It’s time to update our new Netflix movies guide for the final time in July 2025 – and there’s only one golf-based film to putt (pun intended!) onto this list: Happy Gilmore 2.
That’s right, one of July’s final new movies to land on Netflix is a long overdue sequel to the 1996 fan-favorite Adam Sandler sports comedy. If you’ve been waiting for it to swing its way onto the world’s best streaming service, you need not wait any longer.
Not a Sandler fan? Don’t fret. Our best Netflix movies article is full of other great films for you to check out. Before you head over there, though, scroll on through our new Netflix movies guide to see if there’s something else that takes your fancy.
New Netflix movies: July
Happy Gilmore 2
Release date: July 25
Runtime: 117 minutes
Age rating: PG-13 (US); 12 (UK)
Cast: Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Chris McDonald, Benny Safdie, Ben Stiller, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, John Daly, Haley Joel Osment, and many more
Director: Kyle Newacheck
RT score: TBC (critics); TBC (audience)
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The saying goes that legends never die – and, after almost a 30-year wait, the myth that is Happy Gilmore is certainly alive and well. The much anticipated follow-up to the 1996 sports comedy that turned Sandler into a household name, Happy Gilmore 2 sees the eponymous return to the course to pay for his daughter Vienna’s ballet school. The only way he’ll do so is by winning the Tour Championship for a second time, which will be no mean feat considering the amount of talent on display (yes, even real-life golfers appear in this flick!). I wasn’t overly impressed with Happy Gilmore when I streamed it for the first time a few years ago, but I can appreciate it’s a cult classic for many, so I’ll be shocked if its sequel doesn’t land a hole-in-one and secure top spot on Netflix’s in-house movie chart.
Madea’s Destination Wedding
Release date: July 11
Runtime: 102 minutes
Age rating: PG-13 (US); 12A (UK)
Cast: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis Patton, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Taja V. Simpson, Diamond White, Jermaine Harris, Xavier Smalls
Director: Tyler Perry
RT score: 13% (critics); 42% (audience)
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It seems Tyler Perry can do no wrong in the eyes of Netflix executives. Just weeks after his latest Netflix film Straw pulled in million of viewers, the latest entry in his Madea-fronted corny comedy movie series has now landed on the platform. This time, the titular matriarch and her family travel to the Bahamas for a shotgun wedding involving her grand-niece Tiffany. Based on its critical and commercial scores on Rotten Tomatoes, this is one you should be avoiding at all costs.
Brick
Release date: July 10
Runtime: 99 minutes
Age rating: R (US); 15 (UK)
Cast: Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee, Frederick Lau, Murathan Muslu, Josef Berousek, and Alexander Boyer
Director: Philip Koch
RT score: 43% (critics); 26% (audience)
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A movie that feels like it would’ve been more appropriate to release amid the pandemic because we weren’t allowed to leave our homes, German thriller flick Brick sounds like a claustrophobic’s nightmare scenario. In it, Schweighofer and Fee play Tim and Olivia, who wake one morning to find a mysterious black brick wall is blocking their front door. They can’t break through or circumnavigate it, either – so, like any good neighbor, they smash through their fellow apartment dwellers’ ceilings to unite and find a way out together. Based on its Rotten Tomatoes ratings, Brick‘s intriguing premise sounds like it was dreamt up without the narrative cement to bind it together. A movie that’ll crumble before your very eyes, then!
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: 26% (critics); 34% (audience)
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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.
What new Netflix movies are coming in August 2025 and beyond?
There are plenty of new Netflix movies that’ll be released between now and the end of the year. Here’s a list of the biggest ones to keep an eye out for:
- My Oxford Year (August 1)
- Fixed (August 13)
- Night Always Comes (August 15)
- The Thursday Murder Club (August 28)
- The Wrong Paris (September 12)
- She Said Maybe (September 19)
- Ruth & Boaz (September 26)
- Steve (October 3)
- Nouvelle Vague (October 10)
- She Walks in Darkness (October 17)
- A House of Dynamite (October 24)
- The Ballad of a Small Player (October 29)
- 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)
- R&B (TBC)
- The Twits (TBC)
- The Woman in Cabin 10 (TBC)
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