Here are 4 films you absolutely must see this weekend at the cinema

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Here we are, it's 2025. Best wishes! If 2024 was a great year for moviegoers, 2025 should be just as (or even more) exceptional with the release of highly anticipated films like Superman and Mickey 17.

In this sense, the year has already started very well with a first week of cinema that makes you dream. On the bill, we note a slew of very good feature films freshly released for the new year and we are delighted. We have therefore selected the 4 films that are worth a look in this first weekend of 2025. There will be something for everyone.

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In A Bear in the Jura, Laura Calamy and Franck Dubosc play Cathy and Michel, a couple worn down by time and financial difficulties. If they no longer really talk to each other, everything changes when Michel accidentally kills two people while trying to avoid a bear on the road. Everything becomes even more complicated when they discover 2 million euros in the trunk…

This film directed by Franck Dubosc himself is incredible, flirting between thriller and comedy. With an impeccable cast (Laura Calamy, Franck Dubosc, Benoit Poelvoorde, Joséphine de Meaux and Kim Higelin), an improbable scenario that we adhere to and a masterful writing, A Bear in the Jurasucceeds in his coup, making people laugh while keeping them in suspense. The press gives it an average of 3.5 out of 5 while AlloCiné viewers climb to 3.8.

For a sweet family moment, Totto-chan, the little girl at the windowis ideal. This animated feature film is an adaptation of the best-selling autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, an actress, presenter, essayist, UNICEF ambassador (and much more!) who is particularly well-known and appreciated in Japan.

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We follow a very boisterous and resourceful young girl in the early 1940s. Expelled from her school, Totto-chan is then enrolled in Tomoe, a school like no other where old train cars serve as classrooms. The school principal encourages his students to be independent and creative. As Japan descends into war, Totto-chan befriends a disabled boy and discovers that life's little experiences are more important than lessons.

Totto-chan the Little Girl at the Windowfinds its balance by subtly and delicately addressing serious subjects. Poignant, the feature film received the Paul Grimault Prize at the Annecy Animation Film Festival this summer and has already captivated the press (3.8/5) and AlloCiné viewers (4/5).

Come on, get out the tissues. To start the year off with a bang, Love in the presentcomes to tickle our tear glands with a heartbreaking love story. Florence Pugh (Midsommar) and Andrew Garfield (Tick, tick… Boom !) touch us with this film that intelligently addresses love in the face of adversity. The feature film focuses on three significant moments in the lives of these two characters: their meeting, the birth of a child and illness.

It is the acting duo, with an alchemy that bursts off the screen, who carry this feature film that promises to take viewers through many emotions. If L’amour au présent does not revolutionize the genre, it offers several excellent ideas and surprises with its sincerity. The press gives it a score of 3.2 out of 5. As for AlloCiné viewers, they are more excited with an average of 3.9 out of 5.

Bird is the story of Bailey, a 12-year-old girl whose life is very eventful. Between her (young) irresponsible father who is going to marry a woman he has only known for 3 months, her brother who is involved in strange affairs, her mother who is the victim of a violent man, the young girl feels good alone as puberty approaches.

Left to her own devices, Bailey will cross paths with Bird, an enigmatic man who will contribute to her development and evolution. Poetic and raw, Bird is an incredibly accurate film thanks to authentic and original staging and excellent actors. The young Nykiya Adams shines as much as Barry Keoghan (Saltburn). The press praises Bird (3.9 out of 5). AlloCiné viewers agree on a score of 3.7. To see in dark rooms.

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