The arrival of another weekend means one thing: new movies are available to watch in a theater near you.
This weekend’s (March 21 to 23) big release is Disney’s live-action remake of the film that started it all for the House of House – that being Snow White. You’ll have to read on to see if it’s worth watching in cinemas worldwide, though.
Not fussed on seeing another of Disney’s remakes? Don’t worry, there’s plenty more big-screen entertainment to catch this weekend, or keep your eye on in the weeks and months to come. From James Gunn’s Superman movie and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, to a whole host of other genre fare, my guide on 2025’s most exciting new movies is not to be missed. So, read on!
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New movies: March
Snow White
Release date: out now (worldwide)
The latest Disney animated flick to get the live-action treatment, Snow White stars Rachel Zegler as the eponymous character and Gal Gadot as the film’s iconic Evil Stepmother.
The titular role seems tailormade for someone of Zegler’s talents, but there’s a very unsettling ‘uncanny valley’ vibe to this flick’s take on the story’s instantly recognizable seven dwarves, who Snow White meets and befriends.
I fully expected one of March’s new movies to fall into the “it’s okay, but was a remake really necessary?” category of reimagined Disney classics. And, based on its 46% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes (RT), that appears to be the case.
The Alto Knights
Release date: out now (worldwide)
Oscar winner Robert de Niro and gangster movies seem to go hand-in-hand these days. The forthcoming arrival of another one of these films – The Alto Knights – shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of us, then. What is a bit of a shock, though, is how critics have reacted to it; The Alto Knights sitting (at the time of this article’s latest update) on a paltry 36% RT critical rating.
Directed by fellow Academy Award prize holder Barry Levinson, the period crime drama sees de Niro tackle two roles in notorious gangsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. Once the best of friends, the pair now vie for control of New York’s streets after a series of betrayals, and neither Mafia boss will back down without winning the ever-escalating turf war that reshaped New York’s criminal underbelly throughout the 20th century.
Novocaine
Release date: out now (US and Australia); March 28 (UK)
The Boys star Jack Quaid, who recently wowed audiences in Warner Bros’ creepy romantic thriller Companion, has returned to the big screen with Novocaine, which has been positively received by fans (87%) and critics (83%) alike on RT.
In it, Quaid plays Nate, a seemingly ordinary guy whose crush (played by Amber Midthunder) is kidnapped one day. Nate, though, is hiding a secret – he can’t feel pain. So, in a bid to rescue Midthunder’s character, he embarks on a darkly comedic and gore-filled quest through the criminal underworld, and potentially win her affections.
Death of a Unicorn
Release date: March 28 (US); April 4 (UK); April 10 (Australia)
The second A24-produced film to arrive in March (in the US, anyway), this film sees Wednesday actor Jenna Ortega team up with Paul Rudd, Will Poulter, Anthony Carrigan, Richard E. Grant, and other famous faces for a dark comedy-fantasy horror that sounds as surreal as it is terrifying.
In it, Ortega and Rudd play Ridley and Elliot, a daughter-father duo who accidentally hit a unicorn on route to a crisis summit meeting with Elliot’s boss Odell Leopold (Grant). Long story short: the Leopold family seize the animal’s corpse, discover the wonderful medical properties it contains – and then the unicorn’s blood-thirsty mate turns up seeking revenge on those who harmed it. One of this month’s new movies I was really hyped for but, unless its 63% RT critical score improves, it might be another swing and a miss from A24.
The Penguin Lessons
Release date: March 28 (US); April 17 (Australia); April 18 (UK)
Oscar nominee Steve Coogan fronts this Lionsgate dramady that takes its inspiration from Tom Michell’s 2016 memoir.
Here, Coogan portrays an 19th century English migrant, who heads to Argentina during a particularly turbulent time in the South American nation’s history for job purposes. There, he unexpectedly adopts a penguin, which transforms his outlook on life. Given the competition it’ll be up against in March and April, one that’s likely to be nothing more than a small hit.
A Working Man
Release date: March 27 (Australia); March 28 (US and UK)
Whenever you’re a fan of his or not, there’s n denying that Jason Statham films make for easy and at-times accidentally amusing flicks. His latest movie, titled A Working Man, looks like it’ll continue that long-running tradition, too.
Statham plays Levon Cade, a man who trades in a life as a black op to live a simpler life as a… construction worker. However, when his boss’ daughter is kidnapped by human traffickers, Cade sets out to find and rescue her using his unique skillset.
New movies: April
A Minecraft Movie
Release date: April 3 (Australia); April 4 (US and UK)
As the proliferation of video game movie adaptations continues, Warner Bros. – in association with Minecraft creator Mojang and its parent company Microsoft – are, surprise surprise, making a Minecraft movie. And, well, it’s called just that: A Minecraft Movie.
The trio are going all-out to make it the next big, erm, big-screen videogame movie franchise, too. Starring Jack Black as the series’ iconic mascot Steve, it tells the story of how he discovered the franchise’s Overworld – and, when four human misfits (played by Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastien Eugene Hansen) also find it, they must navigate the Overworld together to find their way home.
The film’s first teaser, which arrived last September, had us all asking if what’s been crafted looks beautiful or horrifying. Its final trailer, which you can watch above, suggests it won’t be as garish as I first thought – well, apart from those terrifying-looking villagers, anyway…
The Amateur
Release date: April 10 (Australia); April 11 (US and UK)
Rami Malek’s next silver screen offering comes in the form of this espionage thriller. In it, he plays Charlie, a brilliant but introverted CIA operative who goes rogue after his wife is killed during a London terrorist attack. So begins a cat and mouse game as his superiors try to stop Charlie from becoming a vigilante as he carries out all manner of dangerous missions (albeit with his limited ‘in the field’ skillset) as he enacts revenge on those who murdered his beloved.
