MICHAEL, Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson, 2026. ph: Glen Wilson / © Lionsgate / Courtesy Everett Collection
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. 24, 2026
Wide (United States)
Desert Warrior
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Fuze
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Michael
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Over Your Dead Body
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Expanding (United States)
Mother Mary
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: It would appear that writer/director David Lowery has watched Peter Strickland’s “In Fabric,” a fellow A24 release, one time too many.
Limited (United States)
I Swear
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Davidson’s story is an important one, a call for tolerance and understanding of a syndrome that may not be easy to be around, unleashing uninformed abuse, but one which also has no known cure
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Touches your heart and opens your eyes.
Omaha
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Cole Webley makes his feature debut and all the right moves with things both said and unsaid in Robert Machoian’s screenplay, using the wide open landscape of the American West to present the death of the American Dream in the most heartbreaking terms.
2026 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
Faces of Death
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Forbidden Fruits
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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
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Normal
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Amrum
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Because it’s not just about Nanning breaking free to acknowledge a better way. It’s also the reality that he must now carry [his parents’] mistakes with him forever.
Ballistic
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: That’s where Ballistic succeeds most: guaranteeing we know Nance’s actions are a projection. They’re the product of self-loathing and a belief that she’s no longer worthy of friendship, love, or empathy.
Blue Heron
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Blue Heron isn’t an easy watch by any sense of the word, but it’s an important one to reduce the stigma associated with the torment of people like Jeremy and the anguish of those who love them.
The Christophers
Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Soderbergh’s last three films — Presence, Black Bag, and now The Christophers — have nothing in common other than the expert filmmaker helming all of them. When you can make a ghost story, a spy film, and a small film about artists equally interesting, you know you’re doing something right.
- Excerpt: McKellan and Coel have a crackling chemistry and play off each other, his dancing around, deflecting, his trying to be shocking, her steady intelligence.
- Excerpt: McKellan and Coel have a crackling chemistry and play off each other, his dancing around, deflecting, his trying to be shocking, her steady intelligence. And it reflects a very deep understanding of the world of art, the people who create it, struggling to realize their visions — to capture them, in both senses of the word.
- Excerpt: McKellan and Coel have a crackling chemistry and play off each other, his dancing around, deflecting, his trying to be shocking, her steady intelligence. And it reflects a very deep understanding of the world of art, the people who create it, struggling to realize their visions — to capture them, in both senses of the word.
City Wide Fever
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Everything and nothing make logical sense. There’s a nice commentary on fandom in this notion because it reveals just how blind we become to evidence that refutes subjects we hold onto so religiously.
Do Deewane Seher Mein
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Eagles of the Republic
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I was riveted throughout because I was desperate to find out what was actually going on. Saleh isn’t interested in delving into the big picture. He’s concerned with the characters and their impulses, flaws, and humanity.
Erupcja
- Excerpt: Erupcja captures the fleeting magic of vacationing in a foreign land and wanting it to somehow last forever…even though if it did, it wouldn’t be very magical anymore.
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: [McKenzie is] an entertainer who couldn’t ignore an obviously predatory scheme enriching the rich with the life savings of the poor. So, he entertains us with the rabbit hole he fell through to prove it.
Exit 8
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A subway corridor becomes a looping maze of dread. It’s a minimalist nightmare where every step forward could be a mistake.
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Lorne
- Excerpt: We have to keep coming back to Michaels, who is not introspective beyond saying how much he loves nature or analytic about what does and does not work in the show (we see him re-arrange the order of the sketches but we don’t know anything about why).
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
- Excerpt: Lightweight documentary on Lorne Michaels.
Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe
- Excerpt: Even two of China’s most beloved exports, Jackie Chan and an adorable panda cub, cannot save the Chinese-language “Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe” from being a bit of a slog.
Sebastian Zavala @ LoudAndClearReviews.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A “comedic” sequel that manages to be even worse than its questionable predecessor.
The Ties That Bind Us
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The 2026 César winner for Best Film…is a moving, deeply human example of the old adage ‘it takes a village to raise a child.’
2025 Films
Dust Bunny
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Weapons
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ChaO
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Today, more than ever, when they want to shove generative AI down our throats, it’s important to give these kinds of productions a chance, clearly designed and animated by humans, and with a lot of effort.
Nighttime Sounds
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Nighttime Sounds” emerges as a realistic and visually evocative exploration of rural life, memory, and the unseen forces that shape human experience. By merging social realism with elements of the supernatural, Zhang Zhongchen crafts a narrative that resonates on both an emotional and symbolic level. The final moments, with their abrupt conclusion and lingering imagery, leave a lasting impression of histories being quietly buried, yet never entirely erased, encapsulating the film’s central concerns with remarkable subtlety.
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