TOP Malayalam Movies of 2025

The year 2025 had a lot of releases both Theatrical & OTT, this year had several big releases. We at Popcorn Reviewss have shortlisted the top Malayalam movies. Do watch out for your favorites for the year 2025.

Check out the full list below:

Rekhachithram

By the face of it, the new Malayalam film Rekhachithram can be passed off as a police procedural that focuses on the investigation behind the skeleton that is found, following a guilt suicide. But the more you dwell on it, the more you venture into this fresh new space that can best be termed as an alternate history… Read More…

Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal

When you first enter the world of the new Malayalam film Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal, the soothing ambience immediately reminds you of the English Film His Three Daughters (2024). There is gloom lurking in the vicinity with an uneasy layer of tension even as you are acquainted to its three protagonists… Read More…

Alappuzha Gymkhana

Interestingly, the start and end of the new Malayalam film Alappuzha Gymkhana is that of failure. But there are multiple ways in which you can view the drama that unfolds between these pit-stops – one is that of the sport of boxing, and the other coming of age (yes, oddly despite failure being a binary metric for the same)… Read More…

Thudarum

The twin opening sequences of the Malayalam film Thudarum boast of two drastically different tonalities. In the first, you are acquainted with the torrential rain setting that wrecks havoc in the forest area of Kerala, creating a landslide with dozens entrapped inside toppled vehicles… Read More…

Padakkalam

The title of the new Malayalam film Padakkalam has its representation firstly in the opening act, and later in an unexpected setting. Padakkalam stands for battlefield, and so the brief opening animated sequence does paint a picture about an actual war that transpires between two historical figures. But at the same time, it highlights the importance of an ‘object’ that was protected ever since, just so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands… Read More…

Ronth

The cold open in a Shahi Kabir (written or directed) film is always worth noting. If it featured a man hanging himself in the middle of the night in Officer On Duty (2025), we witness a cop-character implicated with a crime that he may or may not have committed, in the new Malayalam film Ronth… Read More…

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra

The world created in the new Malayalam film Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra is a mix of a graphic novel and a gothic setting. In an opening transition scene, you see Chandra (Kalyani Priyadarshan) escaping after destroying her nemesis only for the screen to cut into a graphic novel title card with undertones of folklore and myth that kickstarts the proceedings… Read More…

Dies Irae

The ominous signs in the new Malayalam film Dies Irae are sown right at the beginning during its chilling cold open, that sets the ball rolling here. If it is the twisty spiral of the camera depicting a cement churner, or the uneasy atnospherics that accompany a construction site culminating into a tea cup breaking – the eerie nature of the drama is reflecting in these smaller moments that collectively formulate a picture that would borrow the familiar tropes of the horror genre and literally turn them on their head… Read More…

Eko

Imagine walking into a room which is cluttered – with things scattered and in an absolute mess, while you are being tasked with cleaning it in order for it to look presentable. Alternately, think of a giant jigsaw puzzle wherein the pieces are scattered only later on, for bits to come together in order for the picture to get clearer… Read More…

Kalamkaval

On a stormy night, Dahaad (2023) and Bhagwat: Chapter One (2025) decide to go in a pub. Both order a drink – for Dahaad it is the stronger whisky on the rocks, and for Bhagwat, it is Rum and Coke. The drinks arrive and so does the cyanide, and along with it, the banter of who is better… Read More…

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