The Amateur sounds pretty derivative from a plot perspective, but its high-stakes action, drama, and spy-based sensibilities should ensure it’s one of April’s new movies that performs well at the global box office.
Drop
Release date: April 11 (US and UK); April 17 (Australia)
Described as a mystery-thriller, Drop stars Meghann Fahy as Violet, a widowed mom who meets up with Henry (Brandon Sklenar) for her first date in years. However, things take a dark turn when an unknown individual starts airdropping images and videos to her phone, which say that, unless she murders Henry, her son and his babysitter will be killed.
Drop‘s first trailer and story synopsis make the mistake of revealing too much about its plot, but I suspect there might be a twist or two to come in its final act. That’s what I’m hoping for, anyway…
Sinners
Release date: April 17 (Australia); April 18 (US and UK)
Black Panther franchise director Ryan Coogler will take a temporary step back from his Marvel projects with this forthcoming horror-thriller that’s already being billed as one of 2025’s best new movies.
Michael B. Jordan leads an all-star cast in Sinners, with the Creed and Black Panther star playing twin brothers Elijah and Elias. In an effort to leave their traumatic pasts behind, the duo return to their small, rural hometown to start afresh, only to find that a supernatural evil awaits them. Hailee Steinfeld, Jayme Lawson, Delroy Lindo, Wunmi Mosaku, and Jack O’Connell are part of the A-list cast.
The Accountant 2
Release date: April 24 (Australia); April 25 (US and UK)
Nine years after The Accountant divided critics, a sequel – one that sees Ben Affleck return in the title role – is set to arrive in late April.
Once again, Affleck plays Christian Wolff, a mysterious individual with a knack for solving complex problems. When one of his old pals is murdered, Wolff enlists the help of estranged and highly-lethal brother Brax (Daredevil: Born Again‘s Jon Bernthal) and US Treasury Deputy Director Marybeth Medina (The Rings of Power‘s Cynthia Addai-Robinson) to track down the aforementioned friend’s killers. We’ll see if this one *ahem* pays off handsomely for Warner Bros.
Until Dawn
Release date: April 25 (worldwide)
Based on Supermassive Games’ 2016 ‘choose your own adventure’ horror videogame of the same name, Until Dawn will try to become the latest film adaptation to succeed, rather than flop, at the global box office.
Unlike the game it’s inspired by, Until Dawn won’t ask audiences to make choices in real-time (like Netflix‘s Bandersnatch interactive movie did, for example) to determine what’ll happen. Instead, the film’s five-strong cast of characters, who arrive in a creepy small town to investigate the disappearance of one of their relatives, find themselves trapped in a terrifying time loop as myriad monsters and supernatural beings kill them only for the group to be resurrected and be forced to endure the same night over and again. The only way out? To survive – yep, you guessed it – until dawn.
New movies: May
Thunderbolts*
Release date: May 2 (worldwide)
In a year where a new Captain America movie came out and The Fantastic Four‘s highly-anticipated MCU debut is on the cards, you’d be forgiven for thinking Thunderbolts* would be the Marvel movie that nobody cares about. And yet, whisper it quietly, it looks really good. Like, really, really good.
Starring Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova and Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes among other returning anti-heroes, this Marvel Phase 5 film will see a group of misfits and traumatized individuals team up to prevent another potentially world-ending event from occurring in the MCU. You can read more about its confirmed cast, plot specifics, and development history in my dedicated Thunderbolts guide. I really, really hope one of May’s new movies doesn’t let me down!
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Release date: May 15 (Australia); May 16 (US and UK)
Everyone’s favorite supernatural horror film franchise from the early 2000s is back. Final Destination was the horror movie series of its time and it’ll hope to win a new army of fans with Bloodlines, the first entry in the series for over 14 years, when it arrives in mid-May.
Its first trailer, which you can watch above, doesn’t really tell us anything about its plot. So, here’s the official story synopsis from Warner Bros: “Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.”
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Release date: May 21 (UK); May 22 (Australia); May 23 (US)
This is it, people. Tom Cruise’s likely final outing as Ethan Hunt will explode into theaters in late May and, based on its first trailer, the Mission: Impossible film series will aim to go out with an almighty bang.
Picking up where Mission Impossible 7 left off, it’ll see Hunt race to destroy the AI known as The Entity and stop Esai Morales’ Gabriel from completing his quest to establish a new world order. It’ll be tough to say goodbye to Hunt after a new-two-decade-long run for this movie series, but all good things must come to an end.
Lilo & Stitch
Release date: May 22 (Australia); May 23 (US and UK)
Disney’s live-action remake push shows no signs of slowing down. Indeed, following Snow White’s release in mid-March, this reimagining of a beloved 2002 animated classic will make its theatrical debut in late May. And, based on how its first trailer has stolen everyone’s hearts, it seems Lilo & Stitch (2025) will be another smash hit for the House of Mouse.
For the uninitiated: Lilo & Stitch tells the touching tale of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Chris Sanders, who voiced Stitch in the original, reprises his role as the lovable maverick in its remake. One of May’s new movies that’ll be a sure-fire hit.
Karate Kid: Legends
Release date: May 29 (Australia); May 30 (US and UK)
A continuation of the Karate Kid film franchise and Netflix‘s Cobra Kai TV spin-off, which is itself a spin-off of the aforementioned movies, Karate Kid: Legends will attempt to introduce newcomers to the franchise made famous by Mr Miyagi and his iconic “wax on, wax off” phrase.
Under the tutelage of Mr. Liu (Jackie Chan) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), Ben Wong’s Li Fong will look to win a New York-based karate competition after he’s forced to leave Beijing due to a family tragedy. One that Cobra Kai fans should flock to see.
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