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: Oct. 24, 2025
Wide (United States)
Expanding (United States)
Blue Moon
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Director Richard Linklater sat on screenwriter Robert Kaplow’s (“Me and Orson Welles”) witty and moving script for ten years in order for Ethan Hawke to be the right age to play Hart and his gambit has resulted in his best work since 2014’s “Boyhood.”
- Excerpt: Frantic and layered, Blue Moon is as strong an acting display as it is a feat of writing and directing. With so many fascinating points to explore, it’s a movie that will only grow upon multiple viewings.
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: Is this the performance of Ethan Hawke’s career?
Limited (United States)
After the Hunt
Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Just because it’s disappeared from the headlines doesn’t lessen the importance of the #MeToo movement, but if After the Hunt was trying to revive it in some way, it fails in that ambition. Its star power is mostly wasted in a story that never seems as interested in its main idea as it should be.
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Bugonia
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: take away the element of surprise and what do you have left? Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons going toe to toe in compellingly contrasting performances. Still, having seen the original Korean film, “Bugonia” proved somewhat underwhelming…
Frankenstein
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation is faithful, flawed, and dazzling.
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: A gorgeous retelling of a classic tale about the monsters that dwell within us, Del Toro’s take on Frankenstein features a standout turn from Jacob Elordi but remains a middle of the pack effort from the beloved Gothic storyteller. Much like the creature in this story, desperately wanting to understand why it is here, the film lacks its own sense of purpose.
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Bhagwat Chapter One: Raakshas
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Eternity
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzrevuews.com
- Excerpt: Disarmingly clever.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Mary Bronstein (“Yeast”) plunges us into Linda’s psyche, an avalanche of escalating anxiety over the course of almost two hours that, thankfully, is frequently hilarious in its situations and Linda’s reactions to them, providing periodic release.
It Was Just an Accident
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a film about justice, revenge and accountability and the differing ways people move past trauma. It is also tinged with mystery, sadness and, surprisingly, humor and a little bit of joy…
The Love That Remains
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
The Man Who Saves the World?
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Kudos to Polsky for somehow wading through it all with a straight face and open mind because it means we can too. Something we forget in today’s world of celebrity “geniuses” is that actions always trump image.
The Mastermind
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: O’Connor has been building a varied body of work and this role may offer his best to date, the man’s enigmatic smile hinting at unjustified confidence until the noose begins to tighten.
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: An art theft goes south and the thief goes west in Kelly Reichardt’s new opus.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Reichardt writes the theft as a humorous series of missteps and inconveniences. O’Connor nails the hangdog expression of finding himself thrust into taking a hands-on approach to what he believed would be very hands-off.
Pets on a Train
- Excerpt: The voice talent and character design are second-tier, and there are too many characters. But the action scenes are exciting, and the pacing, along with its reassuring humor and some nice character arcs, makes it a mildly appealing watch.
River of Grass
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s an effective aesthetic choice insofar as showing just how much of what we see and experience is in fact manipulated by unseen forces. So much of what we know is actually what we’ve been told.
Romería
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Truth & Treason
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Truth & Treason is a strong dramatic film. It is a deeply moving portrait of a true profile in courage, a young man executed for speaking up and speaking out against tyranny.
What Does That Nature Say to You
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Who Killed the Montreal Expos?
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Yes, it is filled with resentment and frustration, and rightfully so. But it is also a love letter to the Expos, a team that – for a short while – brought pure joy to those that followed them.
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