New York City 2025 Commercial Releases
(Films seen by yours truly are in blue. Films walked out of by yours truly—always at 1/3 of the total running time—are in red. Films yours truly is currently on the fence about possibly seeing, or is definitely planning to see, or has been assigned to review in the near future, are in green. Films yours truly has sampled at least the first 10 minutes of are indicated by a + sign following the director's name.)
Week of 9 May
Ada—My Mother the Architect (Yael Melamede)The Ancestral Home (HuỲnh Lập)
Black Tea (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke)
Clown in a Cornfield (Eli Craig)
A Desert (Joshua Erkman)
Fight or Flight (James Madigan)
Friendship (Andrew DeYoung)
A Gilded Game (Herman Yau)
Going Down (Haydn Keenan) [1982]
#Single (Caarthick Raju)
Juliet & Romeo (Timothy Scott Bogart)
Lilly (Rachel Feldman)
Marcella (Peter Miller)
Money Kisses (Thu Trang)
Nonnas (Stephen Chbosky)
Sew Torn (Freddy Macdonald)
Shadow Force (Joe Carnahan)
Sharp Corner (Jason Buxton)
Stelios (Yorgos Tsemberopoulos)
Subham (Praveen Kandregula)
Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (Isaac Gale & Ryan Olson)
Trapped (Zhang Qi)
Watch the Skies (Crazy Pictures) [2022]
We Were Dangerous (Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu)
Week of 2 May
Bonjour Tristesse (Durga Chew-Bose)The Dumpling Queen (Andrew Lau)
Everything You Have Is Yours (Tatyana Tenenbaum)
HIT: The Third Case (Sailesh Kolanu)
Lavender Men (Lovell Holder)
Most People Die on Sundays (Iair Said)
Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)
Raid 2 (Raj Kumar Gupta)
Retro (Karthik Subbaraj)
Rosario (Felipe Vargas)
Salvable (Franklin & Marchetta)
The Surfer (Lorcan Finnegan)
Thunderbolts* (Jake Schreier)
Untold (Derick Cabrido, DGPI)
Vulcanizadora (Joel Potrykus)
Words of War (James Strong)
Week of 25 Apr
The Accountant 2 (Gavin O'Connor)Another Day in America (Emilio Mauro)
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang)
California King (Eli Stern)
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie (David Bushell)
Daagi (Shihab Shaheen)
Drop Dead City (Peter Yost & Michael Rohatyn)
Emergent City (Kelly Anderson & Jay Arthur Sterrenberg)
Ground Zero (Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskar)
Jimmy in Saigon (Peter McDowell) [2022]
Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman)
Mob Cops (Danny A. Abeckaser)
Neighborhood Watch (Duncan Skiles)
A Normal Family (Hur Jin-ho)
On Swift Horses (Daniel Minahan)
Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian (Joe List)
The Trouble With Jessica (Matt Winn)
Until Dawn (David F. Sandberg)
Yadang: The Snitch (Hwang Byeng-gug)
Week of 18 Apr
Arjun S/O Vyjayanthi (Praddeep Chilukuri)Big World (Yang Lina)
Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (Hiroyuki Hata)
The Innerview (Richard Beymer) [1973]
Invention (Courtney Stephens)
Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh (Karan Singh Tyagi)
The Legend of Ochi (Isaiah Saxon)
Light of the Setting Sun (Vicky Du)
MuMu (Sha Mo)
Nora (Anna Campbell)
1-800-ON-HER-OWN (Dana Flor)
The President's Wife (Léa Domenach)
Queens of Drama (Alexis Langlois)
ROB1N (Lawrence Fowler)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Sneaks (Rob Edwards & Chris Jenkins)
The Ugly Stepsister (Emilie Blichfeldt)
The Wedding Banquet (Andrew Ahn)
Week of 11 Apr
Akaal: The Unconquered (Gippy Grewal)The Amateur (James Hawes)
The Chosen: Last Supper—Part Three (Dallas Jenkins)
Direct Action (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell)
Drop (Christopher Landon)+
Good Bad Ugly (Adhik Ravichandran)
Gunslingers (Brian Skiba)
Home Sweet Home Rebirth (Alex & Steffen)
Jaat (Gopichandh Malineni)
The King of Kings (Seong-ho Jang)
Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound (Antony Crook)
One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin Macdonald)
Sacramento (Michael Angarano)
Sour Party (The Drextons)
The Teacher (Farah Nabulsi)
That They May Face the Rising Sun (Pat Collins)+
The Uninvited (Nadia Conners)
Warfare (Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland)
