4 New Movies You Can Rent This Month

This article will be updated throughout the month as more movies are available to rent on demand.

The Oscars have come and gone, which means we can now get serious about 2025 movies! Almost three months into the New Year, we’ve seen hardly anything that could be called a smash hit, but a few critical darlings just dropped on PVOD or are about to do so, depending on when you’re catching up with the on-demand landscape. Pick your faves.

March 4

Heart Eyes

Josh Ruben, 97 minutes

A well-reviewed Valentine’s Day horror film? It really is a new era. Josh Ruben directed this serial-killer movie about a villain who targets couples on the Hallmark holiday, but his latest victims (played by Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding) aren’t actually a couple. At least not yet. Part rom-com, part slasher pic, this one got a stunning (for this genre) 81 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. See what made the vast majority of critics fall madly in love.

March 11

I’m Still Here

Walter Salles, 138 minutes

After Emilia Pérez collapsed during awards season, Sony Pictures Classics jumped in and took a well-deserved Oscar for Best International Feature earlier this month. Also nominated in Best Actress, this adaptation of the 2015 memoir of the same name is the story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a woman struggling through the aftermath of her husband’s disappearance by the Brazilian dictatorship. The highest-grossing film from Brazil since COVID, this has been a true international hit — a case of quality rising to the top and a story of depressing urgency given the state of the world.

March 18

Last Breath

Alex Parkinson, 93 minutes

After sinking (sorry) at the box office, Alex Parkinson’s true story of survival is already on PVOD. Based on the 2019 documentary of the same name, it’s the story of a diver named Chris Lemons (Finn Cole), who became trapped hundreds of feet underwater during a diving accident. Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, and Cliff Curtis play members of the team that tries to save Lemons against all odds.

March 25

Mickey 17

Bong Joon Ho, 137 minutes

The director of Parasite returned this month with another allegory for the corrupt, broken state of the world in this wonderful sci-fi vision that most people in the U.S. ignored in theaters, leading to a PVOD drop only 18 days after its release. Robert Pattinson plays the title character, an “expendable” who gets cloned every time he dies. A clear commentary on capitalism that becomes a treatise on how we colonize and brutalize the natural world, this one has a little bit of Nausicaä, a dash of Edge of Tomorrow, a sprinkle of Beavis and Butt-Head, and a whole lot of Bong. It may not be perfect, but it’s as ambitious as anything you’ll see this year.