Few 2026 releases looked better on paper than Klara and the Sun: a Taika Waititi-directed adaptation of a Kazuo Ishiguro novel, starring Jenna Ortega as an android and Amy Adams as her co-lead. Then the film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on October 15, and the verdict came down hard. With the film … Read more
DC Studios is about to take its biggest creative swing yet — and the first reactions are all over the map. Clayface, the R-rated body-horror take on one of Batman’s oldest villains, opens in theaters on October 23, 2026, with preview screenings starting October 22. With full critic reviews landing this week, here is everything … Read more
Lionsgate has pulled back the curtain on one of the boldest original thrillers left on the 2026 calendar. On Monday, the studio revealed the official poster for Above the Below, the astronaut survival thriller co-directed by and starring Idris Elba — and the poster locked in a December 4, 2026 theatrical release, with the official … Read more
A24 has finally put a date on one of the most secretive horror projects in recent memory. On Monday, the studio unveiled a teaser poster for Slayground, the new Jeremy Saulnier film that spent most of its life under the title October — and the poster confirmed the haunted-attraction horror will open in theaters on … Read more
The Short Answer Almost everything in Donnie Darko happens inside a Tangent Universe — an unstable, temporary copy of reality that splinters off when a jet engine crashes through Donnie’s bedroom on October 2, 1988. Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is the Living Receiver — the person chosen to return the “Artifact” (the jet engine) to the … Read more
The Short Answer Jamie Miller, the 13-year-old accused of stabbing his classmate Katie to death, pleads guilty in the final episode. The series ends with his father, Eddie, sitting in Jamie’s untouched bedroom, tucking his son’s childhood teddy bear into bed and whispering, “I’m sorry, son. I should’ve done better.” The ending confirms Jamie’s guilt … Read more
Verdict: 2.5/5 — Jessica Chastain is terrific twice over, but Blumhouse’s doppelganger horror is scares without a soul Other Mommy is the Halloween-season paradox of 2026: a horror film audiences rejected with a rare D+ CinemaScore that still opened at number one with $27.5 million. The film’s entire case for existing is Jessica Chastain playing … Read more
Verdict: 3/5 — A claustrophobic survival thriller with genuine nerve, weighed down by overwrought daddy drama What do you do when the premise of your movie is a man being swallowed alive by a sperm whale? If you are Brian Duffield, you play it straight — and mostly, Whalefall rewards that commitment. This is a … Read more
One of the strangest love stories of the year arrives in theaters this Friday. Wicker, the Black Bear romantic fantasy starring Olivia Colman as an ostracized fisherwoman who commissions a husband made entirely of wicker, opens in limited US theaters on October 23, 2026, before expanding nationwide on October 30. Written and directed by Alex … Read more
The story of Elizabeth Holmes refuses to stop being told — and audiences are still lining up to hear it. A24’s documentary You Can See Everything, co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, earned an estimated $15 million in its opening weekend from just 855 theaters, a near-record debut for a documentary that nearly doubled … Read more