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Best Comedy Movies of 2025: The Funniest Films
By Jordan A. · · Updated · 5 min read
2025 was a better year for film comedy than the discourse suggested. Not because any single release was a masterpiece, but because the range came back. A studio parody made money. Two mid-budget romantic comedies got wide releases and did not apologize for it. An indie about a man who cannot make friends became the most quoted film of the spring. Every title below was actually released in 2025, which sounds like a low bar and is one that most lists in this category fail.
They are grouped by the kind of laugh they produce, because a Coen brothers noir and a Disney body-swap sequel are not competing for the same evening. Each entry gives you the runtime and the release so you know what you are committing to. Where each film streams changes month to month, so the title page on BingeNext shows current US options.
The ones built for a crowd
The Naked Gun (released August 1, 2025, 85 minutes, directed by Akiva Schaffer) is the fourth film in the series and the first since 1994, with Liam Neeson playing Frank Drebin Jr. entirely straight opposite Pamela Anderson. The joke density is genuinely high and it is over in under ninety minutes, which is exactly right for a parody. The best pure gag film of the year.
One of Them Days (January 17, 2025, 97 minutes, directed by Lawrence Lamont) follows two friends played by Keke Palmer and SZA who have one day to replace the rent money one of their boyfriends spent. It is a straight-ahead buddy comedy, warm and fast, and it revived a form nobody had made properly in years. Watch it when you want to like the characters.
Freakier Friday (August 8, 2025, 111 minutes, directed by Nisha Ganatra) brings Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan back for a four-way version of the swap. It is a sequel to a 2003 remake and it is far more charming than that sentence deserves. Good with family in the room.
The ones that make you uncomfortable
Friendship (101 minutes, directed by Andrew DeYoung, premiered at Toronto in September 2024 and released in US cinemas May 9, 2025) is Tim Robinson as a man who meets a cool neighbor, played by Paul Rudd, and immediately ruins it. If you have seen I Think You Should Leave you know the register. It is the funniest film of the year and also the hardest to sit through.
Honey Don't! (August 22, 2025 in the US after a Cannes premiere in May, 89 minutes, directed by Ethan Coen) is a small-town noir with Margaret Qualley as a private investigator and Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans around her. It is loose, deadpan and deliberately silly, and it is the second in the trilogy Coen started with Drive-Away Dolls. Take it if you like your comedy dry to the point of dust.
The Roses (2025, directed by Jay Roach, written by Tony McNamara) puts Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in a marriage coming apart, reimagining the 1989 film from the same Warren Adler novel. McNamara wrote The Favourite, so the cruelty is well constructed. Do not put it on with a partner you are currently annoyed with.
Splitsville (2025, directed by Michael Angelo Covino) sets two couples against each other after one open marriage turns out to be less open than advertised. Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona are very good, and the film has one physical fight scene that is worth the ticket by itself.
The ones with a heart under the jokes
The Ballad of Wallis Island (100 minutes, directed by James Griffiths, premiered at Sundance in January 2025 and opened in the UK on May 30) has a lottery winner hire his favorite folk duo for a private concert on a Welsh island, not mentioning that the duo broke up and used to be together. Tim Key and Tom Basden wrote it and star alongside Carey Mulligan. The gentlest film here and probably the one you will recommend to other people.
A Nice Indian Boy (2025, directed by Roshan Sethi) is Karan Soni bringing his white fiance, played by Jonathan Groff and raised by Indian parents, home to meet his traditional family. Adapted from Madhuri Shekar's play, it does the meet-the-parents structure without a single mean joke.
Death of a Unicorn (March 28, 2025 after an SXSW premiere, 107 minutes, directed by Alex Scharfman) has Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega hit a unicorn with their car on the way to a billionaire's retreat, and then things get worse. It is a horror comedy about pharmaceutical greed and it is much funnier than scary. Uneven, and the good parts are very good.
Materialists (June 13, 2025, 117 minutes, written and directed by Celine Song) is a matchmaker played by Dakota Johnson caught between Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal. It is more romantic drama than comedy and it is included because it is the smartest film of the year about how people shop for partners. Manage your expectations on the laughs.
Where to start
If you want to laugh out loud, The Naked Gun. If you want to text someone about it afterward, Friendship. If you want something you can watch with anyone, One of Them Days or The Ballad of Wallis Island. If you want a film with an argument in it, Materialists.
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Topics covered: best-of, 2025, comedy, movies, funny, genre
About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and is responsible for every guide published on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu. Dates, season counts and where-to-watch details in these guides are checked against official sources before publishing, and corrections are welcome at Jordan@Bingenext.com.