2026 Movies Ranked: An Ongoing Ranking
2026 films ranked worst to best.
Films reviewed: 165
Last updated: September 7, 2026
Top 10
1
Hadestown: The Musical
A Stunning Cinematic Achievement
★★★★
2
Tuner
“EXHILARATING”
★★★★
3
The Weight
“TENSE”
★★★★
4
Wicker
“DELIGHTFUL”
★★★★
5
Minotaur
“DEVASTATING”
★★★★
6
Hope
“GLORIOUS”
★★★★
7
The Man I Love
“HAUNTING”
★★★★
8
Club Kid
“EXHILARATING”
★★★★
9
The Unknown
“UNSETTLING”
★★★★
10
La Gradiva
“DEVASTATING”
★★★★
The Full Ranking
165.
Outcome
(2026)
Without an ounce of honesty or a funny joke, Outcome spends 76 empty minutes without delivering any of the insight its premise promises.
Where to watch: Apple TV
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164.
Sleepwalker
(2026)
Sleepwalker has a solid hook in its grief-fueled setup, but it never finds real tension or insight, leaving you wishing you were the one sleeping.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Buy/Rent
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163.
Her Private Hell
(2026)
Her Private Hell lives up to its title, trapping Nicolas Winding Refn’s neon obsessions inside a shapeless, punishing, and nearly unbearable misfire.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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162.
Mercy
(2026)
Painful visuals, a plot full of holes, and muddled ideas about AI justice make Mercy a premium release that feels pointless, leaving Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson stuck in a Screenlife thriller with no mercy for its viewers.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Buy/Rent
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161.
Charlie Harper
(2026)
Well-shot but painfully shallow, Charlie Harper drifts through half-baked ideas about love and ambition without the honesty or insight to make any of them matter.
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160.
Love of Your Life
(2026)
★
Love of Your Life approaches grief and healing with plenty of sentiment but remarkably little emotional honesty.
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159.
Sacrifice
(2026)
★
Sacrifice invites us to laugh at millionaires being humiliated while also making us cringe for the millionaires humiliated for taking part in it.
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158.
Bad Apples
(2026)
★
Jonatan Etzler’s Bad Apples, led by Saoirse Ronan, promises a bold morality tale but delivers a shallow and evasive satire that entertains at first before completely falling apart.
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157.
“Wuthering Heights”
(2026)
★
Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is a catastrophe, even if we ignore the sheer number of missed opportunities created by her decision to water down the novel, isolating the romance from a far richer source.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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156.
Gentle Monster
(2026)
★
Marie Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster wastes Léa Seydoux’s strong performance on a wretched drama that takes on one of cinema’s hardest subjects and responds with evasions, clumsy parallels, and toothless filmmaking.
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155.
The Mandalorian and Grogu
(2026)
★
A filler season compressed into two hours, The Mandalorian and Grogu offers improved production values but no reason to care.
Where to watch: Disney Plus, Buy/Rent
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154.
Leviticus
(2026)
★
With a strong idea and little else, Leviticus struggles to build characters we care about or effective dread, relying on repetitive imagery and predictable shocks.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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153.
Scary Movie
(2026)
★
Even with Anna Faris and Regina Hall as game as ever, Scary Movie 6 mostly proves why the theatrical spoof disappeared in the first place.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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152.
This Is Not a Test
(2026)
★
This Is Not a Test’s intriguing coming-of-age zombie premise is undone by a clumsy first act, poorly staged action, and a heavy-handed approach to grief.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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151.
Sheep in the Box
(2026)
★
Kore-eda’s Sheep in the Box raises familiar questions about grief, family, and artificial life, but its AI drama feels too derivative and a retread of better science-fiction films.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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150.
Moana
(2026)
★
Disney’s live-action Moana keeps the songs and story intact, but its overly faithful approach leaves the remake artificial, uncanny, and short on purpose.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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149.
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
(2026)
★
Zoey Deutch leads a Hollywood odyssey built on one big naughty idea, celebrity cameos, and nonstop bits. The result is loud, dated, and obnoxious.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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148.
