February Movie Preview

Comedy/Drama/Sci-Fi - dir. Amanda Kramer
In theaters February 13

In the new body-swap film from writer-director Amanda Kramer (Please Baby Please, Give Me Pity!), Juliette Lewis plays Camille, a woman who swaps forms with a chair. As a chair, Amanda realizes the people in her life prefer her as an inanimate object. Unable to speak or move, Amanda becomes a better listener, a pleasing change to her mother (Betty Buckley) and best friends (Samantha Mathis and Robin Tunney). Eventually, chair-Amanda ends up in the hands of a piano player (Mamoudou Athie), who falls in love with his new possession. It's an offbeat, funny, and surprisingly emotional film if you can get on its eccentric wavelength.

Foreign/Drama - dir. Maryam Touzani
In theaters February 6

The Blue Caftan director Maryam Touzani and her co-writer husband Nabil Ayouch (the director of 2024's Everybody Loves Touda) are behind this unassuming character study of María Ángeles (Carmen Maura), a 79-year-old Spanish woman living in Tangiers, Morocco. Told by her visiting daughter Carla (Marta Etura) that her home is going to be sold and she has to move, María cleverly resists losing everything she loves, rediscovering a lust for life in the process. It's another crowd-pleasing, humanistic film from this filmmaking duo.

Drama/Thriller - dir. Bart Layton
In theaters (and IMAX) February 13

Writer-director Bart Layton moves from true-crime documentary (The Imposter) and a narrative crime thriller based on an actual robbery (American Animals) to a full-blown Hollywood version of a crime thriller with this adaptation of a novel by Don Winslow (Savages). Chris Hemsworth plays a jewel thief whose heists along California's Highway 101 have caught the attention of detective played by Mark Ruffalo. Hoping to pull off one last job, Hemsworth enlists the help of an insurance broker played by Halle Berry. The strong ensemble is filled out by Barry Keoghan, who proves to be a nuisance to getting the job done cleanly, as well as Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte.

Documentary/Music - dir. Baz Luhrmann
In IMAX February 20 and regular theaters February 27

Baz Luhrmann isn't done with Elvis Presley quite yet. During research for his 2022 Oscar-nominated biopic Elvis, Luhrmann discovered boxes of unused footage from two concert films from the early 1970s, as well as audio recordings of interviews from the time which he then restored (as Peter Jackson did for The Beatles: Get Back) and edited into a new concert film that impressed critics when it premiered at TIFF in 2025.

Sci-Fi/Action-Adventure/Comedy - dir. Gore Verbinski
In theaters February 13

Nine years since his last film, A Cure for Wellness, hit theaters, director Gore Verbinski is back with a sci-fi adventure starring Sam Rockwell as a man from the future who comes back to a contemporary Los Angeles diner to recruit a team of regular individuals to help him fight a rogue AI. Those trusted with saving humanity include characters played by Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Juno Temple, and Zazie Beetz. Written by Matthew Robinson (Love and Monsters, The Invention of Lying), this action-comedy take on the apocalypse earned very good early reviews.

Comedy/Drama/Thriller - dir. John Patton Ford
In theaters February 20

Writer-director John Patton Ford's follow-up to Emily the Criminal is loosely inspired by the 1949 British classic Kind Hearts and Coronets (which famously saw Alec Guinness playing eight different roles). In Ford's black comedy, Glen Powell stars as Becket Redfellow, who decides it might be worth it to kill seven relatives to become the sole heir to a $28 billion fortune. Standing in his way are family members played by Ed Harris, Bill Camp, Topher Grace, and Zach Woods, and the rest of the strong ensemble includes Margaret Qualley and Jessica Henwick.

Drama - dir. Akinola Davies
In theaters February 6

Akinola Davies Jr. won the Camera d'Or "Special Distinction" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and Breakthrough Director at the 2025 Gotham Awards for this semi-autobiographical tale (written with his brother Wale Davies) about a father (Sope Dirisu) and his two young sons who travel from their small village to the chaotic city of Lagos, Nigeria on June 24, 1993, when Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida annulled the results of the country's first democratic election. Universal acclaim from critics makes this one to seek out this month.

