The 77 Best Movies of 2026 So Far (and 29 More We Can’t Wait For)

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AS A HUGE fan and follower of both movies and sports, the former has one major advantage: There’s always something to look forward to. As a fan of the New York Jets, I don’t always have that luxury. As a fan of watching films, though, not only is there always something worth my time on the big screen or streaming, but there’s always several flicks down the line that will sound great or intriguing for one reason or another. Will they all turn out great? Of course not. But with sports and movies alike, excitement tends to be all about hope.

After a particularly strong 2025—movies like One Battle After Another and Sinners proved to be true standouts—how does 2026 pick up? With strength and energy, that’s how. The year has been filled with all sorts of great movies, from horror (like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and Obsession) to epics (like The Odyssey), to some pretty great comedies (like Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie and The Invite). It’s been a good year.

But we always like to look at not only what’s been good to date, but also what we can still be excited for—and that includes everything. We’re talking stuff on the calendar already, stuff we suspect could come out this year, and even stuff making noise in places like the Sundance Film Festival. Throughout the year, this list evolves from our most anticpated movies into our favorite movies, and always looks quite different in December than it did in January.

For now, we’ve got a lot we’ve loved, but still a lot to look forward to as well. Below, we’ve listed nearly 100 movies on our radar that we think you’ll be really interested in seeing.

Primate

If you’re interested in a killer chimpanzee B-movie slasher, then Primate is for you. The movie delivers what it promises. Ben the chimpanzee does some very terrible things on screen but it makes for quite an enjoyable experience.

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a direct sequel to last year’s 28 Years Later. And while the great Danny Boyle doesn’t return to direct, the movie is helmed by the more-than-capable Nia DaCosta and once again counts Alex Garland as its screenwriter. The real assets, though, are the movie’s leads: Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell are sensational, magnetic every minute they’re on screen amidst all sorts of post-apocalyptic chaos. Bring on part three.

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The Rip

Here’s a quick pitch for The Rip: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The longtime friends team up once again for The Rip, a cop thriller in the vein of movies you’ve probably seen several times before… but done particularly well. This twisty crime story involves a police team finding a ton of money in a stash house (the titular rip), and figuring out who may or may not be corrupt. In addition to our beloved duo, the cast is shockingly stacked: Steven Yeun, Kyle Chandler, Scott Adkins, and One Battle After AnotherAcademy Award nominee Teyana Taylor are all on board.

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Send Help

SAM RAIMI FANS, ASSEMBLE! For the first time since 2009, the master of gross effects and frenetic cameras is back with an original horror story in Send Help. Rachel McAdams plays a Survivor superfan who gets stuck on an island with her dickhead boss (Dylan O’Brien), and then the antics begin. Think Cast Away meets Misery meets Drag Me to Hell. It’s great stuff.

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The Wrecking Crew

Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista are a pair of cool dudes who, with The Wrecking Crew, set out and did exactly what they intended to do: Make a badass buddy action comedy. The movie finds the pair playing estranged brothers who reunite in Hawaii to investigate their father’s mysterious death; From there, we get lots of jokes, and a lot of (very violent!!!) action. It’s a good time! Honestly, if they want to make a couple sequels to this, I’d be her for it.

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The Moment

Part This Is Spinal Tap, part Josie and the Pussycats, and part Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Moment is Charli XCX’s movie for anyone who enjoys her music, persona, or both. A really fun movie about music, stardom, and celebrity in 2026.

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Pillion

Pillion was technically released initially in 2025 (and was also included on our list of favorite movies of that year), but we didn’t want to miss an opportunity to recommend it to people once again. This unique film follows a man (Harry Melling) who engages in an unexpected BDSM relationship with a biker he meets at random (Alexander Skarsgård). The movie is quite the tonal balancing act, at times funny, intense, raunchy, and heartbreaking, but it all comes together by the end. A delightful movie, and a great showcase for both leads.

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‘Wuthering Heights’

The classic novel comes to life on the big screen once again, this time from Promising Young Woman and Saltburn director Emerald Fennell, and with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the lead roles. Fennell, an Academy Award winner for her work on Promising Young Woman, has both big fans and big detractors at this point—but her take her, while book purists haven’t been thrilled, is a big, visually stunning epic romance. Robbie and Elordi are both up to the task as well, bringing a charged energy to roles that really need it. Alison Oliver, who recently shined on HBO’s Task, is another major highlight in a supporting role. An original soundtrack from Charli XCX helps to set the anachronistic mood and feels like a real cherry on top.

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Crime 101

This action-thriller, based on a book by Don Winslow, looks like a very solid entry in the genre that we’re going to call “Somewhat Resembles a Michael Mann Film.” And reviews have confirmed as much—the movie has often been compared to Heat, and while its tough to compare to Mann’s 1995 masterpiece, we’ll take just about anything in that vein. Look: If someone tells you there’s gonna be a crime thriller in the vein of Heat with Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, and Barry Keoghan leading the cast, how could you not be on board?

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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

One of our coolest directors, Gore Verbinski, makes his grand return with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die—his first movie since 2016’s A Cure For Wellness. If you don’t know Verbinski by name, you should know several of his movies: the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, The Ring, and Rango are among the standouts. Good Luck follows Sam Rockwell as a man who claims to be from the future and fighting off a rogue artificial intelligence. While the movie takes some pretty tough and labored tangents into on-the-nose satire, Rockwell’s performance and the practical effects keep the movie afloat as a fun sci-fi romp.

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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

Despite the title, you don’t need to know anything else about Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie before going to see it. Sure, this story of two inept dudes in a band who just want to play music at a bar—and go through all sorts of ordeals, including time-travel, to do it—has existed before in both web series and television series form. But you can just go in and laugh and the absolute madness of the movie. Trust us—you’ll have a good time with this one if you’re into “madness that makes you laugh.” This is a long-term passion project of Matt Johnson, who became well known recently for directing the underrated BlackBerry. His brash talent is again on display here.