Ready or Not: Here I Come
(2026)
★
Ready or Not 2 brings Samara Weaving back in the wedding dress but wastes her on a sequel with no suspense, no creativity, and no reason to exist.
Where to watch: Disney Plus, Buy/Rent
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147.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
(2026)
★
What fills the 133 minutes instead is investigation, repetition, and emotional beats the script sets up and then abandons, with bursts of genuine horror scattered across the runtime like reminders of what it could have been.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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146.
Michael
(2026)
★
Michael has Jaafar Jackson’s uncanny performance, and the songs are the songs, but the film itself has no point of view on its own subject.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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145.
The Bride!
(2026)
★
Bale’s monster is the one coherent arc; everything else splinters and frustrates.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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144.
Disclosure Day
(2026)
★
Disclosure Day plays like the rotten child of J.J. Abrams and M. Night Shyamalan, not the work of the master.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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143.
Supergirl
(2026)
★★
Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl adapts Woman of Tomorrow with little of the comic’s emotional depth, delivering a derivative adventure led by a charismatic Milly Alcock.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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142.
I Live Here Now
(2026)
★★
Despite a strong start and standout turns from Sheryl Lee and Matt Rife, Julie Pacino’s I Live Here Now becomes a hollow genre exercise—visually bold, but thematically overstuffed.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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141.
One Night Only
(2026)
★★
Where to watch: In Theaters
Review coming soon
140.
Youngblood
(2026)
★★
Youngblood wants to confront race, masculinity, and the culture of hockey, but its conflicting ideas and weak execution leave it as a well intentioned film that never comes together.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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139.
Thrash
(2026)
★★
Buried in Thrash is a watchable shark movie that needed more kills and less talking.
Where to watch: Netflix
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138.
Whistle
(2026)
★★
Whistle is a watchable but uninspired, low-budget riff on Final Destination that moves fast but lacks style.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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137.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
(2026)
★★
Like the first film, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is more a collection of reels than a cohesive film, invested in cramming as many references as possible at breakneck pace while the story and characters underneath remain as shallow as a Dry Bones’ skull.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Buy/Rent
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136.
The Mother and the Bear
(2026)
★★
The Mother and the Bear is a low-key Winnipeg comedy-drama with a strong lead performance from Kim Ho-jung, but its central portrait stays at arm’s length.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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135.
Couture
(2026)
★★
Couture is a frustrating ensemble film in which good intentions are evident throughout, but the flow never fully clicks. The stories stay surface-level, never digging deeper into the fashion industry or the lives of these characters.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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134.
Balls Up
(2026)
★★
Peter Farrelly pairs Wahlberg and Hauser for a raunchy trip in a version of Brazil that speaks Spanish, connects the Amazon to Rio, and mistakes stereotypes for comedy.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video
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133.
Hokum
(2026)
★★
Hokum gives Adam Scott a great horror showcase, but McCarthy’s third feature keeps shifting genres and never lets its individual scares cohere.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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132.
Dracula
(2026)
★★
Luc Besson goes for gothic romance in his Dracula adaptation, but between awful VFX, nonexistent chemistry, and tonal whiplash, the seduction is simply not there.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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131.
Protector
(2026)
★★
Built on the bones of Taken, Rambo, and John Wick, Protector spends most of its runtime going through the motions before one late twist gives its mess a faint afterlife.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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130.
They Will Kill You
(2026)
★★
Sokolov arrives in Hollywood with real style and a committed Zazie Beetz, but They Will Kill You spends so much energy wearing its influences that it never quite finds a voice of its own.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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129.
A Private Life
(2026)
★★
A Private Life is carried entirely by Jodie Foster, whose all-French performance is the film’s only true draw. In a role demanding intensity, vulnerability, and absolute commitment, she delivers all three, creating a story through her performance that feels far richer than the one written on the page.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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128.
Parallel Tales
(2026)
★★
Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales has sharp moments of thriller craft, but its overlong structure turns a promising Hitchcockian experiment into a complete mess.
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127.
Mile End Kicks
(2026)
★★
Mile End Kicks captures Montreal’s indie scene with affection, but a disjointed plot and an abrasive lead that tests the audience’s patience keep this autobiographical follow up far less than satisfying.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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126.
