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: Aug. 21, 2026
Wide (United States)
Insidious: Out of the Further
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Limited (United States)
Blood Shine
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Blood Shine is somewhere in between. It’s an ambitious and thematically intriguing production that unfortunately suffers from an unnecessary prologue, a repetitive second act, an unclear script and an overall sense of frustration.
It Ends
Chris Barsanti @ Slant Magazine
- Excerpt: It Ends is a neatly crafted, if somewhat under-imagined, inquiry into a Twilight Zone scenario.
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: an existential psychological thriller and four way character study that tackles the very meaning of life itself, a heady theme for a debut but [Ullom] and his cast are up to the challenge.
2026 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
The End of Oak Street
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Ice Cream Man
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Mercy
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The Odyssey
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One Night Only
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The Rivals of Amziah King
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Battlefield
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Campo di Battaglia é um filme competente e inteligente, embora o seu formato muito assente nos diálogos e em cenas relativamente compartimentadas lhe dê, por vezes, um carácter algo teatral.
The Best Pizza Is in LA
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É um filme para abrir o apetite e que não se deve ver de barriga vazia ou quando a única pizza por perto é daquelas de produção em massa.
The Birthday Party
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I can see people dismissing it as style over substance, but there’s a lot of the latter too if you let its intricacies wash over you. Its complexity simply exists in its characters rather than its plot.
Cruel Hands
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Uma incrível primeira obra onde fotografia e som se combinam para fazer sentir tudo que um thriller deve fazer sentir.
Don’t Say Good Luck
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: It maybe uneven at times, but it never drifts away from being completely and utterly human.
An Eye for an Eye
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Strip away the emotion inherent to the reality that Tahereh’s freedom remains in the hands of Hossein’s family and the story on-screen becomes a dissection of a broken justice system born from religious intolerance rather than logic or morality.
Her Private Hell
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Refn já passou pelo seu auge e não se encaminha para nada bonito. Não preciso de lhe dar mais oportunidades.
Killer Whale
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Desperdiça uma oportunidade de ser diferente e tem o azar de vir numa época com demasiados filmes semelhantes. Será para esquecer no dia seguinte.
Nimrods
- Excerpt: Nimrods is a nice reminder of what a small-scale movie used to look like while being entirely modern and authentic enough to the teenage experience.
- Excerpt: Nimrods’ great adventure unquestionably delivers on the road trip movie’s promise of fun and memorable exploits.
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie
- Excerpt: It couldn’t be more satisfyingly designed for its intended audience, precisely at the age when it is especially reassuring to have fantasy films about children (human and canine) who are brave, dedicated helpers and problem-solvers. Like a boy band, the different pup characters give children a selection of characters and catchphrases and extremely cool transforming vehicles!
Reayhan
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É um filme que apenas retrata um caso real e já nos deixa revoltados e perturbados. Saber o número de outros casos – e os não reportados – seria de tirar o sono.
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Aren Bergstrom @ 3 Brothers Film
- Excerpt: Who is the samurai and who is the prisoner referred to in the title of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest, The Samurai and the Prisoner? The answer might surprise you, as will many of the narrative turns and thematic explorations of this whodunnit set in late 16th-century feudal Japan.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: While other films have made fun of horror movie tropes before, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma finds a wholly unique way of doing so. It’s a funny and daring trip into the psyches of two women who may be victims of their own obsessions, and of the movies that made them that way.
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: While I won’t pretend that I completely understand it after one viewing, it’s a trip and a half.
Union County
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Being kept at arm’s length doesn’t diminish the performances, though. Poulter is at his quiet best with a superficial posture of anger that can’t help but make way for the sorrow he’s so desperate to hide.
2025 Films
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Quando começam os créditos, reparamos que estamos prostrados. O filme deu-nos uma bela coça com todas as suas mensagens.
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