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How to Make a Killing

We’re always in on Glen Powell, and How to Make a Killing marks his first foray into A24’s world as a leading man. This black comedy neo-noir comes from Emily the Criminal director John Patton Ford and follows Powell as a man who decides to take out a few members of his family in order to increase his chance at making a whole bunch of money via inheritance. The supporting cast joining Powell isn’t too shabby: Margaret Qualley, Jessica Henwick, Ed Harris, and Topher Grace are all along for the fun.

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The Napa Boys

The Napa Boys is a very specific cut for comedy fans. Remember when all those nondescript American Pie direct-to-video sequels were coming out? “American Pie Presents:..”? The Napa Boys imagines itself as one of those: self-impressed raunchy comedy with little tact—crossed, naturally with the wine bro nature of 2004’s Sideways. As a result, we get a movie that presents as a sequel to a franchise that both has long been running out of juice, and, in our world, never was. If you get the truly absurd brand of parody being presented here, you’re going to get a real kick out of it.

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Hoppers

Hoppers feels like a throwback to the golden age of Pixar. Not only is it an original story (at a time when the legendary animation studio has often been leaning into sequels, prequels, and more), but it’s a sweet and funny one at that. Following an animal-lover who uses Avatar-style technology to transfer her consciousness into a robotic beaver body that can discover what animals are thinking and saying, Hoppers actually turns into something of a conspiracy mystery story. With a voice cast that includes Jon Hamm, Dave Franco, and Meryl Streep among others, it’s a fun one for the whole family.

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War Machine

Look. This is one of those movies that you really don’t have to overthink. It’s Alan Ritchson—Reacher himself—taking on a giant alien robot monster thing. This is as much of a throwback to ’80s-style action filmmaking as we’re ever going to get, and it delivers as promised. The fact that the rest of the cast includes staples like Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, and Dennis Quaid is just a bonus.

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Undertone

Undertone has been positioning itself as A24’s next huge horror hit—and we’ll see how it lands. The filmfollows a supernatural podcaster who gets sent some particularly spooky recordings; Its soundscape has brought tons of hype, with many calling it the scariest experience of the year. A simple premise like that sometimes makes for a very solid horror movie.

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Project Hail Mary

Based onthe novel by Andy Weir(who also wrote The Martian), Project Hail Mary is a story of space exploration and a regular guy (played by Ryan Gosling) who gets involved. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (who are responsible for the Spider-Verse movies and directed 21 Jump Street) are behind the camera for this one, which has already proven to be a big, big hit. Gosling is basically on his own out in space for most of this, but it also includes a fun little alien guy named Rocky and a nice supporting performance by Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Hüller. The visuals here are worth seeing on the biggest screen you can find.

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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

2018’s Ready or Not was one of the most fun horror films of the last decade, and now eight years later we get to see Samara Weaving’s lead sucked back into the same twisted, bloody, violent games. The supporting cast—including David Cronenberg (!!!), March MH Flex star Elijah Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and The Pitt‘s Shawn Hatosy—is fantastic. The movie kind of keeps with the form of the first Ready or Not, so if you liked that one, you’ll certainly have a fun time with this one.

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Forbidden Fruits

Forbidden Fruits follows a secret coven of witches operating in a shopping mall. Like, guys, some premises you just have to accept for how good they are and see them out. The movie is a campy, fun, twisty turny ride. Understand what you’re getting into—a little bit of horror, a little bit of satire, and some fun twists—and it’s going to be a good time.

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They Will Kill You

Zazie Beetz (Atlanta, Deadpool 2) gets to lead her own horror/thriller movie with They Will Kill You, where she plays a woman who answers a help-wanted ad for a housekeeper in a luxury apartment building, only to find herself fighting for her life. The movie is pretty similar in tone to fellow horror/comedy Ready or Not 2, which we just talked about. But They Will Kill You leans more into its John Wick-style action and Kill Bill style plot, which sets it apart. The supporting cast, which includes Patricia Arquette, Heather Graham, and Industry star Myha’la, make it extra worth it.

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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a lot of things. It’s a time-travel story, a broad comedy, a gangster flick, and an action movie all rolled in one. And the title isn’t lying—there’s not just one version of Nick, a loan shark played by Vince Vaughn, but two, looking to sort out a timeline crisis that has gone very wrong. The two Vaughns are joined in the cast by James Marsden and Eiza Gonzalez (as the fellow titular characters) along with a very fun cast that includes Jimmy Tatro, Keith David, and Stephen Root. If you’re looking for a fun way to kill 100 minutes or so on streaming, this is a solid way to do it.

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The Drama

Robert Pattinson and Zendaya will star together in three films this year, the first of which is A24’s dark, dark, dark romantic comedy (of sorts) The Drama. Try your best to go into this movie as blind as possible, but be ready for a plot twist that comes really early on that might make you very uncomfortable. This is a movie not afraid to examine some of the darkest parts of American society while also leaning into some of the uncomfortable humor that comes with relationships, planning a wedding, and more. Pattinson and Zendaya are great as always, but Alana Haim also keeps her winning streak going with a very funny supporting role.

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The Christophers

Steven Soderbergh is, quite frankly, a genius mastermind of cinema. For someone to work as often and as well as he does just speaks volume to how one-of-a-kind talented he is. After releasing two movies in 2025, he’s back once again with The Christophers, a movie about a family who hires a forger to complete their estranged father’s art in order to sell it. Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel lead this one, and, well, it’s really good. A tender, emotional story about two people with a shared history—and more in common than they realize. Funny, heartfelt, and everything you want out of this kind of thing.

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Faces of Death

This movie from Cam and How to Blow Up a Pipeline director Daniel Goldhaber brings back the legendary/infamous moniker Faces of Death for a new twisted horror/thriller take on the very online ways we all live today. This time, it’s turned into a Silence of the Lambs style serial killer story—but the original Faces of Death mockumentary is deeply ingrained into this story’s fabric. It’s a perfect update on the original’s twisted, proto-viral creepiness.