Carolina Caroline
(2026)
★★
Parked in roadside towns and set to endless country songs, Carolina Caroline offers charm and chemistry but little new beyond its good-looking leads.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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125.
Onslaught
(2026)
★★
Onslaught builds considerable anticipation as its pieces come together, only for its surprisingly tame action to ultimately fail to live up to it.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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124.
Coward
(2026)
★★
Coward finds tenderness in its central romance, but its ideas about art, refuge, cowardice, and war trauma remain frustratingly underdeveloped.
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123.
The Choral
(2026)
★★
The Choral might scratch British prestige itch, but its jumbled tone keeps the story from truly singing the way it wants to.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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122.
Fjord
(2026)
★★
Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord has the formal precision of his best work, but a stacked-deck script reduces a genuinely complex moral conflict into a self-satisfied Oscar wannabe.
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121.
Minions & Monsters
(2026)
★★
Minions & Monsters is not the worst of the franchise, but its monster-movie chaos, recycled jokes, and thin story make it another forgettable yellow cash machine.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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120.
Nagi Notes
(2026)
★★
In Nagi Notes, Koji Fukada turns a rural Japanese town into a gentle study of grief, friendship, and artistic solitude, though the film often feels too delicate for its own good.
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119.
Touch Me
(2026)
★★
While Touch Me‘s offbeat premise, clever jokes, and engaging leads keep it watchable, the film loses steam as it recycles its gags and ideas, leaving its latter half feeling stretched.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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118.
The Death of Robin Hood
(2026)
★★
The Death of Robin Hood gives the legendary outlaw a Logan-style farewell. Hugh Jackman excels, but the film’s bleak, joyless approach feels increasingly familiar.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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117.
Attack on Paradise
(2026)
★★
Attack on Paradise delivers a grounded action hero, but familiar storytelling and underwhelming fight choreography keep it from standing out.
Review coming soon
116.
God Skin
(2026)
★★
God Skin combines Muay Thai-inspired action, nanotechnology, and video game spectacle into an entertaining but derivative fantasy with an uneven message.
Review coming soon
115.
Exit 8
(2026)
★★
Exit 8 recreates the tension of spotting anomalies, even if stretching the short-game premise to feature length proves uneven.
Where to watch: Shudder, Buy/Rent
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114.
We Bury the Dead
(2026)
★★
We Bury the Dead explores grief against a backdrop of efficient zombie horror, though it suffers from familiarity in narrative structure.
Where to watch: Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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113.
Midwinter Break
(2026)
★★
Midwinter Break gives Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds a beautifully observed late-life marriage to play, but Polly Findlay’s subdued approach keeps the conflict true to life without ever making it dramatically compelling.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Buy/Rent
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112.
In Waves
(2026)
★★
Beautifully animated but dramatically thin, In Waves turns Dungo’s autobiographical graphic novel into a romance that never catches the wave.
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111.
Late Fame
(2026)
★★
The film works better as a portrait of this artistic community than as a narrative exploring its themes.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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110.
Enola Holmes 3
(2026)
★★
Enola Holmes 3 still has enough franchise charm, but the mystery is weak, the stakes artificial, and the darker direction drains the fun.
Where to watch: Netflix
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109.
The End of Oak Street
(2026)
★★
The End of Oak Street nails its opening, though once the creatures turn hostile the film struggles to find urgency, leaving Anne Hathaway and a strong Giacchino score to hold up sequences that look exciting without ever being exciting.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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108.
Scream 7
(2026)
★★
Scream 7 brings Sidney Prescott back for a nostalgia-heavy sequel that plays it safe, delivering competent thrills but little new urgency for a franchise that once thrived on reinvention.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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107.
Deep Water
(2026)
★★
Deep Water is a flawed guilty pleasure that offers some pleasure in practical effects and old-school disaster mayhem.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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106.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
(2026)
★★
Verbinski’s comeback is packed with craft, set-piece clarity, and a strong Haley Lu Richardson performance, yet the film’s satire stays stuck at “technology bad” and collapses into a loud, dull finish.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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105.
