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Reviews, announcements and updates. Every film scored and roasted with receipts, released or not.
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act
A web series tries on a feature-length costume, and it mostly fits, even if you can still see the seam where episode 8 got stapled to episode 9.
The Death of Robin Hood
A24 hands Hugh Jackman a bow, a death wish, and Logan's exact emotional blueprint, then dares you to notice.
Toy Story 5
Pixar finally let the adult in the room direct a Toy Story, and America is so grateful it's handing over $175 million like a kid handing over a credit card at a Disney Store.
Your Fault: London
The same toxic romance you already streamed once, now with a British accent and an Oxford postcode.
Disclosure Day
Spielberg's most gorgeous puzzle box in years, right up until you open it and realize half the pieces were painted on.
Find Your Friends
A desert revenge thriller with a real wound at its center and no steady idea what to do with it.
I Am Frankelda (Soy Frankelda)
The most gorgeous unfinished sentence in Mexican cinema history: the hands moved mountains, but the mouth forgot what it was trying to say.
Time of Death (2026)
A decaying prison, a fracturing reality, and a distribution strategy that basically tells you everything you need to know before you press play.
Kraken (2026)
Norway spent five million euros to hide a monster in a fjord for 100 minutes and somehow made that your problem.
Stop! That! Train!
It's Airplane! in a corset and six-inch heels, and honestly? It mostly pulls it off.
The Furious
The plot is a kidnapping thriller you have seen a hundred times, but the fists are so fast and the fun is so genuine that you will forget to care.
Disclosure Day
The master returns to the skies forty-nine years after Close Encounters and finds the wonder is still his, even when the conspiracy script keeps grabbing the wheel.
Scary Movie (2026)
A 24% on Rotten Tomatoes that somehow feels like a triumph, because when you spent 25 years in the gutter, any daylight looks like a penthouse.
Office Romance
A glossy Netflix rom-com that commits a million HR violations and forgets the one thing a rom-com cannot fake: chemistry.
Masters of the Universe
He-Man finally has the power, but the script keeps cracking jokes about it before anyone in the theater gets the chance.
She's the He
A high school comedy that steals the right wing's ugliest punchline and walks away with the most sincere coming-out story of the year.
Power Ballad
John Carney makes the exact same movie for the fifth time, and the maddening part is that it still works.
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act
A YouTube series stapled together and sold at cinema prices, and somehow it still earns the ticket.
Backrooms
A teenager turned a free YouTube creepypasta into A24's biggest hit ever, and the maddening part is he mostly earned it.
The Backrooms
The YouTube kid did not just make a movie, he beat Hollywood at its own game, then left half the audience standing in an empty yellow hallway wondering where the plot went.
The Mandalorian and Grogu
Star Wars returns to theaters and remembers it used to know how to make people cheer. The Mandalorian and Grogu is the safest possible reentry point. It is also the most enjoyable Star Wars movie in nearly a decade.
Mating Season
The Big Mouth creative team has decided to do Big Mouth again, but with anthropomorphic animals dealing with relationship politics instead of puberty. It is exactly as funny and exactly as exhausting as that sounds.
I Love Boosters
Boots Riley finally returns with a heist comedy that has more ideas than minutes, which is both its charm and its problem.
Reckless
A movie so generic the title is doing more storytelling than the script.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (35th Anniversary Re-Release)
Thirty-five years later, T2 walks back into theaters and casually reminds every modern blockbuster what cinema used to look like when grown-ups made it.
Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat II is exactly the movie the title promises. Spines come out. Heads come off. Johnny Cage finally shows up. If you wanted prestige cinema you should have read the marquee.
Obsession
A 750 thousand dollar horror film about a cursed wish out-earned half of Hollywood's franchise machine, and the only thing more cursed than the toy is the crew's pay stub.
Animal Farm
Andy Serkis adapted George Orwell's Animal Farm. Seth Rogen voices Napoleon. The result is the most expensive misunderstanding of source material in recent memory.
Devil May Cry Season 2 (Netflix)
Adi Shankar's Devil May Cry is back, louder and more chaotic, and the second season finally lets Dante crack the jokes the show kept implying he would. The action is excellent. The plot is mostly an excuse.
The Punisher: One Last Kill
Frank Castle tries to live without violence. Frank Castle does not live without violence. The Punisher: One Last Kill is exactly the special presentation Marvel knew it had to make to keep Bernthal interested.
Lord of the Flies (Netflix Miniseries)
Jack Thorne adapted Lord of the Flies into four hours for Netflix and finally gave the book the room it deserves. The result is the best literary adaptation Netflix has produced in years.
Hokum
Adam Scott checks into a haunted Irish inn and Damian McCarthy proves once again that a single creaking room scares you more than a thousand jump scares ever could.
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Twenty years later, Andy is back, Miranda is back, and the print magazine industry that gave them all jobs is mostly not. The sequel works hardest when it stops pretending the world has not changed.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
Cronin scrubs the Tom Cruise stink off The Mummy with gore and gothic dread, then forgets to write a movie underneath the atmosphere.
Exit 8
A video game about spotting anomalies in a looping hallway becomes a tense, smart piece of liminal horror, which is the last sentence anyone expected to write.
You, Me & Tuscany
A romantic comedy so aggressively harmless it could be prescribed for anxiety. Halle Bailey is genuinely charming, the cinematography makes Tuscany look like a screensaver for 98 minutes, and the plot shows up fifteen minutes late with a contractually obligated airport chase. Perfectly fine. Which is the problem.
Alpha
Julia Ducournau followed up Titane by making something even more disturbing and somehow more beautiful. Alpha is body horror with a PhD.