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Pizza Movie

Think Harold and Kumar for a new generation. Led by Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo, Pizza Movie is a fun, psychedelic, throwback comedy. Special shoutout to Jack Martin, who, as a psychotic, fascistic, evil RA brings Sean Penn’s Academy Award-winning performance as Steven J. Lockjaw in One Battle After Another to mind.

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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

Another take on The Mummy! Sure! Why not. Lee Cronin’s last effort on Evil Dead Rise was a fun time, and here he gives a nasty, violent take on the classic monster. Blumhouse has made it a specific point to note that Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is not the one with Brendan Fraser… but for those fans, don’t worry—another entry in the Fraser-led entry is finally in the works too.

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Wasteman

A pair of true rising stars in David Jonsson and April MH Flex star Tom Blyth lead Wasteman, a super-intense 90-minute pressure cooker of prison movie. When one inmate (Jonsson) finds out he’s got a good chance to get out and go home and see his family, he wants to play things as safe as possible so not to mess it up. But that becomes quite difficult when his ambitious and rambunctious new cellmate (Blyth) enters the picture. Wasteman is a ride that won’t exactly make you feel good, but it will certainly put you both on edge and on the edge of your seat for its entire runtime.

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Normal

Sometimes I wonder if people like me are dying out. By that, of course, I mean people who know Bob Odenkirk first and foremost as a comedy legend. I grew up watching Mr. Show DVDs and laughing my ass off at whatever absurdity Odenkirk and his comedy partner David Cross would throw my way; The hit rate was absurdly high. These days, though, Odenkirk is still hitting at a super-high rate, but in an avenue I could’ve never imagined. After years of honing his skills as a dramatic actor in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, he’s now well into another pivot into an action star. The Nobody films are one thing, but his latest, Normal, puts him square in the middle of a small town-with-a-secret neo-Western mystery thriller kind of deal. And, once again, he pulls it off as the man at the center of everything. Odenkirk is joined here by a talented cast that also includes Henry Winkler and Lena Headey, and it’s a very fun time.

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Fuze

A WWII-era bomb appears in the middle of London, and a frenzy begins in Fuze, the latest movie from Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie. Our hero is played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and he’s working against a team of bank robbers played by Theo James and Sam Worthington.

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Mile End Kicks

There’s a certain type of millenial who Mile End Kicks, an semi autobiographical coming-of-age film from writer/director Chandler Levack, is made exactly for. The person who was obsessed with 2000s/2010s indie rock, who obsessively scoured the internet for features and reviews from Pitchfork and Spin, and who were seriously, truly affected by the movie Almost Famous. Levack, a former music journalist, brings her own take on Almost Famous here with a story that follows a writer (Barbie Ferreira) who heads to Montreal to write a book on Alanis Morissette’s iconic Jagged Little Pill album only to get involved with a local indie band who are actually pretty darn good. All sorts of relationship drama—including a quasi-love triangle—then begins to emerge. As one of the millennials who falls directly in the target demographic, I’d consider Mile End Kicks one of the year’s very best movies.

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Roommates

In one of the most interesting feats in all of movies in 2026, not only did Chandler Levack direct both Mile End Kicks and Roommates—but they came out on the same day! Roommates, a Happy Madison production for Netflix, is very different from the semi-autobiographical Mile End Kicks, however. This film is a fun, wild, sometimes dark comedy about a sort-of social outcast (Sadie Sandler, daughter of Adam) determined for college to go better than high school. She finds a free-spirited friend (Chloe East) who at first seems cool… and then things take a turn. It’s a fun movie that’s best fired up when you need a classic comedy laugh, but Levack’s directing (and soundtrack curation) help make it better than the average entry in this genre.

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Over Your Dead Body

A big year for Samara Weaving (who’s already led the very fun Ready or Not 2) and Jason Segel (who just finished up the third season of Shrinking) keeps getting bigger with the release of Over Your Dead Body. This dark comedy/thriller, which comes from director Jorma Taccone (ofThe Lonely Island fame), follows Weaving and Segel as a married couple who set out to go on a weekend vacation… only to discover that both were planning on having the other killed. Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis are also in the movie’s very fun cast.

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The Devil Wears Prada 2

Well, it’s The Devil Wears Prada 2. Just based on the title alone, you know what you’re getting into. This sequel to the beloved 2006 movie includes the whole gang: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all return. And while many movies of this sort are kind of a craven rehash of the original, The Devil Wears Prada 2 shows up with real energy, a cast full of game performers, and something to really say about the modern state of media. A great time at the movies that will certainly wind up being one of the year’s biggest and most successful. Watch it and make sure you can talk to everyone else about it.

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Hokum

Hokum finds Adam Scott in Ireland as an author spreading the ashes of his deceased parents, only to discover that he might be in a haunted house. Scott has been on a Severance-induced heater, and it only continues to burn with this well-done, exciting ghost story.

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Obsession

Keep an eye on the name Curry Barker. Barker, who comes from the same comedy-to-horror path as guys like Jordan Peele and Zach Cregger, has been something of a behind-the-scenes rising star in horror movie circles ever since his short film Milk & Serial came out in 2024, and now his debut feature film, Obsession has arrived—and let me just say, it absolutely rips. In short, it follows a guy who finds a supernatural stick called the One Wish Willow that will grant him any wish—which he uses to make his lifelong crush fall in love with him. And, well, this is a horror movie, so things do not go according to plan. It’s a nasty, nasty movie in the best possible way.

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In The Grey

Guy Ritchie’s latest is a thriller with Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill, and Eiza Gonzalez. You probably have a good idea of what that will yield, and if you’re into that idea… then why not?

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The Sheep Detectives

The premise of The Sheep Detectives—which follows a herd of sheep (all voiced by A-list stars) investigating the death of their beloved shepherd (Hugh Jackman) after he’s murdered in the middle of the night—is admittedly a bit preposterous. But trust me when I tell you this: The movie is utterly delightful. If you like a cozy mystery that will make you laugh and very possibly cry, this is the movie for you. A true gem for all ages.

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Is God Is

First-time director Aleshea Harris gets behind the camera to direct Is God Is, a Tarantino-esque story of two sisters seeking revenge on their wicked, evil father. The film, based on Harris’s play of the same name, is smart, thrilling, and has something to say. Worth your time.

