As 2025 wraps up, we can easily say it was a truly incredible year for movies. 2025 was a year that gave us new films from filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson, Chloé Zhao, Jafar Panahi, Ryan Coogler, Wes Anderson, Celine Song, Yorgos Lanthimos, Joachim Trier, and many, many more. From great superhero blockbusters to award-worthy dramas, 2025 is going to be a year that's hard to beat.
That being said, it looks like 2026 is more than ready to rise to the challenge. While we clearly don't know all the films that will be coming over the next 12 months, and there are certainly going to be surprises to come, 2026 is already shaping up to be incredible. We're talking about a year that is going to bring us Avengers: Doomsday, Supergirl, and the return of Spider-Man. This is a year that is bringing us sequels to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Social Network — two films we didn't even know needed sequels. Tom Cruise is making a comedy. Steven Spielberg is returning to sci-fi. Hell, even