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: Feb. 21, 2025
Wide (United States)
The Monkey
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The Unbreakable Boy
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Limited (United States)
Cleaner
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A fast-paced dose of escapist entertainment.
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s a traditional, energetic thriller that, despite taking a while to get started, is sufficiently captivating and aggressive once both the protagonists and antagonists decide to get going.
Ex-Husbands
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s difficult to discern just what point Pritzker is trying to make with a film that feels like it has gotten lost in the woods as the filmmaker tries to work through personal issues…
Millers in Marriage
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Edward Burns turns in one of his best films to date.
- Excerpt: Putting infidelity and broken families at the forefront again, Edward Burns treads well-worn ground with his take on middle age, post-child life.
2025 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Captain America: Brave New World
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Dog Man
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Paddington in Peru
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Becoming Led Zeppelin
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: This doc is about the band as a working unit, and that makes it indispensable.
The Dead Thing
- Excerpt: There are two stars in The Dead Thing: Hunt (who made her film debut as Danielle Moonstar/Mirage in The New Mutants) and the cinematography of Ioana Vasile, which totally sells the possibility that the supernatural can exist within our modern world.
Dhoom Dhaam
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Gorge
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: The Gorge is far from perfect, but that might be the very reason it works.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: If the rest were better than just “fine,” [the ending’s bow-tied] letdown probably would have hurt more. As is, The Gorge simply remains fine.
Mickey 17
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: “They were expendable”, assim reza o título do filme do John Ford, realizado há precisamente 80 anos. Isso mesmo, no ano do fim da 2.ª Guerra Mundial. O que isto tem a ver com Mickey 17? Isso. Rigorosamente nada.
No Other Land
Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: This injustice is not fair. This violence is not fair. This treatment of an entire community of human beings as second-class citizens is not fair.
Old Guy
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Old Guy is the kind of movie one can watch while doing the laundry or ironing clothes, and sometimes, that’s the most we can expect nowadays from such a talented cast and crew.
The Other Widow
- Excerpt: The Other Widow is a darkly comic look at modern Israeli life that expertly manages the tricky balance between recognizing the transgressive nature of Ella’s relationship and feeling empathy for her as a woman sincerely in mourning.
Rounding
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Smallwood is very good at presenting the terror and fatigue driving James into the ground, but the script’s choice for him to admit the truth as though he’s been actively lying rather than subconsciously hiding undercuts its emotional impact.
Sorry, Baby
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Timestalker
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Lowe packs a ton of messaging into a very tightly wound package from patriarchy to feminism and fate to free will. It works more than not.
2024 Films
Armand
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Blitz
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A Complete Unknown
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Here
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I’m Still Here
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Joker: Folie à Deux
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Juror #2
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Strange Darling
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Thelma
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Wolfs
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97th Oscar-Nominated Shorts – Animated
Aku wa sonzai shinai
Samuel Castro @ El Colombiano [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Porque aunque “El mal no existe” muestra desde su mismo título la ironía con la que aborda Hamaguchi el asunto, su visión sarcástica sobre algunos de los vicios contemporáneos, es en contraste con las palabras de ciertos profetas del desarrollo o con los discursos afiebrados de los ambientalistas a ultranza, que la película adquiere una fuerza de la que carece por sí sola.
The Dead Thing
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It tells us a lot about toxic men who can’t take no for an answer, and how all they want is to possess women. It’s an intriguing concept, and while it doesn’t make for the scariest movie ever, I don’t think it’s without interest.
Estado de Silencio
Samuel Castro @ El Colombiano [Spanish]
- Excerpt: El periodismo en América Latina (y no es que en el resto del mundo las cosas sean mucho mejores) luce hoy como un barco encallado. Como una nave que cuando fue muy grande surcaba las aguas de la realidad con facilidad, y que ahora no sabe cómo maniobrar en una actualidad cada vez más pantanosa.
Millers in Marriage
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Millers in Marriage feels like a vestige of a simpler time; a movie that would have probably been rather successful in the nineties, but that nowadays feels a bit tired and predictable and even self-centred.
Music by John Williams
Samuel Castro @ El Colombiano [Spanish]
- Excerpt: “La música de John Williams”, documental que estrenó Disney Plus hace unos días, está llena de momentos en los que a todos nos brillan los ojos, como a Spielberg contando aquella anécdota, porque John Williams es el compositor vivo más popular que existe aunque las multitudes que tararean sus obras no reconozcan su rostro.
Le règne animal
Samuel Castro @ El Colombiano [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Uno amanece convertido en un horrible insecto. O en un horrible lobo, con pelos erizados donde no los tenía. O en un horrible pajarraco que en vez de hablar grazna. Como nos lo recordó hace muy poco Pixar en “Intensa-mente 2”, hay una noche en la que uno deja de repente la infancia y se convierte en un horrible adolescente que ya no entiende en qué idioma hablan los papás y que sólo quiere salir de la casa a conocer el mundo.