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The Mandalorian & Grogu

You know what this is. The Star Wars series returns after three seasons on Disney+ in movie form for The Mandalorian and Grogu. It’s the first Star Wars movie since 2019’s not very good The Rise of Skywalker, and, honestly? This one isn’t particularly good either. But if you grew up in a certain way, Star Wars on the big screen means something. And so we’ll all be seeing The Mandalorian and Grogu at one point or another—being “good” is kind of beside the point.

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I Love Boosters

Between his first feature film Sorry to Bother You and his Prime Video series I’m a Virgo, Boots Riley has proven himself to be one of the most unique voices in modern cinema, bringing a striking style, a unique voice, and a political edge to very specific stories. I Love Boosters focuses on a group led by Keke Palmer who target popular fashion boutiques (owned by a wonderfully wicked exec played by Demi Moore) in order to sell them to others at discounted prices. The cast is sensational, with Naomie Ackie, Taylour Paige, Will Poulter, and Don Cheadle also joining Palmer and Moore while LaKeith Stanfield is back in a supporting role after leading Sorry to Bother You. It’s one of the year’s coolest movies.

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Backrooms

The concept of Backrooms began online, with posters and meme lovers creating creepy ideas about these endless, minimalist, plain liminal spaces. Now, director Kane Parsons—who refined the subject matter into a series of shorts on his KanePixels YouTube channel and at 20 is A24’s youngest filmmaker ever—is behind the camera for a feature-length adaptation of the concept, starring Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. And while the movie has its lumps (as you can imagine from any first-time director, let alone one who can’t even legally buy a beer), it’s got lots to keep even the most ardent horror fans on the edge of their seats. Imagine the ’90s-style found footage of The Blair Witch Project mixed with the bizarre surrealism of something like Lost Highway and the mysterious lore of early-season Lost. There’s a lot packed into that equation and the final product here somehow really, really, works—it’s the kind of movie that will stick with you for hours and days after watching. It’s an incredibly promising debut for the young Parsons.

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Pressure

Pressure finds Andrew Scott (who is always great, particularly in recent projects like All of Us Strangers, Ripley, and Wake Up Dead Man) leading the way as a meteorologist named James Stagg—a real guy who delivered a vital weather report ahead of WWII’s D-Day. The movie is based on a 2014 play of the same name, and also stars Brendan Fraser as Dwight D. Eisenhower. It’s Dad Cinema at its finest. History buffs, come hither!

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Masters of the Universe

This live-action take on Masters of the Universe finds Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam/He-Man; In this version of the story, he’s been banished to Earth, and needs to return to Eternia to stop Skeletor and his evil plan. The cast features a number of enjoyable people, including Camila Mendes, Idris Elba, Morena Baccarin, and Kristen Wiig. In a surprising turn, the secret weapon of the film turns out to be Jared Leto, whose evil energy as Skeletor is just unhinged, off-the-walls, and very very funny performance turns out to be just right. Think Barbie meets Guardians of the Galaxy. If you had a great time, we suggest you read some Masters comics after, too!

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Carolina Caroline

Samara Weaving and Kyle Gallner are two of our most underrated actors, showing up time after time in movies that are really quite great. In Carolina Caroline, they link up for a movie that feels like a total crime throwback, as a woman (Weaving) joins a criminal con man (Gallner) on the road for a series of, well, crimes. Things obviously escalate from there, and this Bonnie and Clyde-esque flick is a blast.

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Power Ballad

Power Ballad comes from director John Carney (who was behind the wonderful Once and Sing Street) and follows a conflict of authorship in songwriting between a fading rock star (Nick Jonas) and an also-fading never-was wedding singer (Paul Rudd). It’s a rock solid movie that makes the most of its super game cast.

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Scary Movie

Scary Movie is actually the sixth film in the Scary Movie series, but in true spoof fashion, it’s following the reboot patterns of Scream (2022), Halloween (2018), and I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) and just going with Scary Movie. Clever! Look—you know what you’re getting into here. It’s broad, it’s stupid, and you just might get offended. But you also might laugh a few times. You’re supposed to turn your brain off!

Let us not also forget the most important part: Anna Faris, Marlon Wayans, and Regina Hall (fresh off her turn in One Battle After Another) all return from the original films. The last Scary Movie was all the way back in 2013, and so there’s a lot to catch up on. The time to spoof movies like Weapons and The Substance has arrived.

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Disclosure Day

BLOCKBUSTER ALERT! Steven Spielberg returns to his sci-fi mystery roots with Disclosure Day, a totally awesome blockbuster epic with a script from David Koepp (who last year wrote Black Bag, Presence, and Jurassic World Rebirth, so two out of three being good ain’t bad) about some mysterious visitors on earth and the conspiracy to keep their presence a secret. The cast includes Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson, and Colin Firth. Spielberg is one of the true masters of cinema, and proves with Disclosure Day that he’s still got it.

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The Death of Robin Hood

Hugh Jackman playing an old, rugged, longing take on an iconic character. Sound familiar? That’s right: A24 takes a page from the Logan playbook in 2026 with The Death of Robin Hood, starring Jackman as an aged version of the titular character. Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski takes this one on, and it’s both action-packed and melancholic. A solid watch!

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Supergirl

James Gunn’s rebooted DCU continues to unfold on the big screen this year with the release of Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock as the titular hero, Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl. The film is directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya) and is loosely based on Tom King’s beloved Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow comic. We met Kara at the end of Superman, and got a taste of how much fun she can be. Supergirl doesn’t quite live up to the highs of Superman, but it’s more like a fun way to spend a quiet night or a rainy afternoon. There’s still a good time here if you’re looking for one.

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The Furious

Are you ready for some face-melting action? Because that’s what you’ll get from The Furious, a Hong Kong revenge thriller that features The Raid alum Joe Taslim among others. A truly great time for any enjoyer of great action and fight sequences.

