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. 25, 2025
Wide (United States)
The Accountant 2
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Until Dawn
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Limited (United States)
On Swift Horses
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The film isn’t very satisfying while you watch it, but it does have an odd staying power, mostly due to Elordi’s performance and the American upheaval Minahan evokes.
2025 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Amateur
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Drop
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The Friend
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Heart Eyes
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The Monkey
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Sinners
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The Wedding Banquet
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Blue Sun Palace
- Excerpt: The debut feature from writer-director Constance Tsang, Blue Sun Palace pulls back the curtain of a Queens massage parlor to give us an intimate look at the lives of the immigrant women who work there. The undeniable toll that their work takes on them in body and spirit is tempered by the close friendships they have formed with each other, but a shocking act of violence plunges one of them into a pit of grief and loneliness that threatens to consume her entirely.
Bruce LaBruce’s The Visitor
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: LaBruce’s The Visitor is a timely piece of cinema that wants to shake up the white, hetero-patriarchal order of Western societies and get you off in the process, as long as that post-nut clarity pushes you to take the revolution from the bedroom into the streets.
Eephus
Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
- Excerpt: It is the last game of the season for the River Dogs and Alder’s Paint in Eephus, Carson Lund’s ode to baseball and small town life.
The Electric State
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The Electric State is worse than broken: it’s infuriating.
Fight or Flight
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
- Excerpt: For action pic fans, this a flight worth taking.
Fréwaka
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Aislinn Clarke (“The Devil’s Doorway”) continues to explore Catholic repression in Ireland through the lens of the supernatural in her second feature, which evades the sophomore slump curse with its mastery of slow building dread.
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Mere Husband Ki Biwi
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One of Them Days
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Syreeta Singleton’s script is a bit overloaded in the second half — there are essentially three climaxes — but her knack for character dynamics and slangy, lived-in dialogue gives the film its voice.
Opus
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Opus is a mind-boggling failure. Not in the “so bad it’s fun” category, or even the “they took a swing” tier.
Pink Narcissus
- Excerpt: Now newly restored in 4K by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Pink Narcissus has returned to hypnotize viewers anew and remind us of the undeniable impact Bidgood’s meticulously crafted images of camp fantasy have had on queer art and culture.
Queens of Drama
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: [The film] revels in celebrity’s fabrication. The messaging is sound with a package dripping in gender queer excess.
The Teacher
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: … a film well-executed and sensitively written, giving us more insight than we might expect. And it will also help explain that standing in solidarity with the Palestinians is actually standing with all the victims of the long-standing conflict for peace.
Topper
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: McNamara’s film tackles the depths of alcoholism by focusing not only on Topper’s trauma and its effects, it also focuses on how part of dragging yourself out of addiction of any kind is accepting personal responsibility—accepting that while you can’t erase the ghosts of your past, you can choose not to let them turn you into a ghost of yourself, or a monster.
The Ugly Stepsister
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Blichfeldt lays [the] patriarchal misogyny [of fairy tales] bare. Because that’s the true motivation behind such storybook romance: the desire to satisfy a man for survival in hopes he might satisfy you too.
2024 Films
Blink Twice
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Challengers
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Cloud
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back with one of his boldest films yet — Cloud — a genre-bending thriller that starts as a swindler drama and spirals into a surreal, suspense-filled ride through stalker horror, home invasion, and full-blown action. Starring Masaki Suda as a morally bankrupt reseller and Kotone Furukawa as his gold-digging partner, Cloud is both a biting satire of online capitalism and a strange meditation on revenge, karma, and connection in the digital age.
A Fidai Film
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “A Fidai Film” transcends conventional cinema. Despite its experimental form, it fulfills one of the core missions of the documentary form: to educate and to resist forgetting. In that regard, it succeeds powerfully. Its recognition at international festivals, including the Special Jury Prize at Cinéma du Réel, is definitely deserved.
The Jacket
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Ultimately, if not for the creative metaphor of the jacket, “The Jacket” might have risked becoming just another entry among the many documentaries about Palestinian displacement. But it is precisely this device,and the thoughtful, inventive way it’s integrated, that gives the work its unique identity and emotional resonance.
Prison in the Andes
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Prison in the Andes is at times incredibly satirical and, at every corner, darkly serious, too. It’s the story of power hungry men unwilling to let go of not just their lavish, greedy lifestyles, but also of their grip on the nation.
Ravens
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Ravens” is an excellent biopic, highlighting the portrait of a man who was brilliant and passionate as much as self-indulgent and self-destructive in the best possible way.
Thank You for Banking With Us
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Palestinian cinema has long been defined by its intelligence and self-deprecating humor in the face of systemic oppression. Abba continues this tradition with confidence and originality. “Thank You for Banking With Us!” is not only a sharp critique of patriarchal and bureaucratic dysfunction but also a vibrant, emotionally grounded, and thoroughly entertaining film.
Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Despite this, “Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities” stands as a competent and thoughtful documentary that succeeds in highlighting Tripoli with surprising depth, especially within its relatively compact 88-minute runtime.
Xoftex
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Attempting to dissect “Xoftex” may lead to confusion; however, when experienced as a cohesive whole, the value of Deshe’s endeavor becomes evident. The film offers an inexplicably captivating journey from beginning to end.?
2023 Films
Valley of the Dead
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Valley of the Dead” is an outstanding work that conveys its themes with eloquence and depth, offering a realistic and poignant perspective on the impact of war.
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