Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.
Opening: Apr. 11, 2025
Wide (United States)
The Amateur
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Drop
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Warfare
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Black Bag
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Companion
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Death of a Unicorn
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The Friend
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Love Hurts
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Magazine Dreams
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A Minecraft Movie
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Presence
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Back in Action
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s a disposable experience, but it has an unobjectionable tone and spirit.
Bob Trevino Likes It
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Drowning Dry
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s okay to give yourself to the film’s odd rhythm because that sense of confusion you feel is purposeful. These are fallible people dealing with internal doubts while striving to stay afloat.
Eric LaRue
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The thing about Eric LaRue is that it doesn’t mine these complexities to search for answers or empathy. No, it seems more interested in stoking the hate instead. It craves provocation.
Freaky Tales
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: It operates on tone and attitude. It has fun doing what it does and invites us to join in.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Oakland’s own Too $hort [narrates] the “facts” while also sprinkling in what he’s “heard” to cut through the speculation and breathe life into Fleck and Boden’s wildly violent homage to an era and area close to their hearts.
- Excerpt: Freaky Tales is a cranking romp, zigzagging through disparate lives and tying them all together with surgical cleverness and wit.
Freaky Tales
Grand Tour
Maxance Vincent @ Awards Radar
Hell of a Summer
Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
- Excerpt: The directorial debut of Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk, it is a horror/comedy that is not shy at all about its influences.
The Luckiest Man in America
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The era-specific production design, expert pacing, and captivating twists once the truth is uncovered provide the scaffolding so the actors can turn it into gold.
A Man and a Woman
- Excerpt: Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman is a film as simple and complicated as its title implies. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay, it chronicles the tentative, tender romance between a widow and a widower, irresistibly drawn to one another despite the heavy weight of past tragedies.
A Nice Indian Boy
- Excerpt: It is an enormous delight to see Karan Soni, best known as the taxi driver fanboy in the “Deadpool” movies and Sunita Mani, also most often in smaller roles, here given significant, layered characters, which they play with exceptional heart and sensitivity in an endearing story of romance and family and dancing at Indian weddings. I enjoyed it immensely.
One to One: John & Yoko
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: MacDonald has found a unique approach to reflect Ono’s influence on Lennon, the couple’s evolution as activists and how times have changed little…The whole is also grounded editorially by the couple’s music…from stunning, newly restored footage
The Penguin Lessons
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A peculiar mix of political drama and quirky comedy, but it finds a heartwarming balance in the unlikely duo of Steve Coogan and the penguin he rescues.
Redux Redux
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Redux Redux is about confronting monstrosity while refusing to let monstrosity change you.
Secret Mall Apartment
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: A puckish tale of protest, ingenuity, and performance art seeping into real life thanks to eight hometown heroes who clearly understood how to blend audacious social commentary with a good time.
Sky Force
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Test
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Woman in the Yard
Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
- Excerpt: A day-time horror film from director Jaume Collet-Serra, starring Danielle Deadwyler.
2024 Films
The Apprentice
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Better Man
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Juror #2
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Memoir of a Snail
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
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Breakup Season
Tina Kakadelis @ Beyond the Cinerama Dome
- Excerpt: Breakup Season is a hard dose of reality wrapped in a warm scarf.
Omni Loop
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: It’s a shame that the movie is intent on hopping about through distracting comedy, absurdism, and science fiction, instead of focusing on what really matters to it.
Secret Mall Apartment
Tina Kakadelis @ Beyond the Cinerama Dome
- Excerpt: Like the apartment it’s named after, Secret Mall Apartment is an epic feat of artistic creation, but one whose meaning remains murky to those who didn’t have a home in Providence Place.
Sweethearts
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Flaws, quirks, and all, I really like Sweethearts. Most importantly, it is funny and zippy; but it’s a little bolder than your average teen comedy fare.
Watchmen Chapter II
- Excerpt: While a few minor things are changed, Watchmen Chapter II doesn’t really draw outside the lines and I don’t know if that’s good or bad.
We Were Dangerous
Tina Kakadelis @ Beyond the Cinerama Dome
- Excerpt: “Life’s easier if you don’t resist,” says the Matron, but the friendship at the heart of We Were Dangerous rejects that. Life is easier if you do resist when you have people who share the same beliefs.
Y2K
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s baldly satirical, but not cleverly so, like a half-hearted Scream minus a Ghostface or any of that franchise’s wit.
2023 Films
Sister Death
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: I liked “Sister Death” more than its predecessor, but together, both films certainly work to build an intense and dark world that will surely continue into the not-so-distant future.
