageous and high-concept action. It’s very good stuff.
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Havoc
NetflixHavoc has been on the shelf for a little while—it was mostly filmed back in 2021—and for a while we were worried it might be a mess. But now that it’s finally made its way to Netflix, we’re thrilled to say that it’s exactly what a badass action movie starring Tom Hardy and directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid movies) should be: badass and filled with kinetic, nonstop action and a wild plot.
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Thunderbolts*
Marvel StudiosGoing to be real: Thunderbolts* is not only the best MCU movie we’ve gotten in years (the only competition since Avengers: Endgame would be Spider-Man: No Way Home and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), but a genuinely great movie filled with a strong, consistent theme, fantastic performances, and occasionally striking visuals. The team’s origin isn’t quite the same as the Marvel Comics team of the same name, but seeing Yelena (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Bucky (Sebastian Stan), and Bob (Lewis Pullman) come together on the big screen is a fun experience. And the score by Son Lux (who also worked on Everything Everywhere All At Once) is truly fantastic. Thunderbolts* also manages to have it both ways: The end of the movie (and the credits scenes) genuinely set up major excitement for the Marvel films coming soon, and it also stands alone as a movie for fans who don’t want to or need to do additional homework. It’s a good one, folks.
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Friendship (Now playing on limited screens, wide on 5/23)
A24A twisted, eccentric, weird friendship between Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson? It’s one of the best elevator pitches you’ll ever hear, and it’s also a fantastic movie in and of itself. Imagine 1996’s The Cable Guy (directed by Ben Stiller and starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick) but in one of Tim Robinson’s weird, weird, slightly off-kilter absurd worlds. The film debuted at TIFF last year to raves, and I’m pleased to report that the movie lives up to the hype—I haven’t laughed this much at a movie in theaters in many years.
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Final Destination: Bloodlines
Eric MilnerMission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (5/23)
ParamountThe most bittersweet movie event of 2025 will be Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. Will this really be the final Mission: Impossible film? Will Ethan Hunt survive? “It’s just going to be going to amazing,” cast member Shea Whigham, who returns from Dead Reckoning, told Men’s Health in a recent interview. We know he’s going to be right.
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The Phoenician Scheme (5/30)
Focus FeaturesAnother Wes Anderson film! This espionage film will feature many of his star-studded collaborators (basically a theater troupe in their own right, at this point); Michael Cera and Benicio del Toro will likely be the key figures here, as they were among the very first cast.
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (6/6)
LionsgateThe Ballerina spinoff of the John Wick series—starring Ana de Armas and set between the third and fourth Wick movies—has been in the works for quite a while, at one point even being delayed for a full year (rumored to be due to producer/director Chad Stahelski wanting to totally revamp the movie’s action scenes). Regardless of all that, how can you not be excited? De Armas’s similar role in No Time To Die was the best part of the movie, and Ballerina counts Keanu Reeves, as Wick himself, as part of the cast. You’d have to be mad to not at least want to check it out.
Evan is the culture editor for Men’s Health, with bylines in The New York Times, MTV News, Brooklyn Magazine, and VICE. He loves weird movies, watches too much TV, and listens to music more often than he doesn’t.
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