August 10, 2025

Weapons

★★★☆☆

129 min | R | August 8, 2025 | New Regency Pictures

Zach Cregger follows Barbarian with an ambitious mystery horror about seventeen children who vanish simultaneously. The structure is bold. The payoff is muddled.

Freakier Friday

★★★★☆

98 min | PG | August 8, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan return for another body swap. Nisha Ganatra directs with warmth and precision. This is how you make a legacy sequel that honors what came before.

August 3, 2025

The Naked Gun

★★★★☆

85 min | PG-13 | August 1, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Akiva Schaffer reboots Police Squad with Liam Neeson playing Frank Drebin Jr. The deadpan absurdity translates perfectly. This is what comedy reboots should be.

The Bad Guys 2

★★★★☆

104 min | PG | August 1, 2025 | DreamWorks Animation

Pierre Perifel returns with a heist sequel that introduces the Bad Girls and doubles down on what made the first film work. Fast, funny, and surprisingly smart.

July 27, 2025

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

★★★★☆

146 min | PG-13 | July 25, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Matt Shakman sets the Fantastic Four in a retro-futuristic 1960s and remembers these are scientists first, superheroes second. Pedro Pascal leads an ensemble that actually feels like family.

The Home

★★☆☆☆

97 min | R | July 25, 2025 | Lionsgate

James DeMonaco sends Pete Davidson to a haunted retirement home for mandatory community service. The premise is better than the execution.

July 20, 2025

Eddington

★★★★☆

185 min | R | July 18, 2025 | A24

Ari Aster makes a western about a small-town standoff that spirals into apocalyptic violence. Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal destroy each other. This is controlled chaos.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

★★☆☆☆

111 min | R | July 18, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson reboots the slasher franchise with meta commentary and returning legacy characters. The film knows what it is and cannot transcend that knowledge.

Smurfs

★★☆☆☆

92 min | PG | July 18, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Chris Miller reboots the Smurfs with an all-star voice cast led by Rihanna. The film chooses chaos over charm and drowns in frantic energy that never coheres.

July 13, 2025

Superman

★★★★☆

129 min | PG-13 | July 11, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

James Gunn reboots Superman with sincerity and optimism. David Corenswet embodies the character without irony or apology. This is what superhero films should be.

July 5, 2025

Jurassic World Rebirth

★★★☆☆

134 min | PG-13 | July 2, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Gareth Edwards reboots Jurassic World with a new cast and familiar formula. Scarlett Johansson hunts dinosaurs. The film delivers competent spectacle without surprise or vision.

June 29, 2025

M3GAN 2.0

★★☆☆☆

120 min | PG-13 | June 27, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Gerard Johnstone trades horror for action-comedy and the shift destroys what made M3GAN work. The killer doll becomes a superhero and the satire becomes noise.

June 22, 2025

28 Years Later

★★★★☆

119 min | R | June 20, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to the Rage virus twenty-eight years later. Britain is sealed off. The infected have evolved. So have the survivors.

Elio

★★★★☆

101 min | PG | June 20, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Pixar sends a space-obsessed misfit into the cosmos and remembers what made their early films special. This is heartfelt without being manipulative.

June 15, 2025

Materialists

★★★★☆

116 min | R | June 13, 2025 | A24

Celine Song follows Past Lives with a romantic comedy about money, self-worth, and modern dating. Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal navigate love as transaction.

How to Train Your Dragon

★★★★☆

124 min | PG | June 13, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Dean DeBlois remakes his own animated masterpiece in live-action and discovers what works and what doesn’t. The dragon is perfect. The humans are adequate.

June 8, 2025

Ballerina

★★★★☆

124 min | R | June 6, 2025 | Lionsgate

Ana de Armas enters the Wick universe and proves she can carry an action franchise. Len Wiseman directs with brutal efficiency. The film earns its place in the world of professional killers.

June 1, 2025

Karate Kid: Legends

★★★☆☆

135 min | PG-13 | May 30, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio team up to train a new kid. Ben Wang is the breakout. The film delivers exactly what nostalgia promises and nothing more.

May 25, 2025

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

★★★★☆

170 min | PG-13 | May 23, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Tom Cruise says goodbye to Ethan Hunt in the longest Mission: Impossible film. Christopher McQuarrie directs the final mission with scope and sentiment in equal measure.

Lilo & Stitch

★★★★☆

112 min | PG | May 23, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Dean Fleischer Camp remakes Lilo & Stitch with live actors and a CGI alien. The film captures the heart of the original without trying to improve what already worked.

May 18, 2025

Final Destination: Bloodlines

★★★★★

110 min | R | May 16, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein resurrect Final Destination and discover what the franchise always had in it. This is precision horror filmmaking disguised as crowd-pleasing spectacle.

May 4, 2025

Thunderbolts*

★★★★★

126 min | PG-13 | May 2, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Jake Schreier assembles Marvel’s rejects and outcasts into a team movie that remembers character matters. Florence Pugh and Lewis Pullman anchor the best MCU film in years.

April 27, 2025

The Accountant 2

★★★★☆

132 min | R | April 25, 2025 | Amazon MGM Studios

Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal team up as autistic hitman brothers investigating a Treasury murder. Gavin O’Connor finds the sequel the first film was reaching for.

Until Dawn

★★★☆☆

103 min | R | April 25, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

David F. Sandberg adapts the horror video game with an original story set in the same universe. The practical effects work. The time loop premise wears thin.

April 25, 2025

Sinners

★★★★☆

138 min | R | April 18, 2025 | Warner Bros.

Ryan Coogler invents a new genre and dares you to look away. You won’t.

April 20, 2025

The Legend of Ochi

★★★★☆

99 min | PG | April 18, 2025 | A24

Isaiah Saxon directs his first feature and builds a fantasy world with tactile beauty and emotional stakes. Helena Zengel anchors a story about fear and connection.

