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: Oct. 16, 2026
Wide (United States)
Crawlers
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Street Fighter
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Whalefall
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You Can See Everything
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Limited (United States)
Case 137
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a true to life picture of what happens when untrained officers close ranks to protect their own in situations they haven’t been trained for and the almost impossible position the police officers tasked with investigating them find themselves in.
Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Faith-based cinema has come a long way in the last two decades. It’s therefore disappointing to get an entry as regressive as Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul.
2026 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
Digger
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Forgotten Island
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Primetime
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The Social Reckoning
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
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The Uprising
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Verity
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14th
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Appofeniacs
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I would have loved some actual commentary about the danger of deepfakes with the wild romp born from the damage they inflict on the concept of reality, but I can’t say I wasn’t invested in the resulting rabbit hole.
Behemoth!
Lexi Amoriello @ Movie Recs By Lex
Beware Boiúna
Sarah Gopaul @ Imagery at the Movies
- Excerpt: Director Mike P. Nelson cleverly uses the snake’s inexplicable size to enhance her threat. Although audiences may never get a clear view of her full length, there is a definite sense of her enormity.
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Sarah Gopaul @ Imagery at the Movies
- Excerpt: The coming-of-age story isn’t remarkable, but it is relatable. Many people will have experienced situations similar to Sid — both memorable and regrettable.
California Schemin’
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Ross has the meatier role. It’s a tragic roller coaster of emotions. That said, however, don’t sleep on Bottomley’s performance. Sometimes clarity makes things even worse because he’s forced to helplessly watch it all burn.
Club Kid
Lexi Amoriello @ Movie Recs By Lex
Comédie-Française
The Death of Robin Hood
Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
The Debut
Lexi Amoriello @ Movie Recs By Lex
Everytime
Lexi Amoriello @ Movie Recs By Lex
Fjord
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …both the right and the left have been accused of governmental overreach into people’s health and private life and this is a particularly potent example that happens to have taken place in a progressive country.
Ghost in the Cell
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Anwar pulls no punches with the commentary on his country’s current state of affairs being rampant corruption. It’s why his hero Anggoro (Abimana Aryasatya) doesn’t demand respect from power. He earns it through kindness.
Godzilla Minus Zero
Lexi Amoriello @ Movie Recs By Lex
If I Go Will They Miss Me
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: By allowing us to connect with characters who perceive the world in different ways, harbour specific yearnings, and seek freedom, the film succeeds in creating a palpable atmosphere that links the past with the present.
Less of a Stranger
- Excerpt: Less of a Stranger is as anodyne as a biopic can be.
The Magic Faraway Tree
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: This particular adaptation works both for fans of the novels and for those who simply want to enjoy a wholesome, colourful, and imaginative film.
Making Marie Antoinette
Lexi Amoriello @ Movie Recs By Lex
Matchbox: The Movie
- Excerpt: No amount of John Cena charm can make Matchbox: The Movie work as it crashes into the IP doldrums.
- Excerpt: The film aims to bring to life the imagination a child brings to his toys, and it delivers with a welcome spirit and even a little sweetness.
Misty Green
Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Misty Green makes you rage against the Hollywood machine, laugh at the various ways different people deal with its maddening quirks, and hide behind your fingers as Misty chooses options that don’t help, either voluntarily or because her back is against the wall. It’s a powerhouse of acting that gives a unique angle on the inner workings of Hollywood, one that ironically might be competing for awards at year’s end.
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The filmmaker focuses on a character study of an actress who’s fighting for a second chance after burning too many bridges and he’s wisely cast someone who isn’t too well known. But that’s about to end for Rosalind Eleazar…
Musk
- Excerpt: Maybe Musk is joking when he says we’re probably in a simulation. Or maybe it’s just what he tells himself to justify his inability to care about the damage he inflicts on others.
My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile
- Excerpt: My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile picks up two days after Last Air in Moscow left off, and reintroduces the small group of main characters we got to know like friends over the course of the first film’s five-hour-plus running time. This second film is even longer, clocking in at close to six hours, and covers a longer span of time, stretching from the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2022 through Trump’s second inauguration in 2025—an uncomfortable reminder that Russia is not the only nation thrall to a strong man who governs by bending the truth whichever way suits him best.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Beyond these logistical struggles, however, are also just unforgettable human moments that better help contextualize why things have gotten here. The lives beneath the careers.
Naza
Paulo Portugal @ Esquerda.net [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Depois da passagem apoteótica em Veneza e em San Sebastián, NAZA transformou-se num dos filmes mais comentados do ano. O documentário de Yuval Abraham e Rachel Szor está em exibição em Portugal.
Once Upon a Time in the Middle East
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I really like Jiang’s slowly hardening Ma still holding onto his empathetic heart. And Shen is fantastic as his ever-endearing Xu eventually realizes he can’t talk himself out of every situation.
Other Mommy
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Other Mommy is one of those movies that makes for a great two-and-a-half-minute trailer, but when you see the whole thing, you realize how much it doesn’t work.
- Excerpt: Jessica Chastain does double duty in this overwrought, mega-campy, but not entirely ineffective haunted-kid horror.
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It seems to believe that all it takes to scare an audience is loud noises or sudden appearances, and it overuses CGI in an attempt to present disturbing images (which, unfortunately, aren’t disturbing at all).
Ray Gunn
Lexi Amoriello @ Movie Recs By Lex
Run Terry Run
- Excerpt: Run Terry Run is a stirring documentary of this young man, one that will likely reduce you to tears. Told entirely through archival footage, and with narration from his team, friends and family, director Sean Menard’s film reminds us that it was Fox’s sheer will that made him a hero.
Runner
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A film packed with explosive, bloody action, funny gags, likeable characters, detestable villains, and credible motivations.
A Statement
Lexi Amoriello @ Movie Recs By Lex
Stranglehold
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Stranglehold never pretends it’s trying to be something it’s not. So, I don’t necessarily mind the uneven messaging since thinking it will contain nuanced commentary says more about you than it.
Tony
Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
V/H/S/Mixtape
- Excerpt: Most of what’s here doesn’t rise above being average, and that feels like too little reward for having to watch so much GWAR.
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The best segments deal seriously with how sound—often associated with beauty and pleasurable experiences—can produce terrible things that offer no inspiration but instead deliver only dread, brutality, and madness.
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