As 2025 comes to a close, the biggest movies of the year are now available to stream from home — quite literally. Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” is available on Disney+ after earning more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office, while Warner Bros.’ “A Minecraft Movie” is streaming on HBO Max and Prime Video after its $958 million box office run. China’s animated sensation “Ne Zha 2” is ready to watch on HBO Max after earning $2.1 billion worldwide, which makes it the top grosser of 2025. These three movies are the biggest of 2025 along with “Zootopia 2” and “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” both of which are in theaters and won’t arrive on Disney+ until 2026.
The best movies of the year are also now available to stream. Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” topped Variety’s best films of 2025 list and is now available on HBO Max. Several other critical favorites and Oscar contenders are also ready for home viewing, from “Bugonia” (Peacock) to “Sorry Baby” (HBO Max), “Frankenstein” (Netflix), “Sinners” (HBO Max), “Weapons” (HBO Max) and more.
Check out a full rundown below of the best and/or biggest movies of 2025 now available to stream.
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28 Years Later (Netflix)
Image Credit: ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s “28 Years Later” was named the fifth best movie of 2025 by Variety film critic Peter Debruge: “The reason this movie rocked me — emotionally, I mean — is that Boyle et al clearly recognized they were telling a post-pandemic narrative for a society (ours) that had just endured a pandemic (COVID-19), building in an opportunity to grieve and process what we’ve collectively been through via the cathartic Bone Temple…
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The post “One Battle After Another, Sinners” by Zack Sharf was published on 12/30/2025 by variety.com