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: Jul. 4, 2025
Wide (United States)
Jurassic World Rebirth
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Limited (United States)
40 Acres
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Featuring another standout performance from Deadwyler as a tough love matriarch, “40 Acres” is a taut survival thriller where a teenager’s attraction to an unknown young woman keeps us guessing about her motivations.
2025 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
28 Years Later
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F1: The Movie
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M3GAN 2.0
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Presence
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Sinners
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: [The filmmakers] refuse to cut corners or soften edges. These men must be forced to see the error of their way, not to teach the other a lesson, but to realize where they went wrong themselves.
A Desert
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: A Desert is an eerie examination of America’s decay, in the landscape and the population, as a photographer seeking the truth accidentally comes upon a horrific truth that will do anything to prevent being revealed.
The Encampments
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The film does a great job of historically contextualizing the protests, but the look inside the conscious attempt to dehumanize Palestinians by Columbia itself makes the project invaluable.
Found Footage: The Making of The Patterson Project
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Tzannes isn’t actually messing around where it concerns the horror aspect. Not only does [he] get the joke, he knows how to exploit it so his parody can also become the real thing.
Ground Zero
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Hot Milk
- Excerpt: Each of the central figures is a Schrödinger’s Cat of conflicting personas, struggling to find a sense of control amid limits, dislocation, and shame.
It Feeds
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It Feeds is a pleasant surprise. It clearly can’t compare to the big Hollywood productions, but if you’re willing to watch it with an open mind, I’m sure you’ll find a lot of value in its proposal.
Kesari Chapter 2
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Old Guard 2
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Two chapters in so far and this franchise has yet to really make an impression.
Our Hero Balthazar
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews.
- Excerpt: Leaves us with a sense of unease about young people in today’s world.
Pins and Needles
The Ritual
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: It’s not ambitious enough to take a risk or try something different. It does the bare minimum and nothing more.
Sally
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Sally does an excellent job covering (Dr. Sally Ride’s) public, private and secret life, neither glorifying nor tarnishing this now legendary figure.
Self-Help
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: It all adds up to an invigorating ride that supplies everything necessary for horror fans to latch onto at the surface and a captivating human story of imperfect souls doing their best to, ultimately, accept themselves underneath.
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Self-Help is a fierce attack on leaders, cult or otherwise, who prey on the vulnerable by pushing the fallacy that they’re the only ones who can help people actualise their truest, best self.
So Fades the Light
2024 Films
The Wailing
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It generates suspense and tension in an unexpectedly calm way, demanding patience from the viewer to immerse them in a world that offers few easy explanations.
2023 Films
The Queen of My Dreams
Sebastian Zavala @ Ventana Indiscreta [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s about the pains of adolescence, the lack of acceptance by older people towards that which is simply different and, of course, the complex relationships between mothers and daughters.
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