The best action movies of 2025 are as eclectic and remarkable as any other group of this year's genre films. Sure, you've got your straightforward superhero adventures and sequels, but even they manage to put exciting and inventive spins on familiar tropes and iconography. But you've also got grand-slams from some of the best directors working today, like Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler. Some of these movies are even shockingly experimental and cerebral, finding ways to challenge audiences and their love of violent spectacle on-screen even as they serve up relentlessly suspenseful shoot-outs and set pieces. Other films, however, relish in their pulpiness to offer a welcome antidote to today's tired franchise sequels (specifically, those of the dinosaur variety) or take fresh approach

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