Worth the Fight (John Biffar)
Week of 4 Apr
Can't Look Away (Matthew O'Neill & Perri Peltz)The Chosen: Last Supper—Part Two (Dallas Jenkins)
Darkest Miriam (Naomi Jaye)
Eric LaRue (Michael Shannon)
Freaky Tales (Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden)
Gazer (Ryan J. Sloan)
Hell of a Summer (Finn Wolfhard & Billy Bryk)
Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
The Hermit of Treig (Lizzie MacKenzie) [2022]
Love Hotel (Shinji Sōmai) [1985]
The Luckiest Man in America (Samir Oliveros)
A Minecraft Movie (Jared Hess)
A Nice Indian Boy (Roshan Sethi)
Párvulos: Hijos del apocalipsis (Isaac Ezban)
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer (Tolga Karaçelik)
Saint Catherine (various)
Screamboat (Steven LaMorte)
Sikandar (A R Murugadoss)
When Fall Is Coming (François Ozon)+
Wild Goat Surf (Caitlyn Sponheimer)
William Tell (Nick Hamm)
Week of 28 Mar
Art for Everybody (Miranda Yousef)Audrey's Children (Ami Canaan Mann)
The Ballad of Wallis Island (James Griffiths)
The Chosen: Last Supper—Part 1 (Dallas Jenkins)
Crossroads (Andy Delaney)
Death of a Unicorn (Alex Scharfman)
The Encampments (Michael T. Workman & Kei Pritsker)
The Friend (Scott McGehee & David Siegel)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
Holy Cow (Louise Courvoisier)
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence (Varda Bar-Kar)
Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo Van Dijl)
L2: Empuraan (Prithviraj Sukumaran)
(Mad)² (Kalyan Shankar)
My Love Will Make You Disappear (Chad V. Vidanes)
The Penguin Lessons (Peter Cattaneo)
Secret Mall Apartment (Jeremy Workman)
Thank You Very Much (Alex Braverman)
Veera Dheera Sooran: Part - 2 (S.U. Arun Kumar)
Việt and Nam (Trương Ming Quý)
The Woman in the Yard (Jaume Collet-Serra)
A Working Man (David Ayer)
Week of 21 Mar
The Alto Knights (Barry Levinson)Always Have Always Will (Liu Jie)
Any Day Now (Eric Aronson)
Artiste (Ratan Rishi)
Ash (Flying Lotus)
The Assessment (Fleur Fortuné)+
Aum: The Cult at the End of the World (Ben Braun & Chiaki Yanagimoto)
Being Maria (Jessica Palud)
Bob Trevino Likes It (Tracie Laymon)
Court: State vs A Nobody (Ram Jagadeesh)
Disney's Snow White (Marc Webb)
Locked (David Yarovesky)
Magazine Dreams (Elijah Bynum)
McVeigh (Mike Ott)
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
Pintu Ki Pappi (Shiv Hare)
Week of 14 Mar
The Actor (Duke Johnson)Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
Borderline (Jimmy Warden)
The Day the Earth Blew Up (Pete Browngardt)
Dilruba (Viswa Karun)
The Diplomat (Shivam Nair)
The 8th Day (Alexandra Chando)
The 4 Rascals (Trấn Thành)
Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Eva Aridjis Fuentes)
The Last Supper (Mauro Borrelli)
Leila and the Wolves (Heiny Srour) [1984]
Meanwhile (Catherine Gund)
Mithde (Amberdeep Singh)
Nightshift (Robina Rose) [1981]
Novocaine (Dan Berk & Robert Olsen)
October 8 (Wendy Sachs)
Opus (Mark Anthony Green)
Papa (Philip Yung)
Throuple (Greyson Horst)
An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye)
Who by Fire (Philippe Lesage)
The World Will Tremble (Lior Geller)
Young Hearts (Anthony Schatteman)
Week of 7 Mar
Eephus (Carson Lund)The Electric State (Anthony & Joe Russo)
The Empire (Bruno Dumont)+
F Marry Kill (Laura Murphy)
The Falling Sky (Eryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha)
Housewife of the Year (Ciarán Cassidy)
In the Lost Lands (Paul W.S. Anderson)+
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho)
Night of the Zoopocalypse (Rodrigo Perez-Castro & Ricardo Curtis)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni)
The Poet (Felix Umarov)
Queen of the Ring (Ash Avildsen)
Rule Breakers (Bill Guttentag)
The Rule of Jenny Pen (James Ashcroft)
Seven Veils (Atom Egoyan)
There's Still Tomorrow (Paola Cortellesi)
Us and the Night (Audrey Lam)
We're All Gonna Die (Freddie Wong & Matt Arnold)
The Wild (Jessica Kozak)
You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro)
Week of 28 Feb
The Accidental Getaway Driver (Sing J. Lee)Brothers After War (Jake Rademacher)
The Golden Voice (Brandon Eric Kamin)
