The best new films of 2025, picked by our critics

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing and Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic - Jay Maidment

Tom Cruise’s frankly deranged stunt habit ensured that Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning got the summer blockbuster season off to a, quite literal, flying start. Now, the thrilling Jurassic World Rebirth is giving it a run for its money at the box office, followed (faster than a speeding bullet!) by a revamped Superman, starring David Corenswet as a winsome, well-meaning Man of Steel.

Further ahead, there’s Hamnet, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel, and directed by Chloé Zhao, who won an Oscar for Nomadland. Here, our film critics offer their thoughts on all of these and the rest of the year’s most promising new cinema releases.

If you want a night in, and are looking for something to stream at home, read on for 2025’s best films so far. Or you can skip to the year’s best releases:

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The best films of 2025 so far

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Considering this is the fourth big-screen adaptation of Marvel’s Fantastic Four comics to date – or fifth, if you count the unreleased 1994 Roger Corman version – First Steps turns out to be a surprisingly fitting subtitle. Because after spending the best part of a decade since Iron Man 3 blundering into the furniture, Marvel has finally learned how to put one foot in front of the other again – and in doing so, arrived at the studio’s funniest, most exciting, moving and complete film in more than 10 years. Pedro Pascal’s elastic-limbed Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby’s Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s rock-skinned Thing and Joseph Quinn’s fiery Human Torch make a refreshingly human quartet of heroes

Where to watch: in cinemas

  • Read the full review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Superman

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Forget the green crystals, mad alien generals and perpetually aggrieved hairless technology moguls. Superman’s deadliest enemy in 2025 is superhero fatigue – and this snappily vivacious reboot from The Guardians of the Galaxy director, James Gunn, is Hollywood’s best hope of defeating it. Gunn’s version of the Man of Steel, embodied by David Corenswet, is a winsome, well-meaning lug, while Nicholas Hoult brings steely-eyed charisma to arms tycoon Lex Luthor.

Where to watch: in cinemas now

  • Read the full review of Superman

Jurassic World Rebirth

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Jurassic World Rebirth is a giddy resurrection for a franchise many had feared extinct. The pleasure centres that Steven Spielberg first activated in 1993 are tickled and teased again with winking finesse by a new director, Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One), who understands them down to the ground. And the deeply charismatic cast (including Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey) supply the ingredient missing from the franchise for 30-odd years – people to root for!

Where to watch: in cinemas

  • Read the full review of Jurassic World Rebirth

M3GAN 2.0

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Ignore (for the second time) the ugly title – this uproarious (if not especially scary) sequel to 2023’s M3GAN leans into its silliness with infectious glee. The premise is much the same: an intelligent doll turns evil – this time, though, M3GAN is humanity’s saviour as she takes on another malevolent AI. Yes, it’s absurd, but this campy horror also feels refreshingly human. 

Where to watch: in cinemas

  • Read the full review of M3GAN 2.0

F1: The Movie

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Is this summer’s officially branded Formula One film the new Top Gun: Maverick? It’s certainly straining every sinew to make you think as much. Unlike the 2022 Tom Cruise blockbuster, F1 sits a few hundred feet below the pinnacle of modern blockbuster showmanship: it’s rousing, sleek entertainment rather than transcendent pop cinema – even though in pure sales-pitch terms, a Venn diagram of the two would resemble a hula hoop. In Brad Pitt, it has the 1980s-minted movie star lead playing a wayward yet gifted (and ruggedly handsome) veteran who’s pressed back into service to show the youngsters how it’s done. 

Where to watch: in cinemas

  • Read the full review of F1: The Movie

28 Years Later

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Few places in Britain scream zombie apocalypse less than the Northumbrian coast, which makes it the perfect setting for Danny Boyle’s new film. Starring Jodie Comer and Ralphie Fiennes, this transfixingly nasty, shrewdly postponed sequel to 2002’s 28 Days Later finds a knot of survivors ensconced on the island of Lindisfarne where the otherwise endemic Rage virus has yet to reach. It’s a terrifying vision of Britain turning in on itself.

Where to watch: in cinemas

  • Read the full review of 28 Years Later

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Even by the series’ own now well-established standards, this widely presumed last entry in Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise is an awe-inspiringly bananas piece of work. Over the course of its near-three-hour run time, Ethan Hunt essentially becomes Secret Agent Jesus: there is a descent into the underworld, a death and resurrection, even a battle of wills in the desert with Satan himself. It’s dazzlingly ambitious and one of the most exactingly crafted studio projects of our time.

