8 Must-See Movies From 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Critics Survey: The Best Movies of Sundance 2025, According to 176 Critics
Eva Victor's "Sorry, Baby," which marks the emergence of a bold new filmmaking voice, dominated most of the categories.
The 16 Best Movies of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
It was a slow Sundance in terms of sales, but Variety's critics still found movies to inspire them as to the artistic health of the indie film scene.
It List guide to Sundance Film Festival: 'Opus,' 'Twinless' and the other movies that had everyone talking
It List here for the latest releases that we can’t wait to watch, stream, listen to, read and binge.This year, 88 films screened at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The titles ranged from A24-produced Opus to Netflix-acquired Train Dreams.
The 17 Best Movies of Sundance 2025 (And How to See Them)
Sundance 2025 might be over, but these are some of the films that people will be talking about these films for the rest of the year — and beyond.
THR Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of Sundance 2025
A sexy gay cruising thriller, an all-too-timely drama about post-wildfire recovery and a shocking doc about U.S. prisons are among our critics’ faves from the fest.
All the best movies we saw at Sundance Film Festival, ranked (including 'Twinless')
Here are the best movies we saw at this year's Sundance Film festival, ranked (including "Twinless," "Atropia" and new Pee-wee Herman doc).
Sundance 2025: all the latest movie reviews and updates from the festival
Naturally, The Verge is going to be taking in as much of Sundance as we can and posting bite-sized reviews of everything we see. We’ll also be posting longer reviews and sharing trailers, and you can follow along here to keep up with all of the news out of the festival.
The Best Sundance Films to Look Out for in 2025
Check out our list of top favorites below. Honorable mentions include: the Joel Edgerton- and Felicity Jones-starring Train Dreams (which Netflix acquired), Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, Jennifer Lopez and Tonatiuh’s stellar performances in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and the family road trip film Omaha.
The best films of Sundance 2025
The best films of Sundance 2025 include Train Dreams; Sorry, Baby; GEN_; and The Things You Kill, among others.
Memo to Distributors: Buy These Sundance 2025 Movies
Don't be fooled by the slow sales market — smart distributors will find that plenty of great Sundance movies are still up for ...
10 Best Movies at Sundance 2025
Knockout debuts, love letters to artists, two separate docs that skewer the notion of true-crime TV—these were the standouts of this year's Sundance.
The best movies we saw at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY, Utah — No one quite knew what to expect from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which came to the mountains of ...
Sundance Institute Announces Dates for 2026 Film Festival, Potentially the Last Held in Utah
The LGBTQ documentary "Come See Me in the Good Light," produced by Tig Notaro, Brandi Carlile, and Sara Bareilles and ...