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.
Horror | Directed by Mark Jenkin
Opens in theaters March 31
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Cornish writer-director Mark Jenkin’s follow-up to his critically-acclaimed Bait is a meditation on grief that unfolds on an island in the Celtic Sea where the life of its sole resident (Mary Woodvine), a wildlife volunteer observing flowers, takes a strange turn. The title is Cornish for Stone Island, where the film is set in 1973, but time is elliptical on the island as apparitions and hauntings come and go. Jenkin adds to the eerie mood by shooting the film himself on 16mm film and post-synching the sound, making it feel like a found artifact from the 1970s. Fans of The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now might want to seek it out.