The 15 Best Movie Posters of 2025

It’s become an annual tradition at The Reveal to round up the year’s best movie posters, though the winnowing process can feel like grim business at times. Beyond providing reminders of already-forgotten films—apparently Pixar put out something called Elio this year?—it reinforces the impression that a lot of movie posters look like, well, a lot of other movie posters. Case in point: posters for Karate Kid Legends. (That was a movie this year, remember?) Beyond the full bunch-of-faces primary poster, Paramount issued posters for seemingly every character in the film. Mig-Na Wen as Dr. Fong? She got one. Wyatt Oleff as Alan? He got one too! So did 21 (!) different characters appearing in Smurfs.

But we’re not here to lament dull trends in poster design. We’re here to celebrate the best posters produced in 2025, or at least 15 I like, presented in no particular order. The usual caveat: I am not a designer. I’m just someone who likes posters. (For a designer's perspective, be sure to read Adrian Curry's column's at MUBI.) You can peruse the year in posters at the IMP Awards site, the source for all these images. Whenever possible, I’ve also attempted to credit the posters’ designers.

Sinners
I should probably state my prejudices up top: I'm a sucker for a good minimalist design, like this Sinners poster by Chris Garofalo. Ryan Coogler and the Sinners team cleverly played coy about what the movie was even about ahead of its release, but images like this—which nests a silhouette (presumably of protagonist Sammie Moore, played by Miles Caton) standing beneath across inside a guitar that's itself inside a melting candle—helped create a lot of intrigue. It arguably revealed everything anyone needed to know going into the movie. Also good (and even sparer): a poster that makes literal the film's "Dance With the Devil" tagline.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
There is no image that better represents Mary Bronstein's second directorial effort than an uncomfortably close look at star Rose Byrne's face frozen in an expression somewhere between rage, disbelief, and placid surrender. It's a still image, but one that hints at a film that plays like a feature-length panic attack. (Design by P+A.)

Die My Love
Much of the above description could be applied to this poster for Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love, another story of a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown (or maybe over the edge). Much of the film hinges on star Jennifer Lawrence's ability to play a dozen conflicting emotions at once, a skill suggested by this ambiguous single frame and the fuzzy, opaque (and eerie) font set atop it.