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: Mar. 27, 2026
Wide (United States)
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
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Forbidden Fruits
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Limited (United States)
Alpha
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Alpha’ is well-written, well-acted, well-shot, well-scored, and has an serious emotional core… and yet, for some reason I can’t find it in my stony heart to unconditionally recommend it. The problem here is that, while ‘Titane’ succeeded because it was a weird movie that slowly developed a deep emotional appeal, ‘Alpha’ underwhelms because it starts as a humanist drama and then tacks on unnecessary surreal accoutrements.
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A muddled story weirdly free of shocks.
Fantasy Life
Chris Barsanti @ Slant Magazine
- Excerpt: ‘Fantasy Life’ Review: Amanda Peet Steals Matthew Shear’s Low-Key Directorial Debut
A Magnificent Life
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Sylvain Chomet employs his distinct animation style of hand drawn, exaggerated characterizations cast in autumnal nostalgia to bring decades of one of France’s most prolific literary figures to life.
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Delights the eye, but that’s about it.
2026 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
The Bride!
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Crime 101
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
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Project Hail Mary
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Wuthering Heights
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Dead Lover
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I’d be lying if I didn’t say my overall feeling was more appreciation than enjoyment. Its ingenuity, on-screen excitement, and comical depravity ensured that I was never at risk of stopping altogether, though.
The Dreadful
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
- Excerpt: A 15th century story about jealousy and suspicion.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Starts with a brilliant premise that crackles with possibility. But its clever time-bending setup ultimately falls apart in a weak conclusion.
Histórias do Vale Bom
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Vale a pena descobrir as histórias de um bairro de resistentes captadas pela câmara amável de José Luis Guerin. Um dos filmes descobertos no passado Festival de San Sebastián (embora exibido também no LEFFEST), Histórias do Vale Bom devolve aquele prazer de um cinema antropológico, direto, com verdade.
Kill Bill – The Whole Bloody Affair
Paulo Portugal @ Cinema7Arte [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Finalmente, o filme como foi projetado. Uma avassaladora obra-prima em formato de ‘revenge movie’, em 4h e meia de puro deleite e cinema de género.
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Finalmente, o filme como foi projetado. Uma avassaladora obra-prima em formato de ‘revenge movie’, em 4h e meia de puro deleite e cinema de género.
Marc by Sofia
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …this one is coming from shared experience and has the aesthetic of a scrapbook, memories and cultural signifiers laid out like fabric swatches on a designer’s work table.
Maria Vitória
Paulo Portugal @ Esquerda.net [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Estreia auspiciosa de Mário Patrocínio nas longas de ficção. Um registo potente que filma aquilo que não se vê.
Le Massacre de Gilles de Rais
Paulo Portugal (Cinema7Arte) @ Cinema7Arte [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É um exercício de risco e provocação, onde Juan Branco transforma um dos episódios mais sombrios da História num duelo íntimo de palavra, culpa e representação
Paulo Portugal (Insider.pt) @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Há um desafio de cinema a desvendar em Le Massacre de Gilles de Rais, assim mesmo, o título em francês, como desejava o autor, Juan Branco, no seu filme de estreia, depois da passagem, em Novembro, pelo LEFFEST.
Miroirs No. 3
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a most peculiar ghost story, a case of post-trauma shifting identities told with humor, heart and a dash of mystery…may have a light touch, but its psychology digs deep.
- Excerpt: Miroirs No. 3 coats its small-scale tragedy in the realistic emotional debris of avoidance, obsession, and transference.
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A scrappy, low-fi comedy very much on its own wavelength.
Palestine ’36
- Excerpt: The only feature film to shoot in Palestine in the past two years, while having to stop and start production numerous times due to the ongoing genocide, Palestine ‘36 is remarkable just by virtue of existing. The fourth feature from writer-director Annemarie Jacir, the film follows a sprawling ensemble of characters across rural and urban Palestine as frustration with colonial rule, including the growing takeover of Palestinian land by Zionist settlers, eventually erupts in armed rebellion.
Post Truth
Paulo Portugal @ Cinema7Arte [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: E depois veio “Post Truth”… a devolver-nos a potência do cinema e confrontar-nos com a manipulação da verdade. Poderoso documento este sobre o não muito admirável mundo em que vivemos.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: A looser, more scraggly undertaking than the first entry…While the overall result is still entertaining in the action and dark comedy, its cohesion is more muddled.
