ScreenRant’s Reviews Team is back with a fresh slate of films to check out in theaters and on streaming. Our roundup features expert takes on both the weekend’s biggest blockbusters and hidden indie gems—helping you decide what’s worth your watch time. We’ve got reviews of Quentin Tarantino’s combined Kill Bill cut, a look back at Jim Carrey’s Grinch on its 25th anniversary, the re-make of the cult classic Silent Night, Deadly Night and more, along with excerpts from each review. Visit our movie reviews section daily for all the latest releases and sharp critic takes.
Ella McCay Official Trailer
Chaotic, disjointed and worst of all phony where virtually all of its predecessors exuded an authentic, even uncomfortable relatability.
Read Todd Gilchrist’s full review of Ella McCay.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas’ 25th Anniversary
How The Grinch Stole Christmas | Trailer
Like its main character, How The Grinch Stole Christmas isn’t a cult success in spite of its oddities but precisely because of it.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
Merv
Merv Trailer
Across Merv‘s 105-minute runtime — another problem entirely, as the movie often feels like it slows to a dreadful crawl — the pair are clearly doing their best to elevate the material beyond its bluntly boring nature.
Read Grant Hermanns’ full review of Merv.
Serious People
Serious People Trailer
Serious People is much more about how people like Miguel can ingratiate themselves to other people under the guise of seriousness, becoming, by pure chance, what they had embodied the whole time.
Read Graeme Guttmann’s full review of Serious People.
Atropia
Atropia, A Satirical Romance Set On A Military Base That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud
Even when the script does not hammer home its layers, it is Shawkat, with all her star power and prowess, who carries the emotional weight of the film to ground all its silliness.
Read Patrice Witherspoon’s full review of Atropia.
Rosemead
Lucy Liu Has The Best Beach Day In Rosemead Clip
Lucy Liu’s devastating performance as a fiercely dedicated yet desperate parent helps elevate what’s an undeniable tragedy into a story about a mother’s ultimate — if misguided — expression of love.
Read Todd Gilchrist’s full review of Rosemead.
Brokeback Mountain’s 20th Anniversary
Brokeback Mountain | Trailer
As uncertain — or perhaps anecdotal — as its cultural legacy might be to those individuals who found themselves validated by its existence, the cinematic legacy, at least, of Brokeback Mountain remains assured.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of Brokeback Mountain.
One More Shot
The film has some of the requisite moments of figuring out just what is happening to herself, but skips past what should be an amusing section of indulging in hedonism. Minnie just isn’t having a good time, and so neither do we.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of One More Shot.
The Mother, The Menacer, and Me
The Mother, The Menacer, and Me Trailer
Indeed, much of the comedy here is extremely broad, too. A lot of the humor is mined from Wisconsin in-jokes. People even passingly familiar with the state will hear accents and references to burger chains and local townships and nod with understanding.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of The Mother, The Menacer, and Me.
Europe’s New Faces
Europe’s New Faces Trailer
Abbas creates a series of striking compositions and still-lifes in this first section, giving us, as close as he can, the textured experience of being trapped within dilapidated walls.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of Europe’s New Faces.
Lone Samurai
Lone Samurai Trailer
Strangely, the film would probably have been best as a sort of Cast Away-style survival film, because as soon as it moves from the exceptional tranquility of the first third to the nauseating violence of the last two thirds, it loses all the majesterial quality it had built up.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of Lone Samurai.
Bi Gan’s Resurrection
Bi Gan’s Resurrection Trailer
Shot with alacrity by Dong Jinsong, who also collaborated with Bi Gan on Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Resurrection is one of the most gorgeously photographed films of the year.
Read Gergory Nussen’s full review of Bi Gan’s Resurrection.