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. 14, 2025
Wide (United States)
Black Bag
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
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2025 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
97th Oscar-Nominated Shorts
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Mickey 17
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Paddington in Peru
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By the Throat
Crickets, It’s Your Turn
Daniela Forever
Eephus
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The result is a low key affair with small town guys being dudes. They’re mostly all attempting to tell each other how much they appreciate this time together without actually saying the words.
The Electric State
- Excerpt: The Electric State cribs from other successful similar films and doesn’t use what made those films special; this feels like it was stitched together with ChatGPT, containing none of the humanity it strives to portray.
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: If you’ve ever perused Simon Stålenhag’s illustrated novel of the same name, you will hardly recognise anything in the Russo Brothers’ The Electric State.
Gazer
Good Boy
Head Like a Hole
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Working with a budget of just $13,000…MacDonald-Labelle makes a feature debut that in a just world should rival “Skinamarink’s” buzz…a suspenseful psychological thriller larded with hilariously bizarre dialogue delivered by MVP Jeff McDonald.
Honey Bunch
House of Ashes
Kayara
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Kayara is unconvincing because of how generic the story is, focusing on a completely predictable “Hero’s Journey”. The film may entertain a family’s youngest members, but the rest will probably be just as disappointed as me.
The Last Sacrifice
A Mother’s Embrace
Nadaaniyan
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
O’Dessa
Odyssey
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Nyoni ends her film with a bang, a customary gathering of families for an ‘explanation’ of death and divvying up of material wealth where the film’s title becomes trenchantly clear…stirs up strong emotions.
Picture This
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: I wasn’t expecting anything revolutionary, and although it certainly could have been funnier and more romantic, it does work as a story about a young and talented daughter of immigrants finding her place in the UK.
Psyche
Queen of the Ring
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: This is an ordinary picture about an extraordinary person.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Queen of the Ring plays well to its audience. It’s obviously a little fish in a big pond despite its wide national rollout, but whatever it lacks in production quality is surely gained in heart.
Redux Redux
Rumpelstiltskin
Scared to Death
Seven Veils
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: A fascinating viewing experience – filled with good sequences and even better acting.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Jeanine is exorcising her demons by confronting her past through her art—wielding this opportunity as a weapon to ensure some culpability on [her former teacher’s] part is added to the myth surrounding his acclaim with this specific opera.
Sharp Corner
Silver Star
Timestamp
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: No dia em que se comemoram três anos da invasão da Ucrânia pelas tropas russas, evoca-se o valioso documentário de Kateryna Gornostai, a cineasta ucraniana de 35 anos que que trouxe à Berlinale o único exemplo de cinema a concurso para o Urso de Ouro, apesar de não conquistar qualquer prémio.
Las Tres Sisters
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews.
- Excerpt: Earnest inspirational family dramedy that’s set in rural Mexico.
Universal Language
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Rankin’s icy fantasia is the premier (well, only) fusion of Canadian absurdism and Iranian neorealism.
