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. 11, 2025
Wide (United States)
Superman
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Limited (United States)
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Lexi Venter gives one of the most extraordinary child performances I’ve ever seen.
Hot Spring Shark Attack
Kat Hughes @ THN
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Even at a mercifully brief 77 minutes, I could hardly wait for this movie to be over.
Sebastian Zavala @ Ventana Indiscreta [Spanish]
- Excerpt: This trashy film combines horror with fantasy, drawing on elements from Steven Spielberg’s classic Jaws, Japanese anime, and even sharksploitation. It’s pure, absurd entertainment.
Sovereign
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: serves as a cautionary tale. It is a very strong debut, especially when it sticks to the Kanes, Swegal’s clear narrative and direction of his actors the type of meat and potatoes filmmaking that sticks to one’s ribs.
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Christian Swegal’s Sovereign works as a quietly intense and relevant drama featuring a standout performance by Nick Offerman.
2025 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
28 Years Later
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Ballerina
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The Electric State
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Elio
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F1: The Movie
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Heart Eyes
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How to Train Your Dragon
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Jurassic World Rebirth
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Karate Kid: Legends
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The Life of Chuck
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M3GAN 2.0
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Mickey 17
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The Phoenician Scheme
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Sinners
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Thunderbolts*
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Until Dawn
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Warfare
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Cannibal Mukbang
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The brutal, tragic ending of Cannibal Mukbang makes the bold statement that certain things, like truly unconditional morality, are more important than love.
The Caretakers
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The Caretakers is not only an eco-horror, it takes on the capitalist land-owning class system.
Deep Cover
- Excerpt: As Hideo Kojima would say, I saw Deep Cover.
Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: The perfect film to introduce a young audience to the world of adventure movies for the first time—something like “Indiana Jones” or “Lara Croft for babies.” Such a description might sound patronising, but believe me, it isn’t.
Eye for an Eye
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Eye for an Eye deals with the haunting ramifications of hatred, and the transformative potential in admitting one’s guilt.
Frewaka
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Frewaka is a chilling reminder that the past clings to body and soul; there’s no outrunning an extra organ.
Misericordia
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Blissful ignorance and morality simply don’t mix. I wouldn’t have called it a comedy until reading its billed genres (dark or not), but you can’t deny that it unfolds with a perpetual smirk.
Pretty Thing
- Excerpt: Even when compared to the recent underwhelming crop of erotic thrillers, topped by the enjoyably escalating silliness of Deep Water, Pretty Thing is especially chaste, abstaining from both sexual titillation and the campy fallout that results from making a series of decisions driven solely by libido.
The Queen of My Dreams
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: This Canadian fantasia provides a gay patch on Bollywood musicals.
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