March Movie Preview

Documentary - dir. Tony Benna
In theaters March 6

Tony Benna's film about the life and death of ad exec André Ricciardi won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award and the Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Dying of colon cancer, André sets out to document his remaining time and urge people to "Get yourself a fucking colonoscopy!" It's an intimate and offbeat celebration of life filled with laughter and tears.

Drama/Horror - dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal
In theaters (and IMAX) March 6

Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal's follow-up to her feature directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, is a re-imagining of The Bride of Frankenstein. Gyllenhaal moves the story to 1930s Chicago, where a lonely Frankenstein (Christian Bale) enlists Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. After reviving a murdered young woman, The Bride (Hamnet's Jessie Buckley) is born, and the pair set off on a Bonnie & Clyde -like adventure of romance and murder.

Foreign/Drama - dir. Aleksandre Koberidze
In theaters March 20

If you're in the mood for something challenging this month, then seek out Georgian writer-director Alexandre Koberidze's follow-up to his international breakthrough What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?. Shot with a Sony Ericsson W595 phone, the film is three hours of pixilated images, capturing the beauty of the Georgian countryside in a unique way. Viewers follow Irakli (David Koberidze) as he searches for his daughter, Lisa, a sports photographer. For Variety's Jessica Kiang, it's a "joy for devotees of the strange, singular and sometimes transcendent."

Animation/Family - dir. Daniel Chong
In theaters (and IMAX) March 6

The first of two Pixar releases this year (Toy Story 5 arrives June 19) follows Mabel (voiced by Piper Curda), an animal-loving teen who uses technology invented by her biology teacher (Kathy Najimy) to transfer her consciousness into a robotic beaver. Now able to communicate with animals, Mabel attempts to stop the destruction of the local animal habitat but inadvertently triggers an animal uprising. Early reviews are good for Daniel Chong's feature directing debut with a voice cast that includes Jon Hamm, Meryl Streep, Dave Franco, Kathy Najimy, Melissa Villaseñor, Vanessa Bayer, Sam Richardson, Isiah Whitlock Jr., and Bobby Moynihan.

Foreign/Comedy/Drama - dir. Radu Jude
In theaters March 27

The prolific Romanian writer-director Radu Jude (Aferim!, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World) is back in U.S. theaters for the second time in five months following the release of Dracula. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival, this dark comedy set in Cluj, Transylvania follows Orsolya as she suffers an existential crisis after evicting an elderly man from his cellar home. Seeking solace, Orsolya meets with her husband, an old friend, a priest, and her former student to try to make sense of this mad modern world.

Foreign/Drama/Thriller - dir. Petra Biondina Volpe
In theaters March 20

In this new film from writer-director Petra Volpe (The Divine Order and the recent Sundance premiere Frank & Louis), Leonie Benesch (The Teachers' Lounge, September 5) stars as Floria, a dedicated nurse whose shift at a Swiss hospital becomes an exhausting battle between life and death. As she tries to maintain her kind, professional demeanor, Floria, another nurse and an intern try to cover the needs of more than two dozen patients in this portrait of the everyday courage and emotional cost of frontline care work.

Foreign/Drama/Thriller - dir. Christian Petzold
In theaters March 20

The latest collaboration between writer-director Christian Petzold and actress Paula Beer (following Transit, Undine and Afire) premiered in the Director's Fortnight during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Beer stars as Laura, a young piano student who miraculously survives a car crash and then decides to recover in the home of the woman (Barbara Auer) who witnessed it. As she recuperates, Laura integrates herself into her surrogate family, reawakening ghosts from the past.

Comedy/Drama/Thriller - dir. Oscar Boyson
In NY March 27 / LA April 3

Oscar Boyson's directorial debut stars Jaeden Martell as Balthazar, a rich New York City kid who lives with his divorced mother (Jennifer Ehle) and has a life coach (Noah Centineo). In hopes of impressing his activist crush (Pippa Knowles), Balthazar travels to Texas to stop Solomon (a barely recognizable Asa Butterfield) from committing a school shooting, but once the two young men meet, they find they have more in common than they thought. It's a darkly funny and cutting look at performative social media and masculinity in crisis.