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Competent but unremarkable, ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ is a horror-comedy sequel that’s mostly just a forgettable extension of the original’s eat-the-satanic-rich premise, expanding the mythology without recapturing the spark that made it sing. Samara Weaving remains the MVP, and the cast is easily the film’s strongest asset, but it’s not enough to elevate a sequel that never quite justifies going down the aisle once more.
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s a bloodbath, and one that will leave you wanting a third instalment (which will surely come out in a few years). If Samara Weaving returns, I’ll be back in the cinema.
Revelations of Divine Love
- Excerpt: An anchoress who withdrew from secular society to lead an isolated life within a cell attached to St. Julian’s Church in Norwich, England, Julian spent her days devoted to writing and prayer; little else is known about her, including whether her given name was indeed Julian or whether she took the name of the church where she lived. Nonetheless, she and her work come to vivid life in filmmaker Caroline Golum’s sophomore feature, which boasts a highly stylized, homespun aesthetic that is guaranteed to charm you.
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s the exact opposite of what many contemporary productions aspire to be, which is why I’m sure some audiences won’t be able to even finish it.
The Serpent’s Skin
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Mackay displays a similar sensibility to “I Saw the TV Glow’s” Jane Schoenbrun with themes of finding one’s identity, a nostalgia for 90’s television and love of shocking pink.
Slanted
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Solo Mio
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Simple, sweet and direct, Solo Mio charms the viewer with its story of love lost and found.
Sound of Falling
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Mascha Schilinski’s generational family trauma reverberates through one German farmhouse, cinematographer Fabian Gamper’s camera the ghostly presence that glides around it as editor Evelyn Rack seamlessly weaves back and forth among different eras…
Touch Me
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Those impulses are as much a drug as narcotics, pharmaceuticals, and space slime. The emotionally parasitic cycle of relationships mirroring the actual parasitic cycle of an alien’s ambitions. The stranger things get, the more real the message becomes.
Tow
Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Tow will be a disappointment for anyone hoping to see more great stuff from Byrne. While she remains a fine actor, her performance and the story as a whole are nowhere near the level shown in her previous film.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The scene where Amanda does share with the group is the standout moment because the whole thing is working towards that release, but also because Byrne imbues it with an authenticity that rises above the obvious pathway there.
Two Prosecutors
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The film’s progression through bureaucratic black holes and intentional tactics meant to wear down the Soviet Union’s last honorable citizen is thus toeing the line between farce and thriller. We’re watching in a constant state of unease.
2025 Films
Frankenstein
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KPop Demon Hunters
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100 Sunset
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Overall, despite some issues that could also be attributed to inexperience, “100 Sunset” emerges as a competent work that creates empathy for its protagonist while highlighting a society that rarely appears in cinema.
Exit 8
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
Hallan
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Overall, there are many admirable traits in “Hallan” but also a number of clear faults. The balance ultimately leans toward the former, though not quite enough to deem the movie great, despite the fact that the potential was certainly there.
Lanaya
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: In the end, the overall result leans toward the positive. At the same time, it becomes evident that Capistrano would likely have benefited from a larger budget and stronger post production resources in order to fully realize his ideas.
Morte Cucina
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Morte Cucina” is an excellent work, one that takes food into paths rarely explored with such eloquence, and another testament to Ratanaruang’s prowess as a director.
Palestine 36
Paulo Portugal @ esquerda.net [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O relevante e oportuno filme de Annemarie Jacir ilustra o sofrimento dos palestinianos na década de 30, antes da Nakba, e mostra-nos como a sua vitalidade se mantém intacta quase um século depois.
Paulo Portugal @ [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O relevante e oportuno filme de Annemarie Jacir ilustra o sofrimento dos palestinianos na década de 30, antes da Nakba, e mostra-nos como a sua vitalidade se mantém intacta quase um século depois.
Riefenstahl
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O documentário sobre a realizadora favorita de Hitler chegou a Portugal. E agora? Em Riefenstahl, o cineasta, encenador e psicólogo alemão, Andres Veiel coloca-nos diante o dilema ou a fronteira ténue que separa a arte da política.
2024 Films
Jab Khuli Kitaab
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
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