Mother Mary
(2026)
★★
Mother Mary has the performers, premise, and first act of a great pop-star chamber drama, but David Lowery keeps burying its best ideas under increasingly self-serious symbolism.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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104.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
★★
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple delivers striking set pieces and a scene-stealing Ralph Fiennes, but loses the human bite that made its predecessor work.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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103.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
(2026)
★★
Tom Holland remains an engaging Spider-Man, but Brand New Day settles for familiar ideas, a weak villain, and endless franchise setup.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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102.
The Moment
(2026)
★★
Despite a strong start full of industry absurdities and a layered performance from Charli xcx, The Moment falters with rushed character work and a scattered second half.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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101.
The Rivals of Amziah King
(2026)
★★
The Rivals of Amziah King has great performances and plenty of personality, but its sprawling story struggles to come together as a cohesive feature.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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100.
I Love Boosters
(2026)
★★
Keke Palmer leads a stylish and chaotic satire in I Love Boosters, a film with plenty of personality but too many ideas fighting for space
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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99.
Fatherland
(2026)
★★
Sandra Hüller brings the only warmth Pawlikowski’s Fatherland allows. A beautifully shot, intellectually distant third pass through divided Europe.
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98.
Honey Bunch
(2026)
★★★
Honey Bunch delivers claustrophobic horror in a treatment center, with striking visuals and chilling music that outweigh its uneven storytelling.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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97.
Bunnylovr
(2026)
★★★
Bunnylovr is an effective portrait of self-destruction, whether or not you want to sit with that discomfort will determine how much you connect with it.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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96.
Home Bodies
(2026)
★★★
Home Bodies is an intriguing Canadian sci-fi that benefits immensely from a great production design and precise directing.
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95.
Ice Cream Man
(2026)
★★★
Ice Cream Man recaptures the spirit of 80s family adventures before turning them into gleefully nasty horror, delivering inventive kills despite a paper-thin story.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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94.
Buddy
(2026)
★★★
Buddy turns a Barney-style kids show into a nasty horror comedy, with an unforgettable first 30 minutes, before it inevitably runs out of steam.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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93.
Jimpa
(2026)
★★★
Jimpa’s first half is filled with sharp humor, strong performances, and a beautifully realized family dynamic. But without a crucial sense of progression in the second half, it ends up testing the patience of even the most willing viewers.
Where to watch: Kino Film Collection, Buy/Rent
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92.
Frank & Louis
(2026)
★★★
Frank & Louis is an insightful, empathetic exploration of aging behind bars, elevated by compelling performances, even if it sticks to a well-worn template.
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91.
See You When I See You
(2026)
★★★
See You When I See You follows a comedian in PTSD treatment after his sister’s suicide, balancing grief with humor and a gently hopeful tone.
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90.
Dead Man's Wire
(2026)
★★★
A stylish throwback to 70s thrillers, Dead Man’s Wire explores media spectacle, class anger, and one man’s desperation against the system, effective but lacking distinction.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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89.
The Dog Stars
(2026)
★★★
The Dog Stars works despite itself, a film which frequently frustrates but whose final destination makes the journey worthwhile.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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88.
Paper Tiger
(2026)
★★★
Paper Tiger extends James Gray’s familiar family tensions into mob territory, with Adam Driver shining in a film that remains at arm’s length.
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87.
Cold Storage
(2026)
★★★
Jonny Campbell and David Koepp have a nasty B-movie hook and the right central pairing, but Cold Storage keeps reaching for self-serious stakes and ends up too tame to satisfy.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Buy/Rent
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86.
Wasteman
(2026)
★★★
Cal McMau’s debut Wasteman showcases two rising stars and gritty realism, but its minimal script limits how far the film can go.
Where to watch: MUBI, Buy/Rent
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85.
The Rip
(2026)
★★★
The Rip is an entertaining pressure cooker that builds effective suspense, pops in the third-act chase, and stays watchable on sheer star chemistry.
Where to watch: Netflix
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84.
Roommates
(2026)
★★★
Despite the influence the Sandler family must have had on the production, what can be said about Roommates is that it feels like a Chandler film through and through, which means both its strengths and weaknesses carry over.