April 6, 2025

A Minecraft Movie

★★★☆☆

101 min | PG-13 | April 4, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Jared Hess adapts Minecraft into a family adventure that understands its audience better than its critics. Jack Black and Jason Momoa sell the absurdity completely.

March 30, 2025

Death of a Unicorn

★★☆☆☆

107 min | R | March 28, 2025 | A24

Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega accidentally kill a unicorn and corporate greed ensues. A24 tries to make a satire about pharmaceutical exploitation. The tone never settles.

A Working Man

★★★☆☆

116 min | R | March 28, 2025 | Amazon MGM Studios

Jason Statham plays a construction worker with a lethal past forced back into action. David Ayer directs. The formula is familiar but the execution is solid.

March 23, 2025

The Alto Knights

★★☆☆☆

122 min | R | March 21, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Robert De Niro plays two 1950s mob bosses in a turf war. Barry Levinson directs. Neither of them finds anything new in the well-worn genre they helped define.

Snow White

★☆☆☆☆

109 min | PG | March 21, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Disney remakes Snow White with CGI dwarfs and flattened fairytale logic. The modernization rings hollow. The performances feel constrained. The whole enterprise misses the point.

March 16, 2025

Opus

★★☆☆☆

103 min | R | March 14, 2025 | A24

John Malkovich plays a reclusive pop star who invites journalists to his compound for a sinister plan. Ayo Edebiri tries to ground the chaos. The film can’t decide what it wants to be.

Black Bag

★★★★☆

93 min | R | March 14, 2025 | Focus Features

Soderbergh makes another spy thriller because he can. Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play married intelligence agents who might be betraying each other. Sleek, cold, efficient.

Novocaine

★★★☆☆

110 min | R | March 14, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Jack Quaid plays a bank employee who can’t feel pain and has to rescue his kidnapped coworker. The premise is better than the execution but Quaid sells it completely.

March 8, 2025

Mickey 17

★★★★★

137 min | R | March 7, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Bong Joon Ho makes a sci-fi satire about disposable labor and corporate exploitation. Robert Pattinson plays the same man dying over and over. This is what cinema should be.

March 2, 2025

Last Breath

★★★★☆

93 min | PG-13 | February 28, 2025 | Peacock

Alex Parkinson remakes his own 2019 documentary as a survival thriller. Woody Harrelson leads a rescue effort hundreds of feet below the ocean. Taut, efficient, terrifying.

February 23, 2025

The Monkey

★★★★☆

98 min | R | February 21, 2025 | Neon

Osgood Perkins adapts Stephen King’s cursed toy monkey story and leans fully into horror-comedy chaos. Theo James plays twin brothers haunted by random death. It works.

The Unbreakable Boy

★★★☆☆

109 min | PG | February 21, 2025 | Pure Flix

Jon Gunn adapts a true story about a boy with brittle-bone disease and autism who transforms his family. Zachary Levi tries. The film is earnest to a fault.

February 17, 2025

Captain America: Brave New World

★★★☆☆

118 min | PG-13 | February 14, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Anthony Mackie officially takes up the shield and the MCU delivers its most middling entry yet. Competent, forgettable, and overstuffed with setup for movies nobody asked for.

February 16, 2025

Paddington in Peru

★★★★☆

106 min | PG | February 14, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Paddington goes to Peru and the franchise maintains its improbable winning streak. Dougal Wilson steps in for Paul King and delivers exactly what’s needed.

February 9, 2025

Heart Eyes

★★★★☆

97 min | R | February 7, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Josh Ruben makes a Valentine’s Day slasher that understands the genre and executes with precision. Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding sell the premise completely.

Bring Them Down

★★★★☆

105 min | R | February 7, 2025 | Mubi

Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan destroy each other over land, livestock, and pride in rural Ireland. No heroes. No easy answers. Just escalation and consequence.

Love Hurts

★★☆☆☆

83 min | R | February 7, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Ke Huy Quan plays a retired hitman whose brother wants him dead. Ariana DeBose shows up as the ex-partner. The film is eighty-three minutes and feels longer.

February 3, 2025

Companion

★★★★★

97 min | R | January 31, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Drew Hancock’s directorial debut is a nasty, clever thriller that earns its twists and never apologizes. Sophie Thatcher continues her winning streak.

February 2, 2025

Valiant One

★★☆☆☆

87 min | R | January 31, 2025 | Lionsgate

A military helicopter crashes in North Korea. The survivors must escape. You have seen this movie a dozen times and those versions were not good either.

Dog Man

★★★★☆

89 min | PG | January 31, 2025 | DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks adapts Dav Pilkey’s graphic novel with genuine respect for the source material and young audiences. Smart, fast, and surprisingly heartfelt.

January 28, 2025

The Brutalist

★★★★★

215 min | R | January 24, 2025 | A24

Brady Corbet makes a three-hour-and-thirty-five-minute epic about architecture, ambition, and the cost of artistic vision in America. Every minute earns its place.

January 27, 2025

Presence

★★★★★

84 min | R | January 24, 2025 | Neon

Soderbergh shoots a haunted house movie from the ghost’s point of view. The formal experiment works. The emotional core lands. This is what mastery looks like.

January 26, 2025

Flight Risk

★★☆☆☆

91 min | R | January 24, 2025 | Lionsgate

Mel Gibson directs Mark Wahlberg in a contained thriller that never finds a reason to exist. Ninety-one minutes feels long.

January 20, 2025

One of Them Days

★★★★★

97 min | R | January 17, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Lawrence Lamont directs his first feature. Syreeta Singleton writes her first screenplay. They deliver a comedy that feels lived-in and urgent. Hollywood needs more of this.