19 Films to See in March
and Keith Kimbell, Metacritic Film Editor – March 1, 2023
March brings sequels to John Wick, Shazam, Scream, and Creed plus this year's Sundance winner, a big-screen Dungeons & Dragons adaptation, and a variety of arthouse fare in genres ranging from drama to horror to animation to whatever it is that Quentin Dupieux does. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting films debuting in North American theaters this month, listed in alphabetical order.
Foreign/Drama | Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Opens in theaters March 24
When Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s latest film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the jury the pair a special 75th Anniversary Prize. It was fitting, because in eight previous trips to Cannes, only once, for 2016’s The Unknown Girl, did they not walk away with an award. This story of 16-year-old Lokita (Joely Mbundu) and 11-year-old Tori (Pablo Schils), African immigrants struggling to survive in Belgium, did have its detractors (some critics thought it slipped into exploitation), but overall, most thought it was return to form for the directors and an improvement on their previous feature, Young Ahmed.