Where to watch: Netflix
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83.
The Birthday Party
(2026)
★★★
Léa Mysius crafts edge-of-your-seat tension in The Birthday Party, but its fascinating character secrets and themes remain frustratingly underexplored.
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82.
Josephine
(2026)
★★★
Beth de Araújo’s Josephine is a bruising child-POV drama, elevated by a remarkable Mason Reeves, yet repeatedly undercut once the film has to operate in the bluntly sketched adult world around her.
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81.
I Want Your Sex
(2026)
★★★
For a while, I Want Your Sex delivers big raunchy laughs and jaw-dropping moments thanks to Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman’s commitment, but after the excitement wears off, the jokes slowly give way to a second half that grows repetitive and oddly dull.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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80.
Project Hail Mary
(2026)
★★★
Project Hail Mary is at its best in the space sequences, particularly when it focuses on Ryland solving problems on his own, or finding ways to communicate with the other ship.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Buy/Rent
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79.
The Match
(2026)
★★★
A documentary about the most argued-over ninety minutes in football, told with craft and rhythm, but unwilling to sit with the cultural fracture that made the Hand of God a forty-year wound.
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78.
The Invite
(2026)
★★★
With Norton and Cruz lighting up the room, The Invite is frequently funny and uncomfortable in the right ways, but its escalation feels more scripted than inevitable, and its “maturity” rarely goes beyond the surface.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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77.
Hoppers
(2026)
★★★
Arguably Pixar’s safest film yet, Hoppers has appealing creature design and comic charm, but, like its characters, it seems resigned to its boundaries.
Where to watch: Disney Plus, Buy/Rent
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76.
The Deb
(2026)
★★★
The Debis a competent and entertaining musical with catchy songs and fun performances.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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75.
Omaha
(2026)
★★★
Omaha is undeniably powerful, with an emotional weight that is impossible to forget. It succeeds in humanizing a painful reality and delivering soul-crushing performances. Yet, for all its strengths, it risks feeling like a film that highlights a devastating problem without providing any real perspective on its consequences or how to prevent it.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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74.
Colony
(2026)
★★★
Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony is a confident, well-built zombie film that never challenges Train to Busan, but still delivers a good time.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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73.
The Wrong Girls
(2026)
★★★
The Wrong Girls pairs Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat for a superpowered stoner comedy that works best when it simply lets its two stars hang out.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
Review coming soon
72.
In the Blink of an Eye
(2026)
★★★
In the Blink of an Eye is a sincere three-timeline sci-fi drama with fluid editing and a gorgeous score by Thomas Newman.
Where to watch: Disney Plus
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71.
Masters of the Universe
(2026)
★★★
Despite some narrative shortcomings and over-reliance on James Gunn’s brand of humor, Masters of the Universe wins you over with its balance of ultra-silliness, nostalgia, and surprisingly thrilling action setpieces.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video
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70.
The Christophers
(2026)
★★★
A quick chamber piece shot in spare time, The Christophers relies on McKellen’s wit and venom to keep us engaged, and he more than delivers.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Buy/Rent
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69.
How to Make a Killing
(2026)
★★★
John Patton Ford packages an inheritance murder romp like a sleek crowd-pleaser, and Glen Powell’s costume-shift charm keeps it moving, even when the kills and tension never escalate enough to leave a mark.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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68.
Hot Water
(2026)
★★★
Ramzi Bashour frames Hot Water as a Sundance road movie built on intimacy, atmosphere, and two strong actors, and it delivers genuine warmth, but not much beyond that.
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67.
Rose of Nevada
(2026)
★★★
Rose of Nevada mesmerizes with its textures and ghostly sound design, even as its narrative grows vague and repetitive.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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66.
Alpha
(2026)
★★★
Ducournau’s Alpha uses haunting visuals to explore AIDS through metaphor, capturing fear and fragile relationships with uneven but striking results.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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65.
Normal
(2026)
★★★
Normal never reaches the highs of its influences, but Odenkirk’s everyman presence and sharp timing keep it engaging from start to finish.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video
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64.
