Admit One 3/7/25
Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend, it’s Admit One.
Mickey 17 (Theaters)
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo
Directed by: Bong Joon Ho
Plot: Mickey 17, known as an “expendable,” goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 83%
Critic Consensus: “Mickey 17 finds Bong Joon Ho returning to his forte of daffy sci-fi with a withering social critique at its core, proving along the way that you can never have too many Robert Pattisons”
In The Lost Lands (Theaters)
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Dave Bautista, Arly Jover, Amara Okereke, Fraser James
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Plot: A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where the sorceress and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight man and demon.
RT Freshness: 20%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Rule Breakers (Theaters)
Starring: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ali Fazal, Fahim Fazil, Nikohl Boosheri, Nasser Memarzia, Christian Contreras
Directed by: Bill Guttentag
Plot: In a nation where educating girls is seen as rebellion, a visionary woman dares to teach young minds to dream. When their innovation draws global attention, their success sparks hope–and opposition. As threats loom and sacrifices are made, their courage and unity ignite a movement that could forever transform the world.
RT Freshness: 71%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Queen of the Ring (Theaters)
Starring: Emily Bett Rickards, Josh Lucas, Walton Goggins, Gavin Cassalegno, Tyler Posey, Francesca Eastwood
Directed by: Ash Avildsen
Plot: In a time when pro wrestling for women was illegal all over the United States, a small town single mother embraces the danger as she dominates America’s most masculine sport and becomes the first million dollar female athlete in history.
RT Freshness: 73%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Night of the Zoopocalypse (Theaters)
Starring: David Harbour, Scott Thompson, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Gabriella Kosmidis, Pierre Simpson
Directed by: Ricardo Curtis and Rodrigo Perez-Castro
Plot: After a meteor unleashes a virus that turns zoo animals into zombies, a mountain lion and wolf lead a team of surviving animals to stop the virus and rescue their zoo.
RT Freshness: 100%
Critic Consensus: N/A
The Rule of Jenny Pen (Theaters)
Starring: John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, Nathaniel Lees, George Henare, Thomas Sainsbury
Directed by: James Ashcroft
Plot: Arrogant Judge Stefan Mortensen suffers a near-fatal stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed and confined to a retirement home. Resistant to the staff and distant from his friendly roommate, Mortensen soon clashes with seemingly gentle resident Dave Crealy who secretly terrorizes the home with a sadistic game called “The Rule of Jenny Pen” while wielding his dementia doll as an instrument of cruelty. What begins as childish torment quickly escalates into far more sinister and disturbing incidents.
RT Freshness: 68%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Seven Veils (Theaters)
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine
Directed by: Atom Egoyan
Plot: An earnest theater director has the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to color the present.
RT Freshness: 69%
Critic Consensus: N/A
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Theaters)
Starring: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Henry B.J. Phiri, Roy Chisha, Blessings Bhamjee, Chungu Bwalya
Directed by: Rungano Nyoni
Plot: On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
RT Freshness: 100%
Critic Consensus: “A vibrant exploration of family and social mores, On Becoming a Guineau Fowl marks another superb effort from writer-director Rungano Nyoni”
Picture This (Prime Video)
Starring: Simone Ashley, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Sindhu Vee, Luke Fetherston, Nikesh Patel, Adil Ray
Directed by: Prarthana Mohan
Plot: Pia, a struggling photographer, receives a prediction: true love awaits in her next five dates. With her sister’s wedding looming and her family playing matchmaker, her ex re-appears, throwing her love life into chaos.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Bloat (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Ben McKenzie, Bojana Novakovic, Kane Kosugi, Malcolm Fuller, Sawyer D. Jones
Directed by: Pablo Absento
Plot: After a near-death drowning accident, a young boy’s family is horrified to discover he has become possessed by a legendary demon from the depths of the lake. As the family races against time to save the boy’s soul, the evil monster inside the child tears the family apart as it seeks to destroy everyone in its path.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
