Release Date: 10/28/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Comedy. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Independent Film Company. Shudder. The Verdict: A Must-See Breeder joins the list of 2026 horror films molded by YouTube creators. Written, edited, and directed by Alex Goyette, Breeder takes the basic concept of dog breeding and adds moral, ethical, and philosophical conversation with a twist: people. ​ Daniel Doheny plays Russell, an intellectually gifted researcher studying the concerning

Release Date: 03/05/27 [Cinemas] Genre: Drama. Romance. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics. The Verdict: A Mistake As I watched director, screenwriter, and editor Stephanie Ahn’s humanist drama Bedford Park, I kept asking myself, “Now what?” For 121 minutes, we spend time with characters we barely care for, and watch their lives unfold, intertwine, and then complicate without a single shred of interest. Two strangers' lives collide by chance, and their societa

Limited Series. Aired On: Netflix. Release Date: 10/08/26. Genre: Drama. Horror. Mystery. Thriller. The Verdict: A Must-See There’s a hole under every lake out there. Or so it seems. After Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, every body of water has developed its own hole, lurking beneath the surface and harboring local secrets that may or may not drive the protagonists’ narrative arc. In Camp Miasma, it was Kris’s sexual awakening, but in the Netflix serie

Director: Samuel Gonzalez Jr. Release Date: 10/17/26 [Festival Run] Genre: Horror. The Verdict: A Must-See Samuel Gonzalez Jr.’s twenty-minute horror short, The Review, can be interpreted in several ways. One could see it as an anti-influencer picture, embodying the emotional burden, toxicity, and the pressure of having all eyes on your every move. The other can be seen through the eyes of those affected by such popularity, where influence can lead to utter disaster. After a

Release Date: 10/23/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Drama. SciFi. MPAA: Rated PG13. Distributor: Columbia Pictures. The Verdict: A Mistake On paper, a Taika Waititi version of Pinocchio is more than intriguing. Klara and the Sun is not quite that, but it is close enough. The Kiwi director has always made movies with a unique mix of wit and wonder. You can't miss his work, but even the most devoted Waititi fans might argue he's in a bit of a slump. You could say it is overexposure, his fo

Release Date: 11/27/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Drama. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: Blue Fox Entertainment. The Verdict: A Must-See The next millennial nostalgia-bait coming-of-age film has arrived in the form of Paloma Schneideman’s directorial debut: Big Girls Don’t Cry. Set in New Zealand in 2006, the film captures a time when instant messaging, mini box-shaped cell phones, and Puca shell necklaces ruled the teenage landscape before social media started rotting our brains. We fol

Release Date: 10/09/26 [Netflix] Genre: Action. Crime. Drama. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Netflix. The Verdict: A Mistake It’s hard to imagine a director starting their career better than Ben Affleck did. The 1-2-3 punch of Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and Argo gave him a crucial next chapter after a career on the verge of collapse, reigniting his stardom and his ability to lead projects. He hasn’t matched those heights behind the camera in the 15 years since Argo’s Be

Release Date: 01/22/27 [Cinemas] Genre: Animation. Drama. Family. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics. The Verdict: A Must-See In January 2027, select US cities will feature a unique, hand-drawn animated French film: Iron Boy (Le Corset in its original language). If you’re in the mood for something completely different, beautiful, subtle, and unique, watch this gorgeously hand-painted, animated coming-of-age story in French with English subtitles. ​ Iron Boy

Release Date: 10/14/26 [Prime Video] Genre: Drama. Romance. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Amazon MGM Studios. The Verdict: A Maybe It’s been six years since the COVID-19 pandemic took over the globe. As time passes, it’s easy for those of us who could return to normal life, where the worst we experienced was sheltering in place, to put that period behind us. For others, moving on is much harder. ​ Love of Your Life focuses on Maya (Margaret Qualley), a young nurse who meets Cha

Director: Nathan Fielder. Lance Oppenheim. Release Date: 10/16/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Biography. Comedy. Crime. Documentary. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: A24. Runtime: 174 minutes. The Verdict: A Must-See Part of me feels as if I’ve been waiting years to write this. I, along with other die-hard Nathan Fielder fans, have known about his genius for years. Watching his fame explode, while exciting, feels a bit as if we’ve had to surrender our well-kept secret to the world. Parasocia

