July 2025 is set to be a big deal on the new Netflix movies front. After a pretty barren June, there'll be plenty of new movies to stream on Netflix in the days and weeks ahead.
Leading the charge on the best streaming service's new film front is The Old Guard 2, which hit the platform on July 2. You'll need to read on to see if the Charlize Theron-starring action sequel is worth investing your time in, though. Alternatively, you could just switch gears and check out the best Netflix movies worth watching today. Hey, I'm not your dad, do what you want.
New Netflix movies: July
The Old Guard 2
Release date: July 2
Runtime: 106 minutes
Age rating: 16+ (US); 15 (UK)
Cast: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Veronica Ngô, Henry Golding, Uma Thurman, and Chiwetel Ejiofor
RT score: 28% (critics); 44% (audience)
I didn't mind The Old Guard. It was an easy action movie to stick on and enjoy for what it was. I'm also a sucker for Charlize Theron kicking ass, too – indeed, Mad Max: Fury Road and Atomic Blonde are among my favorite action movies. For whatever reason, though, I just can't get excited for The Old Guard 2. Maybe it's because five years have passed since the original was released. Maybe it's down to the fact that it largely covers the same old ground (albeit with Theron's Andy now being mortal and vulnerable to, you know, dying) as its predecessor did. Or maybe I've just read too much into its abject critical and audiences scores on Rotten Tomatoes. In short: I'll be giving this a miss and I think you should, too.
New Netflix movies: June
Kpop Demon Hunters
Release date: June 20
Runtime: 99 minutes
Age rating: PG-13 (US); PG (UK)
Cast: Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Joel Kim Booster, Liza Koshy, with Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Byung Hun Lee
Directors: Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
RT score: 94% (critics); 89% (audience)
From Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix, this animated flick is a blast from start to finish. In it, Rumi, Mira, and Zoey are one of the world's biggest Kpop groups by day. At night, though, they masquerade as – surprise surprise – demon hunters. However, when a group of demonic entities take the fight to the titular team under the guise of a new Kpop boyband, Rumi, Mira, and Zoey must thwart their foes' plan for world domination on and off the stage. With laugh-out-louds jokes, a gorgeous animation style inspired by the Spider-Verse movies, a great story, and earworm-style original songs performed by a whole host of artists including real-life Kpop outfit TWICE, Kpop Demon Hunters is another feather in the cap of Netflix's ever-strong animated film contingent.
Tyler Perry's Straw
Release date: June 6
Runtime: 107 minutes
Age rating: 16-plus (US); 15 (UK)
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Sherri Shepherd, Teyana Taylor, Sinbad, Rockmond Dunbar, Ashley Versher, Mike Merrill, and Glynn Turman
Director: Tyler Perry
RT score: 50% (critics); 70% (audience)
The latest project from prolific creator Tyler Perry, Straw stars Taraji P. Henson as the mother and carer of her ill daughter. Pushed to the brink by a world that doesn't seem to care about her or even know of her family's plight, Henson's hardworking mom soon finds herself at the center of a bank robbery that doesn't exactly go to plan. Billed as a dramatic thriller, Straw is a rare Perry-led production that's earned its stripes with general audiences. Critics have been less keen on it but, given its titanic first-week performance (it was streamed by almost 50 million people), it's clearly been a hit with casual viewers.
What new Netflix movies will be released throughout 2025?
New Netflix movies will arrive on a more regular basis in July 2025 and beyond. Here's what's on the horizon:
- Ziam (July 9)
- Brick (July 10)
- Almost Cops (July 11)
- Madea's Destination Wedding (July 11)
- Wall to Wall (July 18)
- A Normal Woman (July 24)
- Happy Gilmore 2 (July 25)
- My Oxford Year (August 1)
- Fixed (August 13)
- The Thursday Murder Club (August 28)
- The Wrong Paris (September 12)
- Steve (October 3)
- A House of Dynamite (October 24)
- In Your Dreams (November 14)
- Train Dreams (November 21)
- Frankenstein (November 2025, date TBC)
- Troll 2 (December 1)
- Jay Kelly (December 5)
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (December 12)
- 10Dance (December 2025, date TBC)
- A Merry Little Ex-Mas (TBC)
- Night Always Comes (TBC)
- R&B (TBC)
- The Ballad of the Small Player (TBC)
- The Twits (TBC)
- The Woman in Cabin 10 (TBC)
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