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: May 9, 2025
Wide (United States)
Fight or Flight
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Limited (United States)
Friendship
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: tackles male friendship with a cringe comedy pairing one man who hides his insecurities with another whose confidence is misplaced…can be a little scattershot, but when it hits its mark it’s glorious.
- Excerpt: Throughout filmmaker Andrew DeYoung’s Bizarro version of I Love You, Man, a blend of abject absurdity, committed unpleasantness, and straightforward slapstick keeps the sporadic laughs coming.
Henry Johnson
- Excerpt: The film is more hole than bullet; though it’s still thrilling to hear actors fire out David Mamet’s heated arguments, when the dust clears from the film’s dense conversations, what remains is hollow.
Sharp Corner
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The result is frustrating, an intriguing concept hampered by far-fetched scenarios and a bizarrely off putting performance from Ben Foster.
Watch the Skies
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: This 2022 Swedish film is being released in U.S. theaters as the first feature to use Flawless’s Truesync AI dubbing process, which not only provides translation, but syncs the actors’ lips to the new language…a fun romp
2025 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Thunderbolts*
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Another Simple Favor
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Instead of exploring new avenues and taking these characters to unexpected places, this felt like a lavish yet watered down version of what worked last time.
Costao
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Henry Fonda for President
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
- Excerpt: A fantastic unconventional documentary on the iconic movie actor Henry Fonda.
Holy Night: Demon Hunters
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The story itself is hardly groundbreaking, but the leading trio have a fun rapport that I wouldn’t mind watching again. It’s only real knock preventing its popcorn fare’s advancement from “familiar” to “exciting” is that it inherently feels incomplete.
Salvable
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Salvable is always at its best when Kebbell and the younger Cassidy are together. It’s a story ripe for abstract lyricism told via linear literalism. Exciting potential undercut by familiar execution.
The Surfer
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Cage is nothing less than watchable, but seeing his character go from one unfortunate circumstance to another was exhausting.
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: It is the kind of film for which Nicolas Cage was gifted to us by the universe. If for no other reason, it is more than worth seeing just to bask in the mannerist magnificence of a performance rooted in reality but transcending the bonds of verisimilitude.
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: another tale of Australian macho intimidation, one which director Lorcan Finnegan has stylized into something like the “Beach Blanket Bingo” version of “Wake in Fright”…It’s an offbeat approach and for a while it works…
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The Surfer is about torturing Nic Cage until all pretense evaporates to leave his purely primal instincts in charge. Sell [his] soul for the dreams society indoctrinated him to achieve or realize no “reward” is worth relinquishing his humanity.
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