Release Date: 11/06/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Comedy. Drama. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: A24. Seen for New York Film Festival 2026. The Verdict: A Must-See As long as it remains the city that never sleeps, which will be true until the end of time, filmmakers will keep making movies about New York. Recently, filmmakers have increasingly focused on underrepresented subsections of the city’s population. Best Picture winner Anora is the modern classic that comes to mind above all else:

Release Date: 10/30/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Crime. Drama. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics. Seen for New York Film Festival 2026. The Verdict: A Must-See We sometimes take the great actors for granted. It’s only natural--if someone is great all of the time, it’s never really a headline when they are once again great in a new project. But if you don’t stop to appreciate that skill, they become an accepted, slightly overlooked part of the fabric of movie

w/ Director Travis Knight. SYNOPSIS The adventures of Prue McKeel as she sets off to the forests outside Portland to find her kidnapped brother. Cinefied's Peter Gray sat down with Director Travis Knight to discuss the beautiful new LAIKA Studios film, WILDWOOD… Wildwood is IN CINEMAS on October 23rd!

Release Date: 10/23/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Comedy. Drama. Fantasy. History. Romance. SciFi. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Black Bear. The Verdict: A Must-See If you’ve ever been in a serious relationship, you’ll understand that love may not always be tangible, but it is always fragile. But what if the person you loved was literally just as fragile? The new film Wicker answers that question in a surprising, sexy, and heartfelt way. ​ Adapted from the short story “The Wicker Husband

Release Date: 10/02/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Drama. Horror. MPAA: Rated TVMA. Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment. The Verdict: A Must-See Some movies make you think, “What the…did I just watch?” Joko Anwar’s Ghost in the Cell is one of those underrated gems. In this prison drama/horror comedy, gore, religious hypocrisy, and political themes about the injustice of the incarceration system mash together to create a thrill ride from start to finish. As good films come and go, it’

Release Date: 10/16/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Drama. History. Romance. War. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Netflix. The Verdict: A Must-See Netflix's movie catalog is certainly diverse. On one end of the spectrum, you have the easy background watches the company prides itself on producing, feeding the algorithm with romantic comedies and trashy true-crime docs that people devour like fast food (I mean this mostly as a compliment). Then there’s the other end: auteurist films funded as

Release Date: 11/06/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Action. Comedy. Crime. Drama. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Searchlight Pictures. The Verdict: A Must-See In 1973, just after the election of Socialist Leader Salvador Allende as President of Chile and the first Marxist elected world leader, two CIA agents wait off the indigenous island of Rapa Nui, awaiting Chile's new democracy to topple. Lee and his mentor, Chris, take a getaway to the famous island for a little R&R; however,

Release Date: 10/23/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Horror. SciFi. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Warner Bros. The Verdict: A Must-See It’s no secret that DC has struggled to find its footing in the ever-expanding superhero cinematic universe. While it may not be as dire as the whole Sony of it all (sorry, Madame Web), its efforts have drawn far more mixed reactions than Marvel's unshakable Success. Enter Clayface: a Batman villain origin story that’s as gnarly as it is engaging.

Release Date: 10/23/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Adventure. Animation. Fantasy. MPAA: Rated PG13. Distributor: Fathom Entertainment. The Verdict: A Must-See The artistry of stop-motion animation is increasingly extraordinary, especially in an industry where technological convenience so often trumps painstaking craftsmanship. For LAIKA Studios, however, the commitment to creating something genuinely tangible has always been part of its cinematic identity. With Wildwood, the studio has

Director: Alex Gibney. Release Date: 10/16/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Biography. Documentary. History. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Bleecker Street. Runtime: 232 minutes. The Verdict: A Must-See The powerful man complex has haunted filmmakers in both fiction and non-fiction since the beginning of movies. You can look at Citizen Kane, or even go earlier. While watching Musk, Alex Gibney’s nearly four-hour documentary about Elon Musk, I kept thinking about the final scene of Christophe