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: Dec. 26, 2025
Wide (United States)
Song Sung Blue
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Expanding (United States)
Marty Supreme
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Limited (United States)
The Plague
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: an unsettling portrait of the cruelty inflicted by children trying to carve out their positions in society and Polinger’s stylish debut makes him a filmmaker to watch.
The Testament of Ann Lee
- Excerpt: The Testament of Ann Lee is a complicated text, but it is a passionately beautiful movie that’s dance and song translates everything immaculately.
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: It may well be one of the most tedious films of the year.
2025 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Bugonia
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Die My Love
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Elio
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Hamnet
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The Housemaid
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Lurker
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Predator: Badlands
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Rental Family
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Sentimental Value
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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Anniversary
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: “Anniversary” is a thoughtful warning of extremism, government overreach and surveillance similar to George Orwell’s “1984” but taking place in current America. Diane Lane’s performance is worthy of an Oscar nod and the screenplay deserves a social-political commentary award.
The Balconettes
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Cover-Up
- Excerpt: As Hersh notes in Cover-Up, co-directed by Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, “We’re a culture of enormous violence. You can’t have a country that does it and looks the other way.” In Hersh’s view, the press is not subject to censorship so much as self-censorship; they’re all too aware that things are being covered up, but they don’t bother to dig any deeper, too afraid of pissing off the powers that be.
David
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: David isn’t just a first-rate animated Biblical movie, it’s a first-rate animated movie overall.
Happy and You Know It
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: So sit yourself down, watch the film, and sing along. Before long, you’ll definitely be happy and you will definitely know it.
Hedda
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Hedda is never more compelling than when [Thompson and Hoss] are going toe-to-toe with every barb holding the extra context of an ever-present history forever etched in their faces.
Influencers
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Influencers is even more dark fun than Influencer, particularly because of how it portrays identity in an increasingly volatile and devious digital world.
John Candy: I Like Me
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Kim Novak’s Vertigo
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Meat Kills
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Meat Kills is over the top in its depiction of militant vegans, yet reflects a deeper societal rift related to how cultural discourse has divided into extremes on all sides of politics.
No More Time
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: No More Time envisions a pandemic in which human behaviour is the ultimate form of destruction.
Orwell: 2+2=5
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: There is so much color and calamity about Orwell that affected his writing that Peck left out. But he had to focus on his thesis, that Orwell’s warnings about authoritarianism in “1984” and “Animal Farm” have been actualized. Peck contends that the time has finally come – 1984 is now.
The Perfect Neighbor
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: “The Perfect Neighbor,” as Susan describes herself, is an important new way to publish the truth in a documentary and a provocative subject to investigate.
Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Tusshar Sasi @ Filmy Sasi
Sirât
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Para muita gente a sua aparente simplicidade vai fazer dizer que não tencionam ver novamente. Outros, vão assistir de forma quase religiosa. Percebe-se ambas as perspectivas.
Something of a Monster
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Something of a Monster deals with two women who are so depressed by loss, whether figurative or literal, to the point they’re driven to psychological extremes.
The SpongeBob Movie: Search For Squarepants
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: Hellzapoppin’ glory!
This Ordinary Thing
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Não nos repete o que já sabemos à exaustão. Não nos conta a história de milhares. Conta alguns daqueles que fizeram a diferença, sem procurar mérito ou fama.
Train Dreams
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Robert is so precious because he takes responsibility for what happens in his life. Even though he is not always the force behind the bad things, they still haunt him. He is not a hero, but an everyman. The film will impact you because deep inside, he is one of us.
Visions
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O filme foi um desafio estético. Paisagens deslumbrantes, efeitos visuais perfeitos. Só peca pela extenuante jornada mental.
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The role of films like The Voice of Hind Rajab is therefore to remind everyone that the work does matter. It exposes truths so that the next tragedy might be prevented.
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É um filme de qualidade profissional e marcante que a Tunísia faz muito bem em submeter aos Oscares como o seu nomeado, numa tentativa de Kaouther Ben Hania repetir a façanha do seu filme anterior que ficou nomeado como Melhor Documentário.
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