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: Mar. 21, 2025
Wide (United States)
Ash
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Magazine Dreams
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Snow White
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Limited (United States)
Asian Persuasion
- Excerpt: Asian Persuasion uses overtired Hollywood clichés to tell its story, but its own voice gets buried under implausible, overly exaggerated scenarios. It also espouses ugly masculinity in its lead character, who uses people as his puppets to get his own ends.
Bob Trevino Likes It
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: [Laymon’s] screenplay lacks subtlety, Lily’s dad’s over the top selfish insensitivity borderline villainous, but her direction of Ferreira and John Leguizamo, so touching in how they affect each other’s characters’ lives, wins you over.
Misericordia
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Misericordia is a Latin word meaning mercy or compassion, but while writer/director Alain Guiraudie’s (“Stranger by the Lake”) film may share some of the Catholic sensibilities of Bresson, it also enjoys the dark yet impish qualities of Chabrol.
2025 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Black Bag
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
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Mickey 17
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Presence
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Any Day Now
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Eric Aronson makes his feature debut kicking off with a cheeky twist on a Coen Brothers title card…before diving into what turns out to be less about the infamous Gardner Museum heist and more about an unusual mentor/protege, coming-of-age story…gives character actor Guilfoyle a leading role and the actor seizes the opportunity, creating a character who is both scarily combustible and stealthily lovable.
Borderline
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Samara Weaving is brilliant (as always), and the overall experience is entertaining, but considering the premise, I can’t help but feel the film could have been so much more. Watch it for Weaving and even Nicholson.
Clown in a Cornfield
Daredevil Born Again: Episode 4
Sebastian Zavala @ NoEsEnSerie.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: If this feels like a minor episode, it’s because the first three episodes of “Daredevil: Born Again” have been extremely good; in other words, the bar is high. However, there’s a lot to enjoy in this fourth episode.
The Electric State
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: It’s a movie that aims for a heartfelt tale of family and togetherness but comes off as cloying and superficial.
The Home
Julie Keeps Quiet
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A story that raises interesting themes about power relations, control, consent, and truth in a believable and powerful way.
Last Breath
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A gripping true-story thriller that plunges into an undersea nightmare.
Leila and the Wolves
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The result is a powerful document of women’s crucial impact to the Arab world during this time of cultural and political upheaval. It ensures their voice won’t be silenced or pushed to the sidelines as if they weren’t there fighting the entire time.
Mermaid
Ne Zha 2
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This animated mega-hit in China is an action-packed monsoon of mythological mayhem.
- Excerpt: The sequel is the culmination of five years of hard work and it clearly shows, with some of the most eye-watering yet graceful fight scenes seen in animation.
Novocaine
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: While not without its stumbles, Novocaine is a fun, frothy film that entertains and amuses.
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: You laugh and wince simultaneously, and the lower your tolerance for pain is, the more it will make you do both of those things.
- Excerpt: It’s not memorable, and there’s too much carnage for the spirited tone it strives for, but the actors make it work.
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s lighthearted, slightly ambitious entertainment; nothing mind-blowing, but curiously, compelling enough to leave one wanting to see a potential sequel. We’ll just have to wait and see.
O’Dessa
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: It may not be remembered decades down the road, but there’s definite entertainment value in its 106 minutes.
- Excerpt: O’Dessa is a frankly ridiculous Frankenfilm, swinging for the fences with other movies’ imaginations.
One More Shot
Opus
- Excerpt: “Opus” is almost smart, almost good, and almost worth your time. A first-rate but mostly under-used cast flounders in the second half of a story that begins as a satire of obsession with celebrity that veers into a less successful thriller.
Speak.
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
An Unfinished Film
- Excerpt: Director Lou Ye’s hybrid docudrama An Unfinished Film may provide a much-needed sense of catharsis, functioning as it does as a cinematic archive of the early days of the pandemic when the city of Wuhan was abruptly locked down and life suddenly disrupted for all who lived and worked there.
Women Who Run Hollywood: Four Documentaries by Clara and Julia Kuperberg
- Excerpt: The French title, which translates to And Women Created Hollywood, gives a better indication of the content of this documentary, since its focus is on the early years of Hollywood…
The World Will Tremble
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The quick pace and fluid passing of time is the [film’s] best feature because this escape becomes less about the characters than the act itself. Everything they sacrifice proves [their eye-witness account] will always be more important than their lives.
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews.
- Excerpt: Fascinating untold true story of Holocaust prisoners escaping from a Polish death camp in 1942.
