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: Jun. 6, 2025
Wide (United States)
Ballerina
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Dangerous Animals
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Expanding (United States)
The Phoenician Scheme
- Excerpt: This is a movie that skitters along the surface of some of those themes without having much to say about them but looks gorgeous, in fact so exquisite that if it starts to drag, which it does, we wish the actors would get out of the way so we could better absorb the beauty of the settings. In other words, we’re in the bento box movie world of Wes Anderson.
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: On the one hand, “The Phoenician Scheme” can be seen as an ultimately sweet tale about a self-indulgent misanthrope learning to think beyond himself. On the other hand, that theme is so transparently obvious that it soon ceases to hold interest.
Limited (United States)
Barron’s Cove
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: The movie doesn’t stick the landing […] but thankfully, the experience as a whole is not ruined at all. If you’re in the mood for watching a mature and well-crafted drama, Barron’s Cove is still worth your time.
The Life of Chuck
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: adapting the Stephen King story, [Flanagan] hasn’t ironed out all the wrinkles, but he has made a moving contemplation on the meaning of life, one which owes a lot to a line in a Whitman poem and the idea that you live as long as you are remembered.
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A dreamy scrapbook of fortune-cookie morals—with one unforgettable moment that truly soars.
The Life of Chuck
2025 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
Black Bag
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Bring Her Back
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Captain America: Brave New World
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
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Karate Kid: Legends
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Lilo & Stitch
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
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Bono: Stories of Surrender
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: This isn’t a concert film. It’s at once a beautiful, kinetic picture book of black and white rockstar prowess and a stripped down, self-deprecating and vulnerable account of a life.
Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide to Surviving the Plot
- Excerpt: Latimer combines personal reflections (she grew up watching a lot of TV since her reality as a tomboy who was bad at sports wasn’t exactly an instant route to popularity) with a history of (mostly female) queer representation in (mostly) television.
Color Book
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Rich in both place and emotion, shot in evocative black and white, and scored with delicate precision, Color Book is a heartbreaking tale of grief and perseverance.
Fountain of Youth
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: I certainly expected something more energetic, stylised, and different, and not a merely competent film, which is charming at times and allows us to travel to several interesting locations across the globe, but nothing more.
Lost in Starlight
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: While the animation was gorgeous and the voice acting well performed, I couldn’t help but feel the melodrama trying to tug at my heart strings a little too blatantly.
- Excerpt: Narrative imbalance sends the Korean romance off-course, but at least the casual details that dream of Seoul’s overstimulated future are captivating along its scenic route.
Mountainhead
Samuel Castro @ El Colombiano [Spanish]
- Excerpt: La riqueza siempre ha otorgado un prestigio intelectual que la mayoría de las veces no se corresponde con la realidad.
Pavements
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Alex Ross Perry has devised a documentary that combines the surreal unreality of Nathan Fiedler’s ‘The Rehearsal’ with the Russian doll staged arts approach of Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” then goes a step farther…
Sally!
- Excerpt: Gearhart’s omission in Milk is also a metaphor for her life story: she did so much, and brought about so much change, and yet her name is not well known today. Hopefully Sally! can go some distance in correcting that state of affairs.
Sunlight
Nell Minow @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: “Sunlight,” the name of Roy’s radio station, appears on the side of the van. But it is also the light and warmth that helps two damaged people find acceptance and comfort in this tenderly told story.
Shelagh Rowan-Legg @ ScreenAnarchy
2024 Films
Deadpool & Wolverine
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Freaky Tales
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
The Girl with the Needle
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: More terrifying than any commercial horror film, the film develops dread and tension through situations that frequently occurred in Western societies at the beginning of the 20th century and that could still happen today.
2023 Films
Gonzo Girl
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s a highly fictionalised version of real events that manages to tell us something about the price of fame, and how much of it can be found in an environment of big personalities, expensive drugs, and distractions galore.
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