New This Week (10/31/2025): Bugonia, Urchin, Nouvelle Vague, & More!

By John Corrado

New releases for the week of October 31st, 2025. Happy Halloween!

(L to R) Aidan Delbis as Don, Jesse Plemons as Teddy and Emma Stone as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ BUGONIA, a Focus Features release. Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.

Theatrical Releases:

Bugonia (Wide Release): This latest film from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos opened in limited release last week, and is now expanding. Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone and Aidan Delbis deliver a trio of compelling performances in this mix of conspiracy thriller and dark comedy, about two cousins (Plemons and Delbis) who kidnap a CEO (Stone) that they believe is an alien. Lanthimos fans should check it out. (Full Review)

Urchin (Limited Release): British actor Harris Dickinson makes his directorial debut with this raw character drama about a homeless addict (played by Frank Dillane) trying to get his life back on track in London. Dickinson shows promise behind the camera, and Dillane’s gripping breakout performance is the reason to see this one. (Full Review)

Nouvelle Vague (Limited Release): Richard Linklater’s playful, black-and-white tribute to the French New Wave offers an enjoyable portrait of a defiant Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) through the production of his groundbreaking 1959 film Breathless. It’s perfectly cast too, including Marbeck as Godard and Zoey Deutch as actress Jean Seberg. This is Linklater’s second movie this year, with his excellent Blue Moon having just opened last week, so audiences can treat themselves to their own double bill. (TIFF 2025 Review)

More Releases: The Mastermind (Limited), Anniversary (Limited), Stitch Head (Limited), Depeche Mode: M (Limited), KPop Demon Hunters: A Sing-Along Event (Limited), Back to the Future: 40th Anniversary (Limited)

Streaming Releases:

Ballad of a Small Player (Netflix): Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave) returns with this portrait of a gambling addict (played by Colin Farrell) in Macau. I found this one to be stylistically beautifully but somewhat hollow when I saw it at TIFF. Still, I do think it’s worth a watch on streaming, mainly for Farrell’s performance, James Friend’s neon-soaked cinematography, and composer Volker Bertelmann’s booming score (TIFF 2025 Review)

More Releases: Hedda (Prime Video), The Witcher: Season 4 (Netflix)