2025 was a busy yr for a whole lot of people.
Our jobs or personal lives can sometimes hinder us from watching movies we’d otherwise line as much as see.
Streamers like Netflix, Paramount+ and Mubi allow Us to observe high-profile movies we can have missed the primary time around on the multiplex.
Watch With Us has compiled a temporary list of three great 2025 movies you’ll have ignored last yr: the motion comedy Caught Stealing, the airplane thriller Fight or Flight and the fragile Josh O’Connor drama The History of Sound.
I’m on a giant ‘90s nostalgia kick recently, so I eagerly accepted all of what Caught Stealing, Darren Aronofsky’s massively appealing latest movie set in Giuliani-era Recent York City, had to supply. Austin Butler plays Hank, a former baseball player-turned-bartender who cat-sits for his punk next-door neighbor, Russ (Matt Smith), while he travels to London. When two Russian mobsters come on the lookout for a mysterious key he knows nothing about, Hank has to search out it fast or lose an organ or two — and perhaps his life. Even when he does find it, will these mobsters let him or his girlfriend, Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz), walk away unharmed?
Caught Stealing was ignored by audiences when it was released last August, although everyone seems to be begging for more original movies. Oh, well, at the least you possibly can discover all of its subtle charms on streaming. Butler showcases just why Elvis and The Bikeriders made him a star, and Aronofsky regains a few of his filmmaking mojo after his dour 2022 drama, The Whale. Caught Stealing is one among those effortlessly entertaining movies that truly takes a whole lot of effort to get made and seen. Do yourself a favor — watch it and realize what we’re missing on the multiplexes.
Trap did OK on the box office in 2024, nevertheless it wasn’t a sufficiently big success to vault Josh Hartnett back into the key leagues again. That’s a pity, because the Oppenheimer actor has loads of untapped charisma left within the tank for a wide range of roles in big pictures. Even in a B-movie like Fight or Flight, Hartnett is mesmerizing as Lucas Reyes, a former Secret Service agent who is named back into motion by his former lover, Katherine (Katee Sackhoff).
She needs him to board a plane from Bangkok to San Francisco to locate Ghost, a mysterious hacker whom everyone wants dead. A few of Lucas’ fellow passengers are assassins in disguise, and he has to search out out who they’re and stop them before they kill their goal.
Fight or Flight sounds an awful lot like Bullet Train with Brad Pitt, but this motion movie is much less insufferable about its popular culture influences and more gritty and violent. The story is absurd, but Hartnett’s performance holds all of it together. Along with his dyed-blonde hair, five o’clock shadow and soulful eyes, he’s the guy you’d want in your side if a plane stuffed with killers desires to eliminate you.
After World War I, David (Josh O’Connor) invites his friend Lionel (Paul Mescal) to accompany him on a tour of America to record folk songs in isolated communities. During their journey, the 2 friends catch up, bond and step by step realize they’ve fallen in love with one another. But their romance is unimaginable to proceed for a wide range of reasons, and so they part ways.
That’s just a part of the story of The History of Sound, a beautifully made movie that’s kinda like a cross between Brokeback Mountain and Call Me by Your Name. It’s a love story that’s more sweet than bitter, with two sensitive lead performances from Mescal and O’Connor. While some may find it somewhat too slow, I enjoyed its leisurely pacing — it permits you to take in the wealthy atmosphere