The Incomer
(2026)
★★★
The Incomer turns a remote Scottish island into a deadpan comedy playground, and Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, and Grant O’Rourke make it consistently charming, even if the film’s loose thematic follow-through feels undercooked.
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63.
Fuze
(2026)
★★★
Despite awkward structure and disengaged performances, Fuze grows into a sharp, efficient thriller with standout suspense sequences.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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62.
GOAT
(2026)
★★★
GOAT is high-energy to the point of overload, yet its creative animal world and roarball action make it an easy win for younger audiences.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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61.
Maddie's Secret
(2026)
★★★
John Early’s Maddie’s Secret is funny, odd, and surprisingly affecting, even if it crams in too many ingredients for its own good.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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60.
Propeller One-Way Night Coach
(2026)
★★★
Propeller One-Way Night Coach finds John Travolta revisiting his childhood with genuine affection, resulting in a modest, nostalgic trip.
Where to watch: Apple TV
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59.
Crime 101
(2026)
★★★
Crime 101 finds Bart Layton reviving the grown-up LA crime thriller with a competent, well-mounted fil, one that stays too boxed in by familiar characters and themes to truly stand out.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Buy/Rent
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58.
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
(2026)
★★★
A brisk, engaging, and optimistic primer that makes the AI debate feel legible, even if it cannot possibly cover everything.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Buy/Rent
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57.
Forever Your Maternal Animal
(2026)
★★★
Valentina Maurel’s Forever Your Maternal Animal is an intimate Costa Rican drama about family collapse and emotional responsibility.
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56.
Two Prosecutors
(2026)
★★★
Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors is a severe historical drama about Stalinist power, where every corridor, office, and official step becomes part of the oppression.
Where to watch: Criterion Channel, Buy/Rent
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55.
Dry Leaf
(2026)
★★★
A father retraces his daughter’s path through abandoned football fields in Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, a moving reflection on memory and loss.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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54.
The Gallerist
(2026)
★★★
The Gallerist is a loud satire with slick energy and a strong ensemble, even if it rarely finds a fresh angle on its target.
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53.
Moulin
(2026)
★★★
Moulin turns Jean Moulin’s final mission into a tense, respectable historical drama, strong in craft and performance but more conventional than expected from Nemes.
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52.
Karma
(2026)
★★★
Karma packs enough twists and turns to fill a compelling prestige mini-series, with the benefit of not making you wait ten episodes to see how it ends.
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51.
The Beloved
(2026)
★★★
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beloved is a direct, well-acted father-daughter drama, elevated by Javier Bardem, Victoria Luengo, and its sharp film-set sequences.
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50.
La Bola Negra
(2026)
★★★
Ambitious and impeccably crafted, The Black Ball is a rare Cannes epic that moves you in the moment and thins out the longer you sit with it.
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49.
Tangles
(2026)
★★★
Tangles uses animation beautifully to capture the cruelty of Alzheimer’s, even when its uneven humor and broad supporting characters keep it from becoming the devastating film it could have been.
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48.
A Woman's Life
(2026)
★★★
Bourgeois-Tacquet’s sophomore feature is a well-made if unmemorable portrait of a Lyon surgeon, anchored by another strong Léa Drucker performance.
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47.
undertone
(2026)
★★★
undertone may not be as thematically rich as its influences, but it is more than effective as a creepy, well-executed horror debut.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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46.
Backrooms
(2026)
★★★
Backrooms transforms the viral internet phenomenon into an effective feature film, sustained by remarkable production design, strong performances, and genuine dread.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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45.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
(2026)
★★★
Jane Schoenbrun’s meta-slasher has the year’s best sequences and a fearless Gillian Anderson, but still struggles to tie its ideas together.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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44.
The Magic Faraway Tree
(2026)
★★★
The Magic Faraway Tree finds its greatest pleasure in the wonder of discovery, when a strange place and a few unusual characters were enough to spark an adventure.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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43.
Coyote vs. Acme
(2026)
★★★
Coyote vs. Acme greatest strengths are the unavoidable real-life parallels and the surprisingly thoughtful development of Coyote himself.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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42.