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Maddie’s Secret

John Early has been around for a long time—Search Party hive, activate!—but we can count Maddie’s Secret as a major announcement of his talent as a multi-hyphenate in film. Early is the writer, director, and star of Maddie’s Secret playing Maddie, an aspiring chef and recipe creator who finds herself reaching a professional peak just as her personal issues—including mother issues and a debilitating eating disorder—return to her life. It’s a testament to Early’s performance that you can forget about the movie’s basic gimmick—his performance as a woman, played completely straight—within a minute, because his performance is so good and believable. Think about this one as part dramedy, part after-school special PSA satire, and a wholly unique experience.

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The Invite

The Invite, which made its debut at Sundance 2026 and ignited a bidding war among studios (which was eventually won by A24), is Olivia Wilde’s first movie since the drama of Don’t Worry Darling. She sharply shrinks things down here for a single-location story about two couples (Wilde and Seth Rogen along with Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz) having a wild night that starts with a diner party. And it’s truly a great movie—think ’70s style comedies with brilliant characters, performances, and drama mixed in. Wilde is not only great in her role, but it’s her best-directed movie as well. Everything looks great, and the movie is one of the year’s very best.

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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

I have a personal rule. If you made Wet Hot American Summer, you will be on any ‘Most Anticipated Movies’ list I ever make. David Wain did, indeed, make Wet Hot American Summer, and so his latest movie, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, about a woman (Zoey Deutch) who discovers her fiancé used his celebrity sex pass and goes on a journey to get even, makes the list. Jon Hamm and John Slattery playing comical versions of themselves makes everything all the more funny. Gail Daughtry marks the fourth movie Wain and Ken Marino (who costars as a washed up paparazzi photographer named Vincent) have written together, and it’s a highlight of the year for anyone who enjoys their work.

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Evil Dead Burn

Another Evil Dead movie! This one is mean, nasty, and full of violence. The series has sort of lost the humor that made Sam Raimi’s originals precisely what they were, but despite that, the franchise has kind of reinvented itself into a place where new horror voices can prove themselves; this one comes from French director Sébastien Vaniček, while Raimi remains involved as a producer.

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The Odyssey

The movie event of the year is Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Nolan’s film, based on Homer’s ancient greek epic of the same name, comes after the director’s Oppenheimer was both a massive box office smash and basically swept the Oscars. And this time, he may just do it again. The Odyssey is an epic in the truest sense of the word, putting every dollar of its massive budget on screen, creating an absolute epic of the biggest scale imaginable. The movie incorporates horror and a host of other genres into its storytelling, and it all pays off. The performances, led by Matt Damon but also including tremendous turns from Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Himesh Patel, and Samantha Morton, among others, are all fantastic—and we suspect you’ll be hearing about them for the rest of the year, all the way through to the Oscars. If you’re going to see one movie this year, this should probably be the one.

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Her Private Hell

Guys, this movie is bonkers. Her Private Hell marks Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn’s first movie since 2016’s The Neon Demon (he’s made television the TV shows Too Old to Die Young and Copenhagen Cowboy in the meantime), and it’s a neon-drenched revenge fantasy, starring Charles Melton, Sophie Thatcher, and Havana Rose Liu in the lead roles. It’s a NWR film in just about every way: a slow-burn, stylish, sleek revenge thriller, one led with incredible performances that threatens to lose itself in just how slow and strange it is… but ultimately comes together as a fun, surreal time. But it’s worth knowing what you’re getting into—this isn’t any revenge thriller. NWR does things his own way, and this is that way to the max.

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Motor City

Motor City finds our good friend Alan Ritchson (Reacher) in a revenge thriller that has basically no dialogue. Even though John Woo’s Silent Night with Joel Kinnaman just did the same thing not too long ago. Ben Foster and Shailene Woodley are also among the cast, and if you’re in for a fast-paced, heart-pounding thriller/crime film, you can do far worse.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Spidey is back in 2026 for his first adventure since 2021’s universe-altering No Way Home. The new movie is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and with director Destin Daniel Cretton now in the driver’s seat, it’s a fun one. Brand New Day picks up where No Way Home left off: No one remembers Peter Parker, and he’s living kind of a raggedy life as Spidey in New York city, working alongside The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) and meeting with Professor Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo, in a Dylan Baker/Curt Connors type of role from the old Sam Raimi movies). The movie juggles Peter’s life as Spider-Man with a conflict that introduces a mysterious new character played by Sadie Sink (of Stranger Things fame) and his desire to get his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) to remember him. MCU fans and Spidey fans alike should have a fun time with Brand New Day.

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I Want Your Sex

Director Gregg Araki has always been known for his subversive films and their sexual energy—and he’s back at it with I Want Your Sex, which premiered at Sundance 2026 and now comes to audiences everywhere. The movie follows an artist (played by Olivia Wilde) who draws a Gen Z dude (Cooper Hoffman) into her web as her newest sexual muse. The movie itself lives up to that wild premise, as Araki puts his outside-the-box ideas on the shoulders of Wilde and Hoffman to execute—and they do so with great ease and comfort. The film is made by its two stars, and luckily both are extremely charismatic, and extremely game. Araki has spoken during the press run of I Want Your Sex about the downfalls of society becoming more prude, and his newest film shows us a world where “prude” isn’t in the vocabulary.

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Tony

Dominic Sessa has popped up here and there in the time since his breakout role in The Holdovers, but his first real test comes in Tony, an Anthony Bourdain biopic from A24. Normally this kind of thing would seem likely to be generic and even a little craven, but considering this is being helmed by Matt Johnson of BlackBerry fame, it’s not that at all—and, instead, is one of the year’s best movies and a truly great coming-of-age story. Read our August MH Flex with Sessa and Johnson for more.

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

This trippy, meta take on a slasher film is in the very talented hands of Jane Schoenbrun, who was behind We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow. The story follows a filmmaker (Hannah Einbinder) who wants to make a new version of her favorite old Friday the 13th-esque slasher movie, and decides she needs its original star (Gillian Anderson) to be in her new film. And then things start getting surreal, romantic, and intense. Schoenbrun’s movies are always compelling and uniquely cool to look at, and this one is no different.

