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: Jan. 9, 2026
Limited (United States)
All That’s Left of You
Maxance Vincent @ Loud & Clear Reviews
- Excerpt: Cherien Dabis draws one of the most important movies of the year with All That’s Left of You, a difficult but necessary watch to bear witness to past and present-day atrocities.
Dead Man’s Wire
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: After a couple of forays into television, director Gus Van Sant returns to feature filmmaking after seven years with a script by newcomer Austin Kolodney based on a true story from almost fifty years ago that couldn’t be more relevant today.
- Excerpt: Dead Man’s Wire is a very solid crime thriller built upon strong performances and an opaque sense of justice.
Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Between the balance of tension and comedy, let alone the additional social angles involving the economy, media, and more, there’s plenty Gus Van Sant is looking at with an interested eye.
OBEX
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Albert Birney (“Strawberry Mansion”) rewinds to 1987 to explore the roots of isolating computer culture within a delightfully retro technological adventure…invites us to reengage with lif
- Excerpt: Strawberry Mansion’s Albert Birney enters a video game fantasy, where escapism and nostalgia become a DIY nightmare.
Young Mothers
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Each actress delivers a heartfelt performance, the rawness of the characters’ desperation palpable from the very first scenes. Little by little, we grow to understand more of how each person found themselves in such dire straits, while also rooting for them to succeed.
2026 Films in Theaters Now in Select Areas
Been Here Stay Here
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Both Usui and his co-cinematographer, Peter Steusloff, provide breathtaking images that showcase the beauty of the region. It’s hard to believe that such a postcard-perfect place will soon disappear, and this despite the deep-seated religious beliefs that animate much of the community.
We Bury the Dead
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: We Bury the Dead doesn’t reinvent the zombie subgenre wheel, but remains a very emotional zombie story that’s more about confronting loss and grief than survival.
2025 Films
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Bugonia
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Eephus
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The Housemaid
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It Was Just an Accident
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
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Marty Supreme
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The Plague
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Predator: Badlands
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The Running Man
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Song Sung Blue
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
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The Testament of Ann Lee
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Train Dreams
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Wicked: For Good
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Zootopia 2
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40 Acres
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A aparente divisão em capítulos ajuda a aliviar, mas ainda assim a tensão não diminui. A última hora tem talvez dois minutos de conversa quase normal, tudo o resto é para manter a pulsação acelerada.
Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Mas nem para rever, nem para recordar. Foi uma bela oportunidade perdida.
Afternoons of Solitude
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: [Serra] merely films its violent dance with as much objectivity as possible so audiences can decide whether the imagery is beautiful, abhorrent, or both.
Anniversary
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Mesmo tendo visto vários filmes violentos, este é o que mais pode traumatizar.
Borderline
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: um filme para ver em grupo. Para rir bem alto com o cérebro desligado e desfrutar até ao final.
Cover-Up
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Hersh’s work ultimately speaks for itself and he has no desire to overshadow its potency with hindsight—a fact that doesn’t necessarily help the film’s ambition.
Dead of Winter
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews.com
- Excerpt: Technically fine but absurd kidnapping psychological thriller.
Father Mother Sister Brother
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: This often humorous and ultimately moving look at familial disconnection features three different families, but all three stories are linked with skateboarders, drinking water, the phrase ‘Bob’s your uncle’ and color coded clothing.
Folktales
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É uma combinação inesperada, mas divertida. Ninguém vai fazer as malas para o meio do gelo por causa disto, mas desde que pare para pensar já cumpriu a sua missão.
Harvest
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Fire, violence, and cruelty abound as these elements collide to force each party to look inward and take stock of their strength and loyalty amidst the uncertainty of their survival.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Fire, violence, and cruelty abound as these elements collide to force each party to look inward and take stock of their strength and loyalty amidst the uncertainty of their survival.
Hele Vejen
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Hele Vejen may feel familiar, though it’s a tough, emotional, and dark story that looks at the past’s repercussions in an individual’s present life.
A Little Prayer
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É um filme que marca se estivermos dispostos a isso. Que nos alerta se estivermos a passar por aquilo ou conhecermos alguém assim. Que dá imensa vontade e motivação de mudar de vida para melhor, mesmo que seja difícil.
Pillion
Sound of Falling
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Sound of Falling feels spiritually connected to Time of Moulting and The White Ribbon, all three reaching for similar perspectives on how the national traumas throughout German history play out in the personal traumas of German families and communities.
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Ben Hania and her cast convey the cumulative stress that builds from their work done at the Palestinian Red Emergency Center and the overwhelming sense of grief when they lose someone, the Hind Rajab case horrific in so many ways.
Wildcat
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews.com
- Excerpt: The story is contrived and convoluted.
2024 Films
Cabrini
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