SPOTLIGHT: The Best Films of Summer 2025
Clockwise from top left: "Sorry, Baby," "Weapons," "F1," "Superman," and "Highest 2 Lowest"

SPOTLIGHT: The Best Films of Summer 2025

There weren’t many of them given the glut of lame retreads and reboots, but here are five that fought the formula and made themselves heard and felt.

By Peter Travers

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With the fall movie season ahead, summer is in the rearview mirror, a good time to look back and find the pick of the litter. It was tough going. Not because there were too many goodies to choose from, but because there were too few. Hollywood went back to the well distressingly often, with disappointing results.