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Super Troopers 3

If the Super Troopers guys want to make us laugh, we’ll never say no.

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The End of Oak Street

Formerly known as Flowervale Street, this movie has been floating around the ether for a while now, and, after years of talk, it’s finally been released into the world. The story follows a family (with parents played by Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor) whose entire street is transported back to the time of dinosaurs, somehow. Director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows, Under the Silver Lake) is behind this one, and its pretty clearly influenced by a certain subgenre of Steven Spielberg film (Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, etc)—but with the same kind of nasty streak that was so prevalent in It Follows.

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The Wrong Girls

The Wrong Girls is a stoner comedy with Kristen Stewart and Alia Shakwat in the lead roles, helmed by Stewart’s real-life wife Dylan Meyer. The duo are joined by the likes of LaKeith Stanfield, Geena Davis, and Seth Rogen for a movie that looks very much spiritually connected to Pineapple Express. Why not?

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The Rivals of Amziah King

This crime thriller got rave reviews on the festival circuit, and despite flying under the radar, has been one of the year’s most acclaimed films. Matthew McConaughey leads a wild father-daughter revenge story.

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Coyote vs. Acme

What is dead may never die! After Coyote vs. Acme was halfway into its grave and buried after being marked as a tax write-of by Warner Bros., it was saved and set for release by Ketchup Entertainment when they bought the film for a record fee. Coyote vs. Acme is a live-action/animated blend film (think Space Jam) that includes Will Forte and John Cena among its human cast and, well, stars Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, and the rest of the gang. Imagine the Looney Tunes in a legal drama that feels shockingly connected to movies like A Few Good Men and The Insider. It rules! Do not miss this one. One of the most enjoyable movies of the year for people of any age.

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The Dog Stars

Not only did Jacob Elordi lead an epic romantic drama in February with Wuthering Heights and make a trip to the Oscars in March as a nominee for Best Supporting Actor for Frankenstein, but he’s also the headliner of this post-apocalyptic thriller directed by Ridley Scott. The Dog Stars is based on a book of the same name by Peter Heller, and also includes Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce, and Benedict Wong in its cast. The end of the world is a very familiar setting these days, but despite its mixed reviews, The Dog Stars is a movie with a lot on its mind and no shortage of action either. The performances are fantastic, too—Elordi, Brolin, and Qualley hold things down, but its Pearce in his supporting role and a sinister Allison Janney who emerge as real standouts.

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Idiots

Formerly known as The Shitheads, this comedic thriller follows a pair of guys at rock bottom (O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Dave Franco) who are paid to get a rich kid to rehab. Peter Dinklage, Mason Thames, Kiernan Shipka, and Nicholas Braun also star. It’s fun!

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Buddy

What if Barney the Dinosaur was super fucking evil? Buddy is a very dark horror-comedy about a demented children’s TV host/character from the creator of Too Many Cooks. If that sentence sounds appealing to you, you’ll probably be very in on this movie, which leans heavily into lo-fi analog horror and has a cast led by Cristin Milioti, Michael Shannon and Topher Grace, with Keegan-Michael Key as the titular evil unicorn.

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Onslaught

Onslaught marks writer/director Adam Wingard’s return to his The Guest/You’re Next horror-thriller roots after he spent a few years in Godzilla x Kong land. He is remarkably good at these kinds of movies, and Adria Arjona—who’s had a great run with projects like Hit Man and Andor—is in the lead role. If you saw Blink Twice, you know she can kick ass too. She takes on a trio of evil super soldiers in this gnarly, violent movie, and the supporting cast (which includes Drew Starkey, Dan Stevens, and Rebecca Hall among others) are all having a whole lot of fun.

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Mayday

Mayday, which stars Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh as a Navy pilot and the ex-KGB agent who needs to help him survive, comes from Game Night duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, and those guys haven’t steered us awry yet.

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The Uprising

The latest film from director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, among others) depicts the 1381 English Peasants’ Revolt when common people pushed against the tyranny of King Richard II in plague-infested times. Andrew Garfield leads a stacked cast that also includes Cosmo Jarvis, Jamie Bell, Thomasin McKenzie, and Katherine Waterston. This movie is really cool, and has some awesome action! Some of the messaging eventually becomes a bit on-the-nose with its modern-day parallels, and I have no idea why parts of the movie’s marketing refers to it as a Robin Hood movie—none of that is actually in the movie. But it’s a cool watch with a lot of strong action. Perhaps Andrew Garfield’s most impressive action role to date, and that counts his two Spider-Man movies!

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Hope

Hope, the latest film from South Korean director Na Hong-jin is (mostly) fucking awesome. Are you into Alien-style monster movies filled with dread and horror? Are you into Mad Max: Fury Road-style relentless, stunt-filled action sequences? Are you into the weirdest possible use of Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander possible? If your answer to any of these questions is “yes,” please make sure you see Hope as soon as possible. This movie is bonkers, and might leave you kind of confused at what you just witnessed by the end. But it is a wild—and very fun—ride.

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Resident Evil

A little more than a year after the release of his horror masterpiece Weapons, writer-director Zach Cregger returns to theaters to put his spin on Resident Evil. This energetic thrill fest keeps the vibe with the director’s moody, intense, balls-to-the-walls style (and the sense of humor that coms along with it). He’s brought along his old pal Austin Abrams (who also starred in Weapons)to lead the cast—and he’s a perfect fit.

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The Weight

The Weight, starring the one-and-only, never-stopping, Ethan Hawke, was a hit out of Sundance 2026, and now arrives in theaters to much acclaim. Hawke is always busy and tends to pick projects pretty well; The Weight is a Depression-era story about a man on a journey to reunite with his family that involves a gold smuggling situation. It’s drawn comparisons to movies like William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, which tells you exactly the kind of gritty, dirty, badass movie we’re dealing with here. Hell yeah.

