In line with IMDb, the most well-liked movie of 2025 was James Gunn’s Superman.
How do they measure “hottest?” IMDb says their rating is “based mostly on the precise page-views and search exercise of 250M month-to-month followers across the globe. These lists mirror what audiences couldn’t cease watching, Googling, and speaking about this yr — from blockbuster returns to breakout performances that took Hollywood without warning.”
Right here is the complete record of IMDB’s ten hottest movies
The Most In style Motion pictures of 2025, In line with IMDb
These had been the most well-liked films on IMDb this yr.
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Apparently, and impressively, the highest 4 movies of the yr in response to IMDb — Superman, Weapons, Sinners, and One Battle After One other — had been all Warner Bros. releases. (WB additionally had the highest-grossing movie within the U.S. this yr, A Minecraft Film, though that didn’t crack IMDb’s record.) The record additionally consists of two Netflix titles, one Apple title, and one Marvel title — which suggests Thunderbolts generated extra curiosity in response to IMDb’s metrics, despite the fact that it was a little bit of box-office flop, than The Implausible 4: First Steps, which made far more cash.
IMDb says their record is what individuals couldn’t “cease watching, Googling, and speaking about this yr,” however it may bear mentioning that Google launched their very own record of the highest trending searching for movies final week and it was very totally different than this one — together with the truth that Google’s #1 movie, KPop Demon Hunters, doesn’t seem on IMDb’s record. Because the dad of two women, I can not fathom KPop Demon Hunters not rating among the many most “widespread” films of 2025. (It actually is in my house.)
IMDb additionally launched an inventory of the most well-liked reveals; HBO’s The White Lotus got here in #1, adopted by The Final of Us, Severance, Wednesday, Squid Sport, Dexter: Resurrection, Monster, Dept. Q, Andor, and Black Mirror.
IMDb’s hottest star of the yr was Superman’s Isabela Merced, adopted by Aimee Lou Wooden, Matthew Goode, Tom Cruise, Sydney Sweeney, Britt Decrease, Sydney Chandler, Walton Goggins, David Corenswet, and Vanessa Kirby.
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