Drama - dir. Tom Harper
In theaters March 6 and streams on Netflix beginning March 20

Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson, Stephen Graham, Tim Roth, and Barry Keoghan head the cast for a feature-film follow-up to Steven Knight's historical crime drama series, which originally ran for six seasons on the BBC and Netflix while collecting numerous awards in the UK along the way. Written by Knight, the film advances the story by nearly a decade to the middle of WWII, and eventually it will be followed by a pair of six-episode sequel series set in the 1950s.

Documentary - dir. Gianfranco Rosi
In NY March 6 / LA and Chicago March 13 / streams on MUBI starting March 27

Winner of Berlin's Golden Bear in 2016 for Fire at Sea and Venice's Golden Lion in 2013 for Sacro GRA, filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi took home the Special Jury Prize at the 2025 Venice Film Festival for this portrait of life in Naples as the foot of Mount Vesuvius, the still active volcano that destroyed the city of Pompeii in 79 A.D. Rosi, a consistently surprising filmmaker with a unique perspective, captures the daily lives of archaeologists, firefighters, teachers, and children.

Drama/Sci-Fi/Thriller - dir. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
In theaters (and IMAX) March 20

For this adaptation of Andrew Weir's 2021 sci-fi novel, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (21 Jump Street, The LEGO Movie, 22 Jump Street) return to feature film directing for the first time since being replaced by Ron Howard on Solo: A Star Wars Story. Drew Goddard, who wrote Ridley Scott's adaptation of Weir's The Martian (which earned seven Oscar nominations), is back as screenwriter for this story of Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a science teacher recruited to save the earth from extinction. Light years away from home, he meets an alien creature with the same goal for its home planet.

Horror/Comedy - dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
In theaters March 20

This sequel to 2019's Ready or Not picks up just after Grace (Samara Weaving) has survived the deadly game of hide-and-seek with her new husband and in-laws. She quickly learns that her troubles aren't over when her sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton), is captured alongside her. This time, Grace and Faith are hunted by four of the wealthiest families in the world. Directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (aka Radio Silence) are back along with screenwriters Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. Joining the cast are Elijah Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Néstor Carbonell, Kevin Durand, Shawn Hatosy, and David Cronenberg.

Drama/Sports - dir. Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn
In theaters March 13

Irish directors Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D'Sa's follow-up to Ordinary Love dramatizes the dust-up between Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke) and Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) before the 2002 World Cup. Paul Fraser's script might not capture how the conflict erupted at home, dividing a country and sparking a tabloid frenzy, but this sharp workplace drama is an insightful look at male ego.

Horror/Comedy - dir. Kirill Sokolov
In theaters March 27

Why Don't You Just Die! director Kirill Sokolov is back with another action-filled black comedy. Zazie Beetz stars as Asia, an ex-con whose new job as a housekeeper at a New York City high-rise turns out to be a fight for survival as she discovers secrets hidden within the hotel. The strong supporting cast includes Patricia Arquette, Heather Graham, Myha'la, and Tom Felton. It might make a good double feature with another film coming out this month.

Foreign/Drama/Thriller - dir. Sergey Loznitsa
In theaters March 20

Maidan director Sergei Loznitza's last narrative feature, 2018's Donbass, earned him the Directing Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. Since then he has focused on his documentary work, including State Funeral and Babi Yar. Context. In 2025 he returned to the main competition for the first time since 2017's A Gentle Creature with a story set in the Soviet Union of 1937 where a local prosecutor takes a case of unlawful imprisonment all the way to the office of the Attorney General in Moscow. Adapting a novel by Soviet writer and political prisoner Georgy Demidov, Loznitza builds suspense as his good-hearted prosecutor descends into the Kafkaesque nightmare of totalitarian bureaucracy.

Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller - dir. Ian Tuason
In theaters March 13

Writer-director Ian Tuason's feature debut stars Nina Kiri as Evy, the host of a popular podcast on the paranormal. After moving home to care for her mother (Michèle Duquet), Evy is haunted by mysterious recordings sent to her from an anonymous email. Good reviews from the Fantasia and Sundance Film Festivals praise the ability of the film's sound design to creep out audiences.

Foreign/Drama - dir. Nadav Lapid
In theaters March 27

The latest incendiary film from Nadav Lapid (Synonyms, Ahed's Knee) is a brutally satirical look at the relationship of Y. (Ariel Bronz), a musician, and his dancer wife Yasmin (Efrat Dor) to the Israeli elite in the aftermath of October 7. Asked to compose music for a new national anthem, Y. and Yasmin sell their art, souls, and bodies in this visceral indictment of contemporary Israel.

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