The Devil Wears Prada 2
(2026)
★★★
A legacy sequel that earns its existence. The Devil Wears Prada 2 mourns the algorithm that kept it alive across twenty years of memes and reels.
Where to watch: Disney Plus, Buy/Rent
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41.
Bitter Christmas
(2026)
★★★
Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas is uneven by design, with a rough first half that eventually gives way to a witty and affecting reflection on legacy, and creative doubt.
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40.
No Rest for the Wicked
(2026)
★★★
No Rest for the Wicked blends gothic horror and forbidden romance into one of Fantasia 2026’s strongest directorial debuts, despite losing some focus in its second half.
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39.
Primate
(2026)
★★★
A viciously entertaining and gory creature feature that knows exactly what it is, Primate offers every savage thrill you might want from a chimp-gone-rogue story.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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38.
Narciso
(2026)
★★★
Narciso blends period detail, political tension, and homoerotic charge in a story set in 1959 Paraguay, where a rock-and-roll singer draws too much attention to himself.
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37.
Finding Emily
(2026)
★★★
A proof that a good old-fashioned rom-com can still work
Where to watch: In Theaters
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36.
The Samurai and the Prisoner
(2026)
★★★
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s first samurai film is a visually striking murder mystery whose real pleasure lies in the encounters between a lord and his prisoner.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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35.
All of a Sudden
(2026)
★★★
A deeply affecting work, though undeniably too long and at times lecture-like, Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden asks the viewer to leave the film a different person, and earns the request.
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34.
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL
(2026)
★★★★
By tightening the scope and shifting focus to Rita, this anime adaptation becomes more than a reset—it’s a sharp, affecting evolution.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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33.
Redux Redux
(2026)
★★★★
Redux Redux uses the multiverse concept to tell a relentless revenge story, blending tense action with a sharp emotional core.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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32.
Erupcja
(2026)
★★★★
Erupcja blends improvisation with observational narration to explore themes of self-discovery and emotional conflict.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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31.
Hamlet
(2026)
★★★★
Aneil Karia’s Hamlet, starring Riz Ahmed, is a vivid and effective translation of Shakespeare to modern London, with its performances and direction justifying its existence more than its new perspective.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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30.
Good Boy
(2026)
★★★★
Heel may not dive deep into its themes, but it thrives on Komasa’s precise pacing, claustrophobic tension, and commanding performances.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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29.
Hen
(2026)
★★★★
Hen is both entertaining and provocative, blending Greek tragedy with barnyard resilience in one of TIFF’s most memorable Platform entries.
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28.
California Schemin'
(2026)
★★★★
California Schemin’ thrives on catchy music, sharp humor, and a bond between friends tested by ambition and deception.
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27.
American Doctor
(2026)
★★★★
American Doctor follows three physicians from different backgrounds into Gaza and the responsibility they feel after witnessing its devastation.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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26.
Blaise
(2026)
★★★★
Blaise is a delightful, clever satire, and though it doesn’t break new ground in its critique, it entertains with its absurdities while poking fun at the worst kind of human beings.
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25.
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
(2026)
★★★★
A scrappy, inventive blend of comedy, creativity, and Toronto spirit, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie turns nearly two decades of work into a love letter to Toronto, comedy, and creative collaboration.
Where to watch: Crave, Buy/Rent
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24.
LifeHack
(2026)
★★★★
Lifehack is the best screenlife film to date, flying by with the kind of momentum most big-budget thrillers can only dream of. Beneath the high-speed hacking and clever twists, there’s real heart—and a sharp, grounded look at what it feels like to be young and online today.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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23.
Fing!
(2026)
★★★★
Fing! is a delightful Sundance 2026 family adventure with a practical puppet creature, vivid production design, and a sweet arc for its bratty heroine.
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22.
The Drama
(2026)
★★★★
With Zendaya and Pattinson instantly convincing together, and Borgli bringing his sharpest writing and strongest control yet, The Drama reveals a more daring relationship film beneath the look of a mainstream romance.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus, Buy/Rent
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21.
Toy Story 5
(2026)
★★★★
Toy Story 5 gives you all you can want out of a Toy Story film: new toys you want to have, new jokes that make you laugh, and, as always, scenes that will make you weep embarrassingly.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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20.