Laaj Sharanam (Kumar Kattel)
Last Breath (Alex Parkinson)
Mazaka (Trinadha Rao Nakkina)
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning (Kazuya Tsurumaki)
My Dead Friend Zoe (Kyle Hausmann-Stokes)
Riff Raff (Dito Montiel)
Superboys of Malegaon (Reema Kagti)
Week of 21 Feb
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (Molly Bernstein & Philip Dolin)The Bayou (Taneli Mustonen & Brad Watson)
Cleaner (Martin Campbell)
The Comeback Trail (George Gallo) [2020]
Compensation (Zeinabu irene Davis) [1999]
Dragon (Ashwath Marimuthu)
Ex Ex Lovers (JP Habac)
Ex-Husbands (Noah Pritzker)
Las Tres Sisters (Mar Novo)
Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants (Tsui Hark)
Love & Pop (Hideaki Anno) [1998]
The Monkey (Osgood Perkins)+
The Quiet Ones (Frederik Louis Hviid)
The Real Sister (Khương Ngọc)
The Unbreakable Boy (Jon Gunn)
UnBroken (Beth Lane)
Week of 14 Feb
Animated Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2025 (various)The Annihilation of Fish (Charles Burnett) [1999]
Captain America: Brave New World (Julius Onah)
Chhaava (Laxman Utekar)
Doc Program A: Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2025 (various)
Doc Program B: Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2025 (various)
Live Action Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2025 (various)
Ne Zha 2 (Jiaozi)
Notes on Displacement (Khaled Jarrar)
Paddington in Peru (Dougal Wilson)+
You, Me & Her (Dan Levy Dagerman)
Week of 7 Feb
Attack on Titan: The Last Attack (Yuichiro Hayashi)Becoming Led Zeppelin (Bernard MacMahon) [2021]
Bring Them Down (Christopher Andrews)+
Dark Nuns (Kwon Hyeok-jae)
The Fishing Place (Rob Tregenza)
Heart Eyes (Josh Ruben)
I Love You Forever (Cazzie David & Elisa Kalani)
Love Hurts (Jonathan Eusebio)
No Chains No Masters (Simon Moutaïrou)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (Soozie Eastman) [2018]
Paint Me a Road out of Here (Catherine Gund)
Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino)
Sensory Overload (Kiana Moore)
Vidaamuyarchi (Magizh Thirumeni)
When I'm Ready (Andrew Johnson)
Week of 31 Jan
Companion (Drew Hancock)+Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force (Wuershan)
Dark Match (Lowell Dean)
Detective Chinatown 1900 (Chen Sicheng & Dai Mo)
Deva (Rosshan Andrrews)
Dog Man (Peter Hastings)
Hit n Fun (Albert Kai-kwong Mak)
Love Me (Sam & Andy Zuchero)+
Marcello Mio (Christophe Honoré)
This Woman (Alan)
Time Passages (Kyle Henry)
Valiant One (Steve Barnett)
Week of 24 Jan
Brave the Dark (Damian Harris)The Colors Within (Naoko Yamada)
Dying (Michael Roemer) [1976]
Flight Risk (Mel Gibson)
Hitman 2 (Choi Won-sub)
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young) [1960]
Inheritance (Neil Burger)
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (Bruce David Klein)
Myth of Man (Jamin Winans)
Pilgrim, Farewell (Michael Roemer) [1982]
Presence (Steven Soderbergh)
Rose (Aurélie Saada) [2021]
Sky Force (Sandeep Kewlani & Abhishek Anil Kapur)
Week of 17 Jan
Alarum (Michael Polish)Autumn and the Black Jaguar (Gilles de Maistre)
Azaad (Abhishek Kapoor)
Bye Bye Love (Isao Fujisawa) [1974]
El heredero (Frank Perozo)
Grand Theft Hamlet (Pinny Grylls & Sam Crane)+
Left Behind (Anna Toomey)
Night Call (Michiel Blanchart)
One of Them Days (Lawrence Lamont)
Sankrathiki Vasthunam (Anil Ravipudi)
When We Free the World (Kevin Powell)
Wish You Were Here (Julia Stiles)
Wolf Man (Leigh Whannell)
Week of 10 Jan
Den of Thieves: Pantera (Christian Gudegast)Diane Warren: Relentless (Bess Kargman)
Eat the Night (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel)
Every Little Thing (Sally Aitken)
Fateh (Sonu Sood)
Finist. The First Warrior (Dmitriy Dyachenko)
Game Changer (Shankar)
The Last Showgirl (Gia Coppola)
Oceans Are the Real Continents (Tommaso Santambrogio)
Octopus With Broken Arms (Jacky Gan)
The Prosecutor (Donnie Yen)
Putin (Patryk Vega)
Turn Me On (Michael Tyburski)
Uninvited (Dan Villegas)
Week of 3 Jan
The Damned (Thordur Palsson)From Ground Zero (various)
Harbin (Woo Min-ho)
Honey Money Phony (Su Biao)
The Last Republican (Steve Pink)
Tel Visa (Shankar Ghimire)