The Travers Take

Peter Travers The Travers Take 3 days ago 3.5/4 John Malkovich guns for Oscar gold alongside Sam Rockwell in a political thriller from Martin McDonagh that goes for the jugular. You’ll laugh. It’ll hurt. It'll stay with you. Go to Full Review Wild Horse Nine (2026) 93% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take 3 days ago 2.5/4 Dame Helen Mirren electrifies as crime novelist Patricia Highsmith, while scenes without her fizzle. I’m thinking that Highsmith would have hated this movie for trivializing her anarchic art into something so conventional. Go to Full Review A Talent for Murder (2026) 78% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take 3 days ago 2.5/4 As a wife and mother whose husband is accused of an unspeakable crime, Léa Seydoux gives a performance that deserves all the raves it’s getting. She can move from hope to dread and all stops in between without uttering a single word. Go to Full Review Gentle Monster (2026) 69% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take 3 days ago 1/4 There’s nothing like an early holiday Santa slasher comedy brainlessly splashed with gore if you’re so desperate you can’t find anything else. My reaction? Ho-Ho Hell No! Go to Full Review Christmas at the Kringles (2026) 0% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 23, 2026 2.5/4 OK, it’s no classic, but this try-hard scarefest gets the job done for Halloween with a No. 1 box-office contender loaded with delicious squirms and the rollercoaster kick of laughing while your stomach begs for mercy. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 23, 2026 4/4 Lee Chang-dong’s cinema bonfire and Oscar entry from South Korea hinges on two couples on both sides of the wealth divide who spend a weekend pretending to be equals. Just let this new landmark sneak up and floor you. It’s one of the year’s best. Go to Full Review Possible Love (2026) 100% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 23, 2026 3.5/4 Fasten your seatbelts—the art of human-drawn, stop-motion animation hits a new peak that will blow you away. The Oscar for best animated feature belongs right here Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 99% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 23, 2026 3/4 Shoutout to Oscar: The film soars by just letting the camera home in on the landscape of John Turturro’s face, where each shift of expression tells a story all its own. Go to Full Review The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) 97% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 23, 2026 3/4 Olivia Colman has hot sex with a straw basket, but the wicker is played by Alexander Skarsgård so it’s not that creepy. Alright, maybe a little creepy. Still it’s bonkers fun and sneakily heartfelt. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 23, 2026 3.5/4 Pawel Pawlikowski’s exquisitely observed and acted Oscar entry from Poland encapsulates post-war Germany through a father-daughter relationship played with singular sensitivity and feeling by Hanns Zischler and the magnificent Sandra Hüller Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 23, 2026 1.5/4 So shoot me vidgamers—the movie version is a hot mess with a few decent fights thrown in at the end, which are too little and too late Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 16, 2026 4/4 Forbidden love. Epic stakes. A volcano of creative ideas in full eruption. Can Spain’s gay gamechanger steal the Best Picture Oscar from "The Odyssey?" In a better world, hell yeah! It gets inside your head and just owns you. Go to Full Review La Bola Negra (2026) 87% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 16, 2026 4/4 A three-hour cinema landmark from prickly Nathan Fielder that follows fraudster Elizabeth Holmes to jail and makes a winning case for being the first doc ever to get into the Oscar race for best picture. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 16, 2026 2.5/4 The kid from Resident Evil gets swallowed by a whale and it’s slimy-scary good times in the belly of the beast until a soap opera plot drowns everything in tearjerking. Gross! Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 16, 2026 2.5/4 Georgia Oakley does a respectable job catching Jane Austen’s reserve and protofeminism. But a good cry is beyond her, as is the attending humor and heart, all gloriously alive in the 1995 version from Ang Lee and Emma Thompson. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 78% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 16, 2026 3.5/4 Doc legend Alex Gibney takes four hours to give the dark prince of tech billionaires the ass-kicking he deserves. It’s so worth it. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 9, 2026 1.5/4 A game Jessica Chastain makes obsessed Inde Navarretti faces as an evil Entity pretending to be