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Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures; Ben Blackall/Focus Features Tom Cruise as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in "Top Gun: Maverick"; Penelope Wilton as Isobel Merton and Maggie Smith as Violet Grantham in "Downton Abbey A New Era." With the warmer breezes of spring comes a fresh batch of movies — from blockbusters to art films — arriving in theaters and on streaming platforms like and HBO Max. Keep track of what’s coming and when with our critics’ guide. See you at the movies! Coming March 18
The Outfit
Oscar winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies), 62, stars as a natty Savile Row tailor who suffers a personal tragedy and finds himself on the mean streets of Chicago making a bunch of touchy, bloodthirsty gangsters feel like fashion plates. They’re meaner — but he may be smarter. Coming to: Coming March 23
The Lost City
If you’re nostalgic for and Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, try Sandra Bullock (57) as a reclusive romance novelist on a book tour with her hunky cover model, Channing Tatum. When she gets kidnapped by a billionaire nut who wants her to lead him to an ancient city’s lost treasure, the model tries to prove he’s a hero for real. Coming to: Coming March 25
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Liked the multiple Spideys in Spider-Man: No Way Out? Get ready for a much better actor, Michelle Yeoh (Crazy Rich Asians, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), 59, as a Chinese immigrant in America who must save the world by exploring multiverses containing the alternate lives she might have led. Coming to: Don’t miss this: Join today and save 25% off the standard annual rate. Get instant access to discounts, programs, services, and the information you need to benefit every area of your life. Coming April 1
Morbius
At 50, Jared Leto plays a scientist who treats his deadly blood ailment with a potion that makes him a kind of vampire — he can glide, hear and drink blood like a bat, but garlic and crosses don’t faze him. Sunlight does, so he works in darkness while struggling with his own dark impulses. Michael Keaton, 70, plays his mentor Vulture, who advises, “Let go of what you used to be — discover who you’re meant to be.” Coming to: Coming April 15
Father Stu
Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter), 50, leaps back into the ring as Stuart Long, a real-life anti-Christian boxer who crashed his motorcycle, had a vision in a near-death experience, became a priest and died of a rare ailment at 50. “But not,” Wahlberg said, “before he was able to inspire thousands upon thousands of people.” Mel Gibson, 66, plays his father. Coming to: Don’t miss this: Coming April 22
The Northman
In a movie based on the Danish legend that inspired Hamlet, Amleth (played by Alexander Skarsgård, Big Little Lies), a 10th-century Viking, hunts the man who killed his father, King Aurvandil (, 51), and abducted his mom (Nicole Kidman, 54). Björk, 56, depicts a witch. Willem Dafoe, 66, says his court jester character is “nefarious.” Coming to: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Nicolas Cage, 58, who blew $150 million and hasn’t made a blockbuster in years, plays two characters: a desperate actor named Nicolas Cage, who takes $1 million to appear at a fan’s birthday party, and the actor’s alter ego, Nicky Cage, who berates Nicolas for doing little art films. This one could be a big art film à la Being John Malkovich. Coming to: Coming April 27
The Survivor
Rain Man director Barry Levinson, 80, tells the fact-based story of Poland’s Harry Haft, who was forced to fight 76 other Auschwitz prisoners to entertain SS officers before escaping to America and fighting Rocky Marciano. USC Shoah Foundation executive Stephen Smith calls it “one of the best contributions to Holocaust filmography since Schindler’s List.” Coming to: and Coming April 29
Memory
In what sounds more interesting than his usual action flicks, Liam Neeson (69) plays an assassin for hire who refuses to kill somebody. Now he’s got to kill the folks who hired him before they kill him or the FBI intervenes. The interesting part? He’s losing his memory. Coming to: Coming May 6
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
We know Benedict Cumberbatch is back as the neurosurgeon-turned-sorcerer, with Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch, and that creatures will be chased in multiple universes. But what is Patrick Stewart (who played the X-Men’s honcho), 81, doing in the movie? We’ll soon find out in this universe. Coming to: Coming May 20
Downton Abbey A New Era
Most of the old cast returns to the 2019 hit film. Set a year later, in 1927, it adds newcomers Dominic West, 52, as an actor shooting a movie at Downton, and French star Nathalie Baye, 73, as an old crony of Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith, 87) — who scandalously acquires a villa in France from a mysterious man in her past. Coming to: Legally Blonde 3
Reese Witherspoon’s pink-thinking Harvard Law grad is back as a grownup mom. “How Elle is at 40 versus how she was at 21 has been really fun to imagine,” said writer Mindy Kaling. But what is manicurist Paulette (skyrocketing actress Jennifer Coolidge, 60) up to this time? Coming to: Coming May 27
Top Gun Maverick
Rebel test pilot Maverick (, 59) roars back in a Super Hornet jet to the tune of “Danger Zone.” “Tom plays the same guy, looking for the edge,” says producer Jerry Bruckheimer, 78. Now his rival Iceman (Val Kilmer, 61) is an admiral. The flyboys endure the same G-force they did in youth, tough even for real-life pilot Cruise. “You’ll see how their faces distort — none of that is visual effects.” Coming to: More spring movies
Nick Wall/Roadside Attractions/Courtesy Everett Collection Ralph Fiennes (left) and Jessica Chastain The Forgiven release date to come
On holiday in Morocco, two upper-crust Europeans (Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes, 59) attend a decadent snobs’ party, then he drives drunk and kills a local pedestrian. Can paying blood money to the kid’s father wash the blood off his hands? Will ISIS kill him anyway? Coming to: Unplugging release date to come
A couple (Matt Walsh and Eva Longoria) decide to recharge their marriage (and sex life) on a rustic weekend getaway free from children, phones and social media. Then all hell (plus raccoon aggression) breaks loose. Coming to: Tim Appelo covers entertainment and is the film and TV critic for AARP. Previously, he was the entertainment editor at Amazon, video critic at Entertainment Weekly, and a critic and writer for The Hollywood Reporter, People, MTV, The Village Voice and LA Weekly. More on Movies for Grownups
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