Comedy - dir. Matt Johnson
In theaters February 13

Writer-director Matt Johnson's follow-up to 2023's BlackBerry began as a web series with his co-writer/co-star Jay McCarrol in 2008. Playing idiotic versions of themselves, their goal was for their band to play a show at the Rivoli, a Toronto bar. Now, all these years later, a tear in the space-time continuum allows Matt and Jay to travel back to 2008 to put on that show. It's a time-traveling buddy comedy with plenty of references to Back to the Future and more than enough laughs to be one of the rare comedies to earn universal acclaim from early reviews.

Foreign/Drama - dir. Annemarie Jacir
In LA/NY theaters February 13 (more cities March 20)

Annemarie Jacir (Wajib, When I Saw You) directs this look at a pivotal moment in Palestine's history. It's 1936, and the British Empire is tightening its grip on the people of Palestine. Yusef (Karim Daoud Anaya) navigates the chaos as he travels between Jerusalem and his rural home. As more is taken from them with each passing day, Palestinians decide that revolt against British colonial rule is the only answer. Jeremy Irons, Liam Cunningham, Billy Howle, Hiam Abbass, Robert Aramayo, and Saleh Bakri make up the ensemble of Palestine's Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards.

Drama/Rom-Com - dir. Harry Lighton
In limited release February 6 (wider February 20)

Director Harry Lighton won Best Screenplay in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for his adaptation of Adam Mars Jones' novel Box Hill. Lighton's debut feature stars Harry Melling as Colin, a timid, introverted man whose life is changed when he becomes a submissive to a handsome biker played by Alexander Skarsgård. While there might be plenty of leather, nudity, and kinky gay sex, the sub/dom relationship at its center is like any other: relatable, romantic, funny and tender.

Foreign/Drama - dir. Hasan Hadi
In limited release February 6 (wider February 27)

Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and the Director's Fortnight People's Choice prize, Hasan Hadi's debut feature follows nine-year-old Lamia in 1990s Iraq as she struggles to procure the ingredients to make a state-mandated cake to celebrate President Saddam Hussein's birthday at her school. Critics praise the film's balance of humor, drama, and social critique.

Anime - dir. Mamoru Hosoda
In IMAX February 6 and regular theaters February 13

The new animated film from visionary director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, Mirai, Belle ) follows Scarlet, a medieval, sword-fighting princess out to avenge her father's death. After being gravely injured, Scarlet finds herself alive amongst the dead in the "Otherworld," where she meets a young man from our present day. As he helps her heal, Scarlet must decide if she has the strength to break the cycle of violence that has controlled her life.

Horror/Thriller - dir. Kevin Williamson
In theaters February 27

After the controversial departures of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega following the success of Scream VI, original Scream writer Kevin Williamson returns to direct a script that sees the return of Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott. Campbell sat out the sixth film in the series due to a pay dispute, but she's back to protect her teenage daughter (Isabel May) from Ghostface in a film that looks to have a few surprises up its sleeve. Courteney Cox also returns as Gale Weathers, and Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding reprise their roles form the last film. Also on the call sheet are the supposedly dead Dewey Riley (David Arquette), Roman Bridger (Scott Foley), and Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard), but how they manifest is unclear.

Foreign/Action-Adventure/Drama/Thriller - dir. Óliver Laxe
In theaters February 6

The fourth feature from writer-director Oliver Laxe (You All Are Captains, Mimosas, Fire Will Come) follows a father (Sergi López) and son as they arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco looking for their lost daughter/sister. Failing at their first stop, they follow a group of ravers to another party in the desert, pushing them to their limits. Since sharing the Jury Prize (3rd Place) with Sound of Falling at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, this one-of-a-kind film has gone on to be nominated for two Oscars—Best International Feature Film and Best Sound.

Drama - dir. Emerald Fennell
In theaters (and IMAX) February 13

Sure to be praised and derided upon its release as her first two features— Promising Young Woman and Saltburn —were, Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë's beloved gothic novel follows the turbulent romance of Catherine (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi). How many changes Fennell will make to the text is unknown for now, but her liberties with costume and set decoration have already caused a stir. The film features original music by Charli XCX, and one can only hope there is a scene equal to Barry Keoghan drinking Jacob Elordi's bathwater.

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