New movies: the most exciting films coming to theaters in March and beyond

March is here and it's bringing lots of new movies with it. After a quiet end to February on the new theatrical films front, the third month of 2025 is coming out swinging, with Robert Pattinson's latest flick – the surreal sci-fi comedy Mickey 17 – landing in cinemas worldwide this weekend (March 7 to 9).

There'll be plenty more big-screen entertainment to enjoy in the weeks and months ahead, too. New comic book movies, such as James Gunn's Superman movie and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, arrive in July, but there's a whole stack of genre-centric new movies to look forward to before and after those. So, read on to learn more about the most anticipated films of the year!

New movies: March

Mickey 17

Release date: out now (worldwide)

The first movie from multi-award-winning director Bong Joon-ho since 2019's multi-award-winning Parasite, this dark comedy sci-fi flick, which is based on Edward Nashton's Mickey7 novel, is out now in cinemas globally.

Robert Pattinson (The Batman, Twilight) plays Earth dweller Mickey Barnes, who signs up to become an "expendable" – a disposable worker who, when one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated and their memories implanted into said body – on a distant planet. However, things go awry when, upon surviving humanity's expedition to another world called Nilfheim, Mickey 17 finds that his replacement (Mickey 18) has already been born. Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Tomi Collette, and Mark Ruffalo are among its starry cast.

With 81% critical and 82% audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes (RT), it's not as highly-rated as Parasite, but only just! It's still absolutely worth checking out, in my view.

One of Them Days

Release date: out now (worldwide)

Starring Keke Palmer and SZA, this comedy flick sees the pair play Dreux and Alyssa, best friends and roommates who are forced to find cash by any means necessary when Alyssa's boyfriend blows their rent money on life's excesses. Cue a frantic race against the clock to avoid eviction.

It may not look like something many people will enjoy, but its 95% critical ad 90% audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes suggest you shouldn't sleep on One of Them Days.

Black Bag

Release date: March 13 (Australia); March 14 (US); March 21 (UK)

X-Men alumnus Michael Fassbender will add to his ever-expanding back catalog of spy thrillers with this latest flick from Steven Soderbergh. In Black Bag, Fassbender plays George Woodhouse, a legendary intelligence agent who's married to Kathryn (Cate Blanchett), another of the world's most accomplished spies. But, when Kathryn is suspected of betraying her country, George must decide whether he's more loyal to his partner or his nation.

With Fassbender's first two spy-based projects – Netflix's The Killer and Paramount Plus' The Agency – earning positive and mixed reviews respectively, he'll hope Black Bag will follow in the former's footsteps rather than the latter's

Novocaine

Release date: March 13 (Australia); March 14 (US); March 28 (UK)

The Boys star Jack Quaid, who recently wowed audiences in Warner Bros' creepy romantic thriller Companion, returns to the big screen in March with Novocaine.

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.

Opus

Release date: March 14 (US); March 28 (UK); TBC (Australia)

The Bear and Inside Out 2 star Ayo Edebiri stars alongside John Malkovich among many other big-name actors in this musical thriller from acclaimed indie film studio A24.

Little is known about its plot, but it appears to center on Edebiri's journalist, who travels to the remote compound of a legendary albeit eccentric pop star who hasn't been seen in 30 years. Cue another movie that explores cultism and the perils associated with them.

Snow White

Release date: March 20 (Australia); March 21 (US and UK)

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. Expect one of March's new movies to fall into the "it's okay, but was a remake really necessary?" category of reimagined Disney classics.

The Alto Knights

Release date: March 20 (Australia); March 21 (US and UK)

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.

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.

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'll definitely be checking out.

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.

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