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: Sep. 19, 2025
Wide (United States)
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
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Him
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Limited (United States)
Plainclothes
- Excerpt: Plainclothes becomes a gay tragedy brought to its knees by its filmmaker’s unrelenting stylistic futzing.
2025 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
Bring Her Back
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Caught Stealing
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
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The Long Walk
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
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The Baltimorons
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Funny people can hurt and straight-faced professionals can know how to have fun. Finding the honesty to admit and show those realities ultimately comes down to trust. That’s what Strassner and Larsen’s chemistry delivers.
Bang Bang
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Similar to Old Henry, [Nelson] really sinks his teeth into the role to embody the gruff exterior while still maintaining a level of pathos that ensures he never alienates the audience.
Best Wishes To All
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A film that uses resources from horror and suspense films to develop a story that has much to say about the nature of human happiness and the selfishness inherent in many people who only think about themselves.
Chain Reactions
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …a must see for any fan of the film and may just convince those on the fence or who haven’t yet taken the plunge of its worth.
The Cut
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I’ve been a fan of Ellis for twenty years, but his attempts to infuse this men’s rights movement slog of a scree with energy via some nice visual flourishes isn’t enough. It’s just meathead, anti-mental health aggression.
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Sean Ellis’ The Cut is an intense and emotionally devastating boxing drama featuring a stellar performance by Orlando Bloom.
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Mark Hobin @ Fast Films Reviews
- Excerpt: Brings Alexandra Fuller’s memoir vividly to life, blending a child’s perspective with the sweeping, uncertain transformation of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe.
Frankenstein
Christopher Cross @ Asynchronous Media
Good Fortune
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: It’s a well-made directorial debut that shows a love for cinematic history and a unique sensibility to build upon it rather than simply homage. Communal entertainment with lighthearted surrealist fantasy and relatable everyman problems.
Hamnet
Christopher Cross @ Asynchronous Media
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: [The filmmakers] truly had a vision and worked tirelessly to give it life. It becomes a very emotional journey as a result. Always in the moment. Always placing impulse above contemplation.
Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Cinephiles and soundtrack lovers alike will feel like they’re in heaven.
Happyend
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Neo Sora seamlessly blends multiple genres – coming-of-age, high school rebellion and science fiction – in his futuristic look at how one group of friends in Tokyo react to both local and national oppression.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Add a killer score from Lia Ouyang Rusli and great visuals and Sora’s film absorbs you fully from the opening scene. Credit the teen actors too, though, since their chemistry and humor truly jump off the screen.
Looking Through Water
- Excerpt: “Looking Through Water” wants to tell us about the importance of uncluttered connections to the natural world and to each other, but too often it ignores its own advice.
Megadoc
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It only helped me better appreciate the final product: a failed, bombastic, and sometimes even ridiculous passion project, which at least was made by a human being who was looking for some truth in his story.
No Other Choice
Christopher Cross @ Asynchronous Media
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Park and company do a great job juggling all these threads into a coherent whole with fun connections that lead to hilarious misunderstandings and wild epiphanies insofar as how to better commit the crimes.
Orwell: 2+2=5
- Excerpt: Raoul Peck’s repeated usage of the author’s words to buttress his own hazily presented view of current events makes this a less rigorous and engaging work than anything about Orwell should be.
Palestine 36
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Whereas so many Hollywood examples reduce this region’s story to terrorism, Palestine 36 gives it the care necessary to remind us how that label is often used by oppressive forces to maintain their control.
Roofman
- Excerpt: A lively crime drama based on a true story.
The Threesome
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Hartman and Ogilby prove the has-beens moaning about how adhering to today’s social climate prevents them from making good comedies are lazy hacks.
The Thursday Murder Club
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: I know there’s more than one novel, so I wouldn’t mind seeing more of these films. “The Thursday Murder Club” is entertaining enough to make me want to see these characters investigate more and better cases.
Twinless
Mark Hobin @ Fast Films Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer-director and co-star James Sweeney’s fearless (and uncomfortable) dive into a deeply flawed man, but it’s Dylan O’Brien’s revelatory performance that steals the show.
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