Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.
Opening: Jul. 17, 2026
Wide (United States)
The Odyssey
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Limited (United States)
Horsegirls
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Has a fresh voice and a big heart.
2026 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
The Christophers
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Crime 101
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Disclosure Day
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Evil Dead Burn
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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
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The Invite
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Leviticus
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Masters of the Universe
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Minions & Monsters
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Moana
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Power Ballad
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Project Hail Mary
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The Sheep Detectives
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Tuner
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Wuthering Heights
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Adam’s Sake
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É um filme que se vê muito bem, mas é difícil tomar uma posição. Dá trabalho não nos dizerem o que devemos pensar.
Blue Film
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Blue Film briefly gets close to being profound about sexuality, then sinks and becomes mired in a woefully misguided desire for pure empathy in the face of disgusting, immoral acts.
The Christophers
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Eighty minutes of a woman stoically staring as a man loquaciously and often inanely vomits dialogue to no end. The other twenty are some of the most unforgettable and legitimately heartfelt moments of human connection you’ll see all year.
Colony
Panagiotis Kot @ Asian Movie Pulse
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s a nice message delivered with a great cast, a wealth of viscous fungal slime, and some of the most memorable “zombies” yet courtesy of acrobatic extras climbing atop each other before striking.
Company Sports Day
Panagiotis Kot @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Even though animation nowadays has reached rather intense audiovisual heights, often through particularly big budgets, “Company Sports Day” reminds us that there is another approach, where story and context are at the forefront. It is an approach which can still definitely thrive, while highlighting the continuous progress of local animation.
Do You Love Me
- Excerpt: Filmmaker Lana Daher draws on 70 years of archival footage in Do You Love Me, her kaleidoscopic love letter to Lebanon and its capital city, Beirut. The film merges the public and the private—from clips from Lebanese films and television shows to Daher’s own home movies and family photographs—to paint a complex portrait of a people and a place that continue to endure despite decades of violence and turmoil.
The Get Out
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Tem sexo, tiros e karaoke, a duração certa, a complexidade certa e um final satisfatório. Podia ter sido melhor, mas dá para ver e rever como mero entretenimento.
Hold the Fort
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O filme sabe rir de si mesmo e está carregado de personagens esterotipadas. Tem um débito constante de situações ridículas onde a qualidade não importa, pois é para desfrutar da sessão, não para pensar.
Ice Blood
Panagiotis Kot @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Ice Blood” has its issues, but as a whole, it emerges as an entertaining thriller and horror movie that benefits most from the ambiguity characterizing the story, the acting and the cinematography.
Ikka
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Mockbuster
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Enquanto isso actualizou o currículo com dois filmes em que um – este – é apelativo. Bem jogado.
Mumbo Jumbo
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Acredito que os pais de primeira viagem e ainda não imunizados para estes conteúdos se vão aborrecer bastante, mas algum dia teria de ser e este é de curta duração.
My Dad Is a Zombie
Panagiotis Kot @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “My Dad Is a Zombie” is not a zombie movie in the usual sense, and that is exactly what makes it stand out. Its genre element is more of a path toward a story about parenthood, labor, performance and dignity. The combination of family drama and backstage comedy works quite well, while the focus on bit actors gives the movie an unusual perspective within Korean cinema. It may end on a rather melodramatic note, but the warmth of the performances and the originality of the concept help it emerge as an entertaining and touching human comedy.
Nameless
Panagiotis Kot @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: At the same time, the movie’s brutality, uneven structure and occasionally awkward handling of its supernatural rules prevent it from fully capitalizing on its premise. Nevertheless, as a bleak, grotesque and frequently disturbing genre piece, it has enough originality and intensity to stand out, while confirming that Jiro Sato’s darker screen persona is becoming one of the more unusual phenomena in contemporary Japanese cinema.
Night Nurse
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s not going to be for everyone since it enjoys playing with its viewers’ patience and comprehension, but that’s also the part of this ride that will definitely appeal to the rest.
Nothing to Lose
- Excerpt: As a PSA about childhood cancer, Nothing to Lose isn’t so unaccomplished, but as a movie, Nothing to Lose is misbalanced and not very compelling.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The film is allowed to be just effective enough to give life to the overall journey while also sparking your interest to dig into the text and experience the historical and emotional details left behind.
Remake
Kenji Fujishima @ Book and Film Globe
Rosebush Pruning
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Aí está o novo filme do brasileiro Karim Ainouz, em estreia antes de chegar à plataforma MUBI, numa adaptação calórica do filme de estreia de Bernardo Bertolucci.
Silver Hammer
Panagiotis Kot @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: By the end, “Silver Hammer” feels less like a sharply observed critique than a competent imitation of something better. It has a strong starting point, a potentially rich central object, some good visual ideas, and an appealingly strange mystery. At the same time, its ideas never quite earn their own weight. The movie gestures toward the absurd violence of the modern workplace, and occasionally toward a bloodier, more grotesque form of satire, but it does not dig deeply enough into the pain, anger, or existential dread behind that violence.
The Tasters
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Filme só recomendado para os fanáticos da época com desejo de saber mais. Para os outros, espero que fortaleça o desejo de não ver mais guerra nem mais ditadores a oprimir os inocentes no seu país e nos dos outros.
Young Washington
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Imagine an 18th-century superhero movie. That’s what this feels like.
2025 Films
The Fertilizer Home
Panagiotis Kot @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Despite some issues here and there, “The Fertilizer Home” is a competent movie, one that thrives on atmosphere, multilayered context, visuals, and acting, and certainly a more than hopeful debut.
Forte
Panagiotis Kot @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Despite some minor issues here and there, “Forte” emerges as a very appealing movie, which combines its impressive audiovisual approach with a rather intriguing narrative
Not Without Hope
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: ê-se bem, sabe combinar histórias para não se tornar aborrecido – de recordar que tem lugar no meio do nada, seria fácil ficar sem tema em duas horas – e não se tenta tornar demasiado filosófico. Mas não passa disso.
The Only Child in the Butchery
Panagiotis Kot @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “The Only Child in the Butchery” is an engaging and layered debut that uses crime and black comedy to explore the ambiguous obligations created within families. Although a few of its twists rely on coincidence, Yoo Hyoung-joon handles the shifting styles with confidence, while Kwon Ji-woo anchors the increasingly strange developments with a convincing performance.
Pets on a Train
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: No geral é daqueles filmes quase obrigatórios para ver nas férias e que se vai esquecer dias depois.
Tin Soldier
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Qualquer outro actor teria produzido exactamente o mesmo resultado imediatamente esquecível, o que confirma o desperdício que essas escolhas foram.
2024 Films
The Wild Robot
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