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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

Despite seeming like a total slam dunk, the MCU’s Blade movie somehow never happened. Instead, though, we get to watch Mahershala Ali in an action-ish drama called Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which is brilliatly directed by Bassam Tariq, who was the original pick to direct Blade before he parted ways from the project. The film focuses on the lengths a father (Ali) goes for his kids after their mother dies—and features some of the action training that Ali worked on during his prep for Blade along the way. It’s a contemplative action movie and one of the year’s best. Also featuring an absolutely bonkers John Cho as the movie’s villain; One of his best performances ever.

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Primetime

Robert Pattinson goes 100% balls to the walls in Primetime, which tells a 2006-set story of how NBC’s To Catch A Predator tried to change unscripted TV.—and the extreme length to which Chris Hansen (Pattinson) and the show would go in pursuit of ratings. The film, which marks the feature debut of super stylistic documentary director Lance Oppenheim, is dark, intense, and one of the most compelling of the year. Pattinson is the headliner, but he’s joined by a cast that’s fantastic in their own right, including Skyler Gisondo, Merritt Wever, and Phoebe Bridgers.

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Digger (10/2)

For the first time in well over a decade, Tom Cruise is leading an original, non-action movie, and it’s Digger, directed and co-written by Birdman and The Revenant‘s Alejandro G. Iñárritu. It looks to be swining big, with Cruise going into quasi Les Grossman mode as an oil baron who may or may not be responsible for ruining the world. John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, and Jeese Plemons are also among the cast. Could Tom Cruise be on early Oscar watch? Or will this just be a good time? Who’s to say. But we’ll probably want to be there as soon as possible.

The Social Reckoning (10/9)

16 years later, and The Social Network is getting a sequel. The Social Reckoning, however, won’t return any of its cast members, and Aaron Sorkin himself will take on directing duties from David Fincher (who will show up a little later on this list). The cast, however, is still strong: Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison, and Jeremy Strong (as Mark Zuckerberg) lead the way. The story will follow another fraught period in Facebook’s rocky history, and is based on the book Broken Code by Jeff Horwitz.

Fjord (10/9)

Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve are two of the most exciting actors working today, and they have an A Different Man reunion going with their upcoming film Fjord. Quite frankly at this point we’d watch these two in anything, but this social drama also won the Palme D’or—the Cannes Film Festival’s highest honor—so expectations are particularly high.

Whalefall (10/9)

Weapons reunion! Josh Brolin and Austin Abrams play father and son in Whalefall, a movie about a son (Abrams) looking for his father (Brolin) in the ocean… only to get swallowed by a whale and have to figure out how to escape. Based on a very loved book by Daniel Kraus.

Animals (10/9)

Ben Affleck directs, co-writes, and stars in Animals, a movie about a mayoral candidate (Affleck) whose son gets kidnapped, setting an entire thriller plot into motion. It sounds pretty similar to High and Low/Highest 2 Lowest, but with a political thriller angle thrown in. We support Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in their entirety here, and Affleck is usually a damn solid director. So this firmly makes our list.

Misty Green (10/9)

Chris Rock directs Misty Green, which he stars in alongside Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick, and Topher Grace, among others. Perhaps most intriguingly, though, Misty Green marks Daniel Kaluuya’s first on-screen role in a while—and we’re excited to see him again.

The Only Living Pickpocket In New York (10/16)

John Turturro leads The Only Living Pickpocket In New York, which sounds like an old-fashioned NYC-set thief story, but in our modern technology-centered world. The movie is directed by Rian Johnson regular Noah Segan (with Johnson aboard as a producer), and also counts heavy hitters like Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi, and Tatiana Maslany in its cast.

You Can See Everything (10/16)

There’s a very simple premise behind You Can See Everything: Nathan Fielder (!!!) joined infamous Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes with a film crew 34 days before she went to prison—and things escalated from there. The movie is co-directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim (who less than a month earlier put out Primetime). Word of mouth suggests that you’re best going into this one as blind as possible beyond that, and, look, we don’t need to be convinced any more.

Street Fighter (10/16)

We’re doing another Street Fighter movie! If it embraces being campy and fun, it could be a good one—and based on some of the early images released (see attached), it feels like it might be doing just that.

Clayface (10/23)

One of the year’s most intriguing movies is Clayface, which has a script from horror master Mike Flanagan and is directed by James Watkins. Of course, Clayface is best known as a villain of Batman—this is yet another entry in James Gunn’s rebooted new DCU. The titular character is played by relative unknown Tom Rhys Harries, and we hope that means he’s absolutely knocked it out of the park in the early goings. The movie could be really, really cool.

Wicker (10/23)

In this movie—which debuted at Sundance 2026—Olivia Colman plays a woman who gets herself a husband (played by Alexander Skarsgård) made out of wicker. Peter Dinklage and Elizabeth Debicki are also part of the cast for this movie that should be quite weird, and with that cast, we hope quite good.

Klara and the Sun (10/23)

Klara and the Sun, based on the Kazuo Ishiguro novel of the same name, is the latest movie from Taika Waititi and stars Jenna Ortega, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Adams, and Steve Buscemi. The movie follows a robot named Klara (Ortega) whose role is to make life easier for the humans she lives with.

Wild Horse Nine (11/6)

Wild Horse Nine is the newest movie from Martin McDonaugh—known for The Banshees of Inisherin and In Bruges. This film—which clearly maintains the writer/director’s signature blend of dark comedy and thrills—follows a pair of CIA agents (John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell) on a mission to Chile gone wrong. They’re joined by Tom Waits, Steve Buscemi, and Parker Posey, making up an excellent cast in what should be one of the year’s best movies.

Paper Tiger (11/13)

Director James Gray (who most recently was behind space drama Ad Astra and period drama Armageddon Time) returns to his crime drama roots with Paper Tiger, a movie about a pair of brothers (Adam Driver and Miles Teller) in pursuit of the American dream who wind up getting involved with the Russian mafia. Scarlett Johansson is another of the movie’s leads.

