ScreenRant Movie Review Roundup: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Merv & More!

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The ScreenRant Reviews Team is back with new reviews of movies now playing in theaters and on streaming services. We cover everything from major blockbusters to smaller independent films, giving you expert opinions to help you choose what to watch. This week, we’re reviewing Quentin Tarantino’s combined Kill Bill cut, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jim Carrey’s Grinch, and taking a look at the remake of the cult classic Silent Night, Deadly Night, plus much more! You’ll find excerpts from each review, and we update our movie reviews section daily with the latest releases and insightful critic opinions.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Read Todd Gilchrist’s full review of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

Silent Night, Deadly Night

Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of Silent Night, Deadly Night.

Ella McCay

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.

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2025-12-12 13:03