They Will Kill You
Warner Bros made a horror-comedy that can't decide if it wants to scare you or make you laugh, so it does both at 60% effort.
Marc by Sofia
Sofia Coppola made a documentary about Marc Jacobs that is really about Sofia Coppola watching Marc Jacobs.
One Piece Season 2 (Netflix)
Netflix proved Season 1 wasn't a fluke. One Piece Season 2 is somehow even more unhinged and even more fun.
Loverboy: Vertrouw Niemand
A Dutch crime sequel that tackles human trafficking with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, but at least it swings hard enough to leave a mark.
Scrubs (2026 Revival)
Scrubs came back and somehow it works. Mainly because JD is now the age Dr. Cox was when he hated JD, and that irony writes itself.
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2
Marvel finally remembered that Daredevil works best when you can hear bones crack.
Project Hail Mary
A genuinely great space odyssey that lands on MGM Plus today, and yes, even Sally has to grudgingly hand it to Ryan Gosling.
Project Hail Mary
Ryan Gosling talks to a space spider for two hours and somehow made the whole planet cry. Andy Weir keeps getting away with it.
Hoppers
Pixar remembered it can build a wild original idea instead of resurrecting a franchise, and the result actually lands.
Scream 7
The franchise's biggest box-office hit and one of its weakest films, which is the most Scream thing that has ever happened.
Send Help
Sam Raimi crashes a plane onto a desert island and somehow lands a survival horror that owes nothing to anybody's franchise, you can feel the relief from here.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Nia DaCosta takes Alex Garland's script, a satanic cult, and an Alpha Infected named Samson, and builds the best film the franchise has ever coughed up, infection has never been this articulate.
Primate
A family chimp named Ben catches rabies and turns the living room into a kill box, Johannes Roberts delivers a nasty creature feature that's better than its premise has any right to be.
The Smashing Machine
Dwayne Johnson stopped being The Rock long enough to actually act, and Benny Safdie turned an MMA biopic into something that hurts in all the right ways.
The Conjuring: Last Rites
Ed and Lorraine Warren take one last haunting and the franchise takes nearly $500 million, the box office screamed louder than the reviews, which is its own kind of horror.
Weapons
You took the oldest horror trick, seventeen kids vanishing at once, and built a clockwork mystery so tight it makes most studio horror look like it skipped homework.
28 Years Later
You waited 28 years to reunite Boyle and Garland, shot the apocalypse on iPhones, and somehow made the divisiveness feel like the point.
Sinners
Your first original film, no franchise to hide behind, and you came out with twin Michael B. Jordans, 1932 Mississippi, an Irish vampire, and a record-setting awards run. Show-off.
Heretic
You took Hugh Grant, the most charming man alive, and weaponized that charm into a horror villain so good it got him Best Actor nominations. Cruelest casting trick of the year.
Terrifier 3
You turned a clown with a hacksaw into a $90 million business model, and you did it without a single line of dialogue.
The Substance
You made the most disgusting movie of the year into an Oscar-nominated mirror, and Hollywood had to applaud while it flinched.
Oddity
You built a whole haunted house out of one life-sized wooden man and the audacity actually worked.
Longlegs
You scared $128 million out of people by showing them almost nothing, then fumbled the part where you finally had to explain it.
MaXXXine
You closed the trilogy with neon, sleaze, and Mia Goth, and she carried the bag while the rest of you napped.
In a Violent Nature
You handed the camera to the killer and told the genre to watch its own reflection. Bold, slow, and occasionally a snooze.
Late Night with the Devil
A 1977 talk show goes to hell on live TV, and David Dastmalchian hosts the apocalypse with a TV smile that never quite reaches his eyes.
The Passenger
A two-hander road trip with Kyle Gallner holding a knife to the whole movie's throat, and it mostly works.
Talk to Me
Two YouTube pranksters made the slickest seance movie of the decade, and the joke is on every studio that ignored them.
Terrifier 2
You crowdfunded a movie that made people faint in the aisles and turned a silent clown into a slasher icon, so I cannot pretend you failed.
Smile
A grin-curse that was supposed to die on streaming instead grinned its way to $217 million, which is the scariest twist in the movie.
Pearl
You shot a secret prequel back-to-back with X, dressed it in Technicolor, and let Mia Goth monologue her way into horror history.
Barbarian
You turned a double-booked Airbnb into one of the nastiest bait-and-switches in modern horror, and you did it for four million dollars.
Bodies Bodies Bodies
You turned a party game into a clout-culture autopsy, and the corpses were funnier than the mystery.
Nope
You shot a UFO Western on IMAX and dared us to look up, which is the whole terrifying point.
The Black Phone
You turned a Joe Hill short story into a $161 million Blumhouse machine, and you did it on the back of two kids and one terrifying mask.
X
A 1970s grindhouse throwback that knows desire and decay are the same horror movie.
Midsommar
You turned a breakup into a folk-horror nightmare lit like a vitamin D commercial.
Us
Your follow-up to Get Out swings for a doppelganger invasion and mostly lands the punch.
Hereditary
A grief autopsy that happens to summon a cult, and your first feature, no less. Show-off.
A Quiet Place
You turned 'shut up' into a $340 million blockbuster. Jim from the office, who knew.
It
You floated a 700 million dollar coming-of-age movie that occasionally remembers to be scary.
Get Out
A meet-the-parents nightmare that won an Oscar and rewired what mainstream horror is allowed to be about.
The Witch
You made a flawless 1630s nightmare, then watched audiences boo it for not having a clown.
It Follows
You turned a thing that just walks toward you into the best 2 million dollars horror ever spent.
The Babadook
You made a grief allegory so good the monster moved out and became a pride icon.