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. 4, 2025
Wide (United States)
A Minecraft Movie
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Expanding (United States)
The Friend
- Excerpt: The movie is much more a meditation on grief, and it matches the literary grace of the book with delicacy and depth.
Limited (United States)
Eric LaRue
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s a solid debut for Shannon in the director’s chair and the type of movie that makes one excited to see what he’ll be able to do next.
Gazer
Chris Barsanti @ Slant Magazine
- Excerpt: Gazer sidles up to its story cautiously, mirroring its main character’s questioning nature.
A Nice Indian Boy
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Director Roshan Sethi and writer Eric Randall fashion a gay romcom like a group hug – warm, funny and overflowing with love and acceptance. Groff holds his arms, eyes and heart wide open for the shy Soni to stumble right into them.
2025 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Death of a Unicorn
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Novocaine
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Snow White
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The Actor
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwrtzreviews
- Excerpt: Surreal thriller that relates identity to memory.
The Assessment
Derrick Murray @ www.nerbot.com
Darkest Miriam
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Naomi Jaye attains a similar mood to last year’s “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” albeit one decidedly darker and more melancholy. The unconventional pairing of Lower and Mercier works exceptionally well…
Deva
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Holland
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: I came away uninterested by the themes, unmoved by the drama, and unaffected by the thrills.
- Excerpt: Mimi Cave flirts with noir intrigue and heightened melodrama, but despite its stylish setup, it never quite digs beneath the surface of its influences.
The Life List
- Excerpt: With little flair, flat characters, and a script that pretty much writes itself, it’s another unmemorable Netflix film that joins the abyss of forgotten-about movies on the streaming platform.
Locked
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: To the correct audience, however, Locked is a pretty accurate depiction of where we are right now. A populace beholden to the whims of an oligarchy setting obvious traps to justify its own violence.
Love, Brooklyn
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Number One on the Call Sheet
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Number One of the Call Sheet works because, through its two episodes, it makes us realise everything these awesome artists have had to go through. […] But it also shows how things have gotten much better and how there’s still a lot of work to be done.
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
Derrick Murray @ www.nerbot.com
- Excerpt: “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a transcendent cultural commentary that digs deep into the clashes between deep religious tradition and generational trauma.
The Penguin Lessons
- Excerpt: There is so much warmth and humor in this story that we cannot help feeling touched by the story and maybe even thinking about a penguin of our own.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s an inspiring story on all fronts. [But] considering what’s happening in our world—specifically America with its own broad and illegal renditions—it proves performatively quaint. That’s the mission, though. Say something, but not too much.
Psycho Therapy
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a blackly comedic twist on Hitchcockian marital suspense.
Revelations
- Excerpt: A gripping psychological thriller that weaves crime, faith, and fate into a tense, twist-filled narrative.
Screamboat
Secret Mall Apartment
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Workman does more than focus on the apartment, however, grounding its genesis in the gentrification that was overtaking the city…and broadening his scope by highlighting the public art projects the collective created at the time…
Thank You Very Much
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: [Kaufman] was a singular talent who broke the rules and paved the way for much of what entertainment has become. Thank You Very Much provides the biographical foundation so you can draw the lines.
Warfare
- Excerpt: Viscerally intense and technically masterful, Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza pull you into the chaos of battle but hesitates to reckon with its broader implications.
A Working Man
- Excerpt: A solid, no-frills action thriller that delivers exactly what you’d expect—bone-crunching fights, gruff one-liners, and Statham doing what he does best.
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: If you want Statham cracking skulls and taking names, you’ll get it in A WORKING MAN—just expect a more convoluted route than necessary.
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s nothing more or less than what you can expect from a new Jason Statham film. It’s hard-hitting action where the protagonist is so precise and invincible that it doesn’t take him much trouble to take down legions of baddies.
2024 Films
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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The People’s Joker
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