Send Help
(2026)
★★★★
Send Help uses its wacky setup for tonal chaos, gross-out shocks, and a McAdams-versus-O’Brien dynamic that keeps shifting in wickedly satisfying ways.
Where to watch: Disney Plus, Buy/Rent
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19.
The Furious
(2026)
★★★★
Motorcycle chases, sledgehammers, and a climactic five-way showdown. The Furious delivers some of the most inventive and exhausting action you’ll see all year, if not ever.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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18.
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord
(2026)
★★★★
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord takes a few episodes to justify its existence, but when it does, it delivers some of the best Star Wars animation in years, anchored by Sam Witwer’s consistently excellent Maul.
Where to watch: Disney Plus
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17.
Obsession
(2026)
★★★★
Curry Barker’s Obsession is a shocking and hilarious horror that turns a sweet love story into a nightmare, featuring a star-making performance from Inde Navarrette.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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16.
The Odyssey
(2026)
★★★★
The most technically ambitious film of Nolan’s career
Where to watch: In Theaters
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15.
Tony
(2026)
★★★★
Tony is a huge win for Matt Johnson’s career, a fantastic transition into a studio film that is heartwarming, funny, and a genuine and interesting character study.
Where to watch: In Theaters
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14.
Orange-Flavoured Wedding
(2026)
★★★★
Christophe Honoré makes sprawling ensemble storytelling look effortless in Orange-Flavoured Wedding, a funny, intimate, and bittersweet family drama.
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13.
Iron Boy
(2026)
★★★★
Iron Boy is a heartfelt and gentle film about a farm boy’s journey of self-discovery, friendship, and family dynamics, told with charming hand-painted animation.
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12.
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
(2026)
★★★★
In The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Noah Segan strips the crime thriller down to character and city texture, gives John Turturro a role that fits him like a glove, and delivers an 88-minute throwback that stays consistently charming.
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11.
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
(2026)
★★★★
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning is a modern-day Trainspotting, kinder in tone but just as tragic in its view of friendship, class, and lost possibility.
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10.
La Gradiva
(2026)
★★★★
Marine Atlan’s accomplished debut, La Gradiva, uses Pompeii, adolescence, and a Parisian school trip to build a smart, unsparing portrait of young people forced too early into fixed roles.
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9.
The Unknown
(2026)
★★★★
The Unknown uses the body-swap genre to explore identity and self-disgust, with Léa Seydoux delivering a career-best performance.
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8.
Club Kid
(2026)
★★★★
Funny, fast, and more emotionally grounded than expected, Club Kid marks Jordan Firstman as a filmmaker with real control behind the chaos.
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7.
The Man I Love
(2026)
★★★★
Touching and a great showcase for Rami Malek, The Man I Love tells a familiar story in a clever way. Full of stunning moments on and off the stage, it builds to a heartfelt, gut-punch conclusion.
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6.
Hope
(2026)
★★★★
Hope is a thrilling, exhausting creature feature from Na Hong-jin, mounted with a scale and intensity rarely seen in modern cinema.
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5.
Minotaur
(2026)
★★★★
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur is a precise, oppressive, and emotionally brutal drama that uses one family to expose the machinery of a broken state.
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4.
Wicker
(2026)
★★★★
Hilarious, tender, yet cutting, Wicker is a fantastic modern fairy tale, anchored by Olivia Colman’s wonderfully grounded performance, Alexander Skarsgård’s deadpan sweetness, and Oscar-worthy makeup effects.
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3.
The Weight
(2026)
★★★★
The Weight is a lean, atmospheric wilderness thriller, with plenty of sustained suspense sequences and betrayal on a desperate gold run.
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2.
Tuner
(2026)
★★★★
With immersive sound, a star-making turn and genuine heart, Tuner proves impossible to dislike, delivering pure cinematic exhilaration.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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1.
Hadestown: The Musical
(2026)
★★★★
Brett Sullivan transforms Hadestown into a thrilling cinematic experience, creating one of the finest pro shots ever made and one of 2026’s best films.
Where to watch: Buy/Rent
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