Best new movies and TV series on Disney+ New Zealand: March 2025

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Disney+’s New Zealand library. Here’s Eliza Janssen’s recommendations for the titles most worth watching. Scroll down for the full list of everything arriving on the platform.

Top picks

Daredevil: Born Again (March 5)

Matt Murdock rides again! A blind lawyer by day and the red-suited avenger of Hell’s Kitchen by night, poor Daredevil (Charlie Cox) has been yanked in and out of MCU canon a few times, delivering a really solid Netflix series before going unmentioned and unseen for far too long. Now, baddie Vincent D’Onofrio returns, on a collision course with Daredevil once more in what’s hopefully a more grounded and meaty alternative to Marvel’s weightless episodic programming of late.

The contrast between the justice Murdock delivers in the courtroom versus his more gruff antics on the streets has always proven fruitful for narrative pathos, so it’s a welcome revival, we’d say.

Good American Family: Miniseries (March 19)

An American family adopts a European orphan, and begins to suspect that she’s actually far older than they’ve been told. This could be both the plot to the splashy horror movie Orphan, and the tragic true story of Natalia Grace, a child with dwarfism who was shockingly accused by her foster parents of only pretending to be a vulnerable child.

It’s real lurid tabloid stuff, now seemingly put to rest through courts and health diagnostics (Grace was indeed eight years old when her suspicious new family took her in). So, of course, there’s gonna be a miniseries dramatising the events, with Ellen Pompeo and Mark Duplass as the Midwestern parents in question. The drama is retold from multiple points of view, capturing the assumptions and biases that lead to a troubling case like this.

O’Dessa (March 20)

Now this looks like a weird one. An original, post-apocalyptic musical with seeming ties to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, it stars Sadie Sink as a rock-n-rollin’ farm girl at the neon-drenched ends of the earth. Murray Bartlett hams it up as an evil Orwellian dictator. The hilarious Regina Hall has no eyebrows as Bartlett’s henchwoman. The costumes, hair, makeup and aesthetic are eye-boggling.

What on earth is this movie? In a sea of predictable genre efforts and streaming service time-wasters, I kind of don’t care whether this is great or terrible—I’m just a bit chuffed that it exists.