Where to watch: in cinemas

  • Read the full review of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Sinners

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

At first, Ryan Coogler’s latest resembles a handsome period drama. Set in the Mississippi Deep South, twin mobsters Smoke and Stack (both played by Coogler’s regular leading man Michael B Jordan) are opening a juke joint. And then the stakes are abruptly raised. It’s not quite a spoiler to say that what comes next involves Riverdancing vampires and outrageous blood sprays. As the craziness climbs, Coogler keeps finding ways to squeeze startlingly original ideas into his Southern Gothic format.

Where to watch: available to rent or buy on Prime Video, Sky Store and Apple TV

  • Read the full review of Sinners

Warfare

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

In a sense this is Alex Garland’s simplest film; in another, it’s his most experimental. Working (and sharing top-line credits) with the military advisor and ex-Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, the two men have reconstructed an incident from Mendoza’s years in active service: the seizure, siege and evacuation of an apartment block in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in 2006. The result feels like the most honest depiction of modern warfare ever made.

Where to watch: streaming on Prime Video

  • Read the full review of Warfare

Mickey 17

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

This enjoyably mad sci-fi confection is the latest project from South Korea’s Bong Joon-ho, whose triumph at the Oscars five years ago with Parasite resulted in Warner Bros giving him a near-blank cheque and telling him to whip up something comparable on a grander canvas. Robert Pattinson gets a welcome chance to flex his hangdog comic muscles as the luckless Mickey, a blue-collar worker who enlists for a better life as a re-clone-able worker on a treacherous interstellar voyage.

Where to watch: available to rent or buy on Prime Video, Sky Store and Apple TV

  • Read the full review of Mickey 17

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Every young adult in the late 1990s and early 2000s either modelled their life on Bridget Jones or had about 10 female friends who did. In this terrifically funny and well-judged part four – by some distance the best of the bunch – our heroine is now in her 50s, widowed and waist-deep in motherhood. The differences (and likenesses) between the Bridget we knew and the Bridget she’s become are expertly mined for big laughs and even bigger emotional skewerings.

Where to watch: available to rent or buy on Prime Video, Sky Store and Apple TV

  • Read the full review of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

A Complete Unknown

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

James Mangold’s film about Bob Dylan’s rise to stardom is a dream – as accessible to newcomers as it is rewarding for die-hards, with a riveting central performance, a keen eye for immersive detail, and a gorgeously tactile, five-o-clock-shadow-rough surface. Timothée Chalamet is terrific, miraculously embodying the young Dylan’s once-in-a-generation coolness, genius and truculence.

Where to watch: streaming on Disney+

  • Read the full review of A Complete Unknown

Maria

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Following Jackie and Spencer, director Pablo Larraín completes his women-on-the-edge trilogy with this account of the final days of Maria Callas. In the title role, Angelina Jolie gives her finest performance in at least 15 years. Far from requiring her to shrug off her existing glamorous image, the film doubles down on it, primps and zhuzhes it, and cranks it up to regal extremes. You’d want to send this woman out to greet alien visitors. 

Where to watch: available to rent or buy on Prime Video, Sky Store and Apple TV

  • Read the full review of Maria

The Brutalist

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

A tremendous Adrien Brody deservedly won an Oscar for his role in Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour state-of-the-US historical epic. It follows a fictional architect, Brody’s László Tóth, who flees Holocaust-torn Europe for America, where he embarks on the kind of grand design that would make Kevin McCloud wake up with a shriek. Crackling with a mad, visionary energy, this towering feature is about the human drive to pull meaning out of tragedy and horror.

Where to watch: available to rent or buy on Prime Video, Sky Store and Apple TV

  • Read the full review of The Brutalist

The rest of the year

August

Freakier Friday

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

The Lindsay Lohan comeback will be complete if this Disney “legacy sequel” pans out even averagely well. Just 17 when the 2003 Freaky Friday made her a teen idol, she’s now 38, and playing a mother herself – so we’ll get three generations embroiled somehow in body-swapping shenanigans. Recent Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis is getting frisky yet again, this time as a teenager trapped in a grandma’s skin.

