March’s must-see movies

With the awards season done and dusted, Kiwi cinemas will be home to a variety of movies. For fans of big dramas, there’s the Ben Affleck-starring redemption tale The Way Back (March 5), a series of intertwining love stories feature in The Photograph (March 5), a first date goes terribly wrong in Queen & Slim (March 19) and the lives and loves of Polish scientist Marie Curie are explored in Radioactive (March 26).

From Russia comes The Humorist (March 19), a 1980s-set tale about a standup comedian unravelling under the weight of fame and censorship, there’s Bafta-winning British black-andwhite fishing drama Bait

(March 26), and the Oscarnominated documentary Honeyland (March 5) looks at the work of the Macedonian-based last female bee-hunter in Europe.

Returning from last year’s inaugural British Film Festival are choir comedy Military Wives (March 12) and oldies-behavingbadly in All at Sea (March 19). Nicolas Cage headlines the cosmic horror Color Out of Space (March 12), which debuted at the 2019 Terror-fi Festival.

Stuff has singled out eight great releases we believe are well worth viewing.

Daniel Radcliffe, Ready or Not’s

Samara Weaving and a host of familiar Kiwi faces star in this anarchic action-comedy about a video game developer whose trolling lands him a role as an unlikely participant in a deadly gladiatorial-style combat competition.

Written and directed by Deathgasm’s Jason Lei Howden.

Todd Haynes’ environmental courtroom drama details Cincinnati lawyer Robert

Bilott’s crusade to get justice for the residents of West Virginia ‘‘poisoned’’ by the chemical giant Dupont’s negligence.

A kind of Erin Brockovichmeets-john-grisham-esque drama, it stars Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins and Bill Pullman.