How to Rob a Bank (11/13)

Heat gone viral? That’s the basic idea of How to Rob a Bank from director David Leitch (Bullet Train, The Fall Guy), which depicts a group of bank robbers (led by Nicholas Hoult) who document their crimes on a popular YouTube channel. John C. Reilly, Shōgun‘s Anna Sawai, Pete Davidson, and Zoë Kravitz are among the many recognizable members of the cast.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (11/20)

The Hunger Games franchise will return for its sixth film, Sunrise on the Reaping, based on the novel of the same name. This story follows a young Haymitch (played here by Joseph Zada and by Woody Harrelson in the original films) competing in the games; The movie’s cast is absurd, including the likes of Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, and Ralph Fiennes.

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth (11/25)

The trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth debuted during the Super Bowl, and it looks like a blast. This quasi-sequel to Once Upon a Time In Hollywood is working with an abandoned script by Quentin Tarantino that will instead be directed by David Fincher. All-in!

Focker-in-Law (11/25)

The Meet the Parents series returns for the fourth time with Focker-in-Law, the first movie in this series since 2010’s underwhelming Little Fockers. But the spin here is interesting: Greg Focker’s son (Superman‘s Skyler Gisondo) is getting married (to a woman played by Ariana Grande). With Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, and most of the main crrew all returning, this should be a really fun time. Remember how funny Parents and Meet the Fockers were?

Behemoth! (12/4)

Between Michael Clayton and Andor, Tony Gilroy has been behind two of the most compelling projects on film or television in the last 20 years. With Behemoth!, he returns to the big screen for his first film since 2012’s The Bourne Legacy. The movie follows a classical musician played by Pedro Pascal, and the cast also includes Will Arnett, Eva Victor, and Olivia Wilde putting a cap on her tremendous year. We don’t know too much of what the movie is actually about, but it’s got one hell of a teaser to get us on the hook. Can’t wait for this one.

Ink (12/11)

This timely period drama looks back at when Rupert Murdoch (Guy Pearce) first bought The Sun newspaper—and decided to lean into sensationalism rather than just hard news. Jack O’Connell plays the paper’s editor-in-chief, and Danny Boyle directs. Think Boyle in Steve Jobs mode for this—and it should be really cool. Netflix recently acquired the film and is debuting it at the Venice Film Festival, so expectations are pretty high.

The Debut (12/11)

Julianne Moore is gunning for her second Oscar in The Debut, a new dramedy musical (!) co-starring, written, and directed by Jesse Eisenberg in his first movie since A Real Pain. The movie follows a shy woman (Moore) who gets thrust into a local community theatrical production, brushing up against its intense director (a very game Paul Giamatti). It looks quirky, fun, and like it could be one of the power-players later in the year.

Dune Part Three (12/18)

After the first two Dune movies adapted the original novel in its entirety, the third (and presumably final) movie of the big-screen Dune trilogy will adapt the second book in the series, Dune: Messiah. Timothée Chalamet will lead the cast once again with Josh Brolin, Anya Taylor-Joy, Florence Pugh, Zendaya, Jason Momoa and Rebecca Ferguson among those returning, while Robert Pattinson joins the cast as the villain. It’s probably worth noting that the title of the film is Dune: Part Three and not Dune: Messiah—Messiah is a pretty cerebral story that jumps forward into the future of Arrakis; It’s quite possible that some significant changes and adjustments are made to the story here.

Avengers: Doomsday (12/18)

In December, we’ll finally get to see how all of this ‘Robert Downey Jr. is back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe but playing Doctor Doom instead of Iron Man’ business will play out. Marvel has already gestured toward the film with a few post-credits scenes (in Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four) and a couple teasers, but outside of that we’re still mostly in the dark. Marvel fans (us included) have fingers crossed that this will be a good one.

Artificial (12/25)

Artificial reunites Andrew Garfield and director Luca Guadagnino after last year’s After The Hunt brought mixed results—but it’s got a whole built in storyline even aside the movie. This was originally an Amazon-MGM production, before the studio decided to let it go and sold it to NEON. Considering Artificial is a bio-drama about OpenAI leader Sam Altman, does that mean this is a movie that a mega corporation like Amazon (who have ties to OpenAI) didn’t feel comfortable releasing? Either way, the movie will now come out via NEON instead. It’s interesting that this movie will come out in a year when a literal Social Network sequel is also on the calendar, because Artificial (which is written by the brilliant and very funny Simon Rich) feels more Social Network-y than anything else. Without any further comment, let me also tell you one bit of casting in this movie: Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk. Yeah.

Werwulf (12/25)

Director Robert Eggers (Nosferatu, The VVitch, The Lighthouse) is bringing his meticulous period horror approach to Werewolf stories with his newest movie, Werwulf. Just to be pretty straightforward and blunt, it feels very likely that this movie is going to fucking rule as long as you’re someone who likes Eggers’s whole thing. The cast is led by mostly returning Eggers players: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, and Ralph Ineson. Let’s go.

Slayground (Fall 2026 TBA)

We finally got a teaser for Slayground (formerly called October)—the latest horror/thriller from director Jeremy Saulnier, who brought us Green Room and Rebel Ridge—and it looks wild. The A24 movie will also mark the first leading role for Cory Michael Smith, who played a tremendous supporting role inMay December and always delivers when he shows up. We don’t know too much else, but it looks absolutely wild and like a total blast.

Here Comes The Flood (2026 TBA)

It’s a totally stacked heist movie from City of God director Fernando Meirelles that stars Denzel Washington and Robert Pattinson. I mean, duh!

Judgment Day (2026 TBA)

Zac Efron takes Will Ferrell hostage live on television. Good hook, right? Judgement Day finds Ferrell playing a TV judge who gets taken hostage live on the air by an angry man played by Zac Efron. Nicholas Stoller, who was the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors, is behind the camera on this one.

Famous (2026 TBA)

Efron will also appear in A24’s Famous, from director Jody Hill (Observe and Report, several other projects with Danny McBride). Famous is based on a novel by Blake Crouch and finds Efron playing dual roles: a movie star, and a man who looks shockingly similar to the movie star, and decides to use it to his advantage. This could end up being a surprise 2026 release—much like Efron’s last A24 star vehicle, The Iron Claw was—so keep your eye out.

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