In cinemas from Aug 8

Lurker

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Hype has been building around this creepy imbalance-of-fame drama since Sundance. It stars Canadian up-and-comer Théodore Pellerin as a desperate wannabe who infiltrates the inner circle of a rising pop star (Saltburn’s Archie Madekwe). Gen Z obsessions and the corrosive influence of social media are in this film’s sights, with writer-director Alex Russell (whose credits include The Bear and Beef) pegged as a name to watch.

In cinemas from Aug 22

September

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

No, it won’t be the same without the late Maggie Smith’s waspish dowager countess. (Thank goodness the previous film gave her the send-off she deserved.) But the rest of the Crawley clan and their associates are reconvening for a third and final theatrical feature, written again by series creator Julian Fellowes.

Paul Giamatti returns as the eyebrow-arching playboy Harold Levison from the fourth season’s Christmas special, while Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola and Simon Russell Beale are among the starry additions to the troupe.

In cinemas from Sep 12

One Battle After Another

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Any new Paul Thomas Anderson film has cinephiles all ears, but this one is pretty unique for budgetary reasons: it’s thought to have cost some $140m, making it easily PTA’s priciest venture to date. Leonardo DiCaprio will have eaten up a healthy chunk of that, but he also makes this California-set crime drama a likely hit. DiCaprio stars as an ex-revolutionary who reunites with his former comrades when one of their daughters goes missing. It’s thought to have been loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, a political satire set in the Reagan era.

In cinemas from Sept 26

October

Tron: Ares

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

In the earlier Tron films, human heroes travelled into the digital world; this time the premise is flipped, with Jared Leto as a “programme” called Ares sent into the real world. The chaos-packed teaser trailer suggests something like a Tron disaster movie, with a possibly limited cameo from original star Jeff Bridges. Rather than a score by Daft Punk, who revved up the 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy, we’ll get Nine Inch Nails blasting us with synthesised doom.

In cinemas from Oct 10

November

Bugonia

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Yorgos Lanthimos shows no sign of slowing down or of switching muses: Emma Stone stars in what will be her fourth Lanthimos picture in a row, and Jesse Plemons joins her once again. It’s a remake of a goofy 2003 Korean film called Save the Green Planet!, which follows the chaotic kidnapping of a Big Pharma CEO (Stone) by two conspiracy theorists who are convinced she’s an alien. Because Lanthimos rarely does what we expect, it was shot around High Wycombe.

In cinemas from Nov 7

The Running Man

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Edgar Wright has gone back to the eponymous novel – originally published under Stephen King’s pseudonym, “Richard Bachman” – so he claims this isn’t technically a remake of the 1987 Arnie action-thriller. The book, it’s true, is very different. In any form, though, it’s about a deadly gameshow in which the contestants are hunted down. Glen Powell stars, with Josh Brolin as smarmy host Damon Killian, alongside Lee Pace, Michael Cera and Katy O’Brian.

In cinemas from Nov 7

Wicked: For Good

The best films of 2025 so far, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, M3GAN 2.0, F1: The Movie, 28 Years Later, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mickey 17, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, The rest of the year, Freakier Friday, September, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, November, The Running Man, Wicked: For Good, December, Avatar: Fire and Ash

With Cynthia Erivo’s heart-rending yodel still ringing in our ears from the first film’s climax, it’s almost time to find out what happens next in Universal’s two-part adaptation of the Wizard-of-Oz-prequel Broadway smash. Part Two’s hit-in-waiting status is already assured thanks to the extraordinary success of the initial instalment. Reviews for the first were mixed – in these pages, anyway – but it’s hard to complain about an old-fashioned studio musical grabbing the zeitgeist like this.

In cinemas from Nov 21

Hamnet

Awards hopes will be rife for this adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s devastating bestseller, about the sudden death of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet and the impact of this loss on the family. Paul Mescal is the Bard, Jessie Buckley his wife Agnes, and Emily Watson his mother Mary. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) co-wrote the script with O’Farrell, and directs what ought to be a ten-hankie wipeout.

In cinemas from Nov 27

December

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Forest? Hundred-percented. Ocean? Completed it, mate. The third level – sorry, instalment – of James Cameron’s trippy sci-fi series will shepherd audiences into Pandora’s volcanic mountain ranges for an eco-adventure with the planet’s hardy Ash clan. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and their interchangeable offspring return, while David Thewlis is among the newcomers as the crater-dwelling chieftain Peylak. The CG is bound to impress, but ideally this time the plot might be able to look past it.

In cinemas from Dec 19

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