Year in Review: Best movies and TV of 2025

2025 Movies: Superman / Hamnet / One Battle After Another / Sentimental Journey / Avatar: Fire and Ash / Zootopia 2

2025 Television: Wednesday / Resident Alien / Saturday Night Live / Andor / The Studio / The Pitt / Doctor Who

WELCOME to the What's On Tonight & Pop Culture thread for your best movies and TV show of 2025!

The year is done and TV has had an okay stream of offerings all year and movie theaters are still a thing. So in retrospective:

What are the best movies you've seen in 2025?

What are the best TV shows you've seen in 2025?

2025 Marvel Projects: Captain America: Brave New World / Daredevil: Born Again / Eyes of Wakanda / Fantastic Four: First Steps / Ironheart / Marvel Zombies / Thunderbolts* / Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

If you need the mid-year refresher, here's that thread.

And if you want some inspiration or a reminder on what has already been on pop culture minds:

Movies: Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, The AV Club, IndieWire, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Variety, Vulture

TV: This Redditor did a solid job compiling the best-of lists.

2025 Movies: Sinners / F1 / Kpop Demon Hunters / Paddington in Peru / Wicked: For Good / Weapons / Frankenstein

2025 Television: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert / Pluribus / Severance / Death by Lightning / The American Revolution / Deli Boys / Adolescence