U.S. Release Date: 2025-06-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Car Crashes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, Javier Bardem
Watching the film, you may not believe you are in a racing car but you will feel like you are doing more than passively sitting in a theater seat.
U.S. Release Date: 2025-06-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Nudity)
Genre: Horror/Science Fiction
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Alfie Williams, Jodie Comer, Aaron-Taylor Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Edvin Ryding, Chi Lewis-Parry, Jack O’Connell
Only the unevenness of the proceedings and the lack of a clean ending keep this from greatness.
U.S. Release Date: 2025-06-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Dean DeBlois
Cast: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Nick Frost
Represents solid family entertainment even if it feels like it is tracing over an existing pattern rather than developing something new.
U.S. Release Date: 2025-06-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nude Images)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Bryan Cranston, Tom Hanks, Riz Ahmed, Michael Cera, Mia Threapleton, Benedict Cumberbatch
Anderson has almost completely dispensed with a conventional storyline in service of a movie that delights in parodying seemingly anything and everything.
U.S. Release Date: 2025-05-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
Cast: Bill Barratt, Sally Hawkins, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips
A serious downer, with a nihilistic approach designed to infuse the viewer with a sense of growing unease without worrying about delivering a catharsis.
U.S. Release Date: 2025-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Henry Czerny, Angela Basset, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Greg Tarzan Davis, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, Shea Whigham
A no-holds-barred action-oriented epic that does not much care if it makes sense as long as viewers are amped-up and engaged.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2025-05-12
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Mature Themes)
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Vidal Peterson, Shawn Carson, Pam Grier, Royal Dano
The film is worth searching out, especially if one appreciates movies that craft a spell with a powerfully rendered setting and unconventional storytelling.
U.S. Release Date: 2025-05-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Jake Schreier
Cast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen, Geraldine Viswanathan
Bringing together the flotsam and jetsam of the MCU imparts the “back to basics” feel of Thunderbolts* with a welcome sense of freshness.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2025-05-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Feet)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bo Svenson, Sonny Chiba, Chiaki Kuriyama, Julie Dreyfus, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, David Carradine, Gordon Liu
Contains moments that can stand alongside the best of the Tarantino oeuvre but the overlong running time and general unevenness prevent it from achieving greatness.
U.S. Release Date: 2025-04-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Horror
Director: Ryan Coogler
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Li Jun Li, Delroy Lindo, Omar Benson Miller, Jayme Lawson, Wunmi Mosaku, Jack O’Connell, Miles Caton, Hailee Steinfeld, Yao
Warts and all, "Sinners" is a wholly original motion picture full of bravura moments, strong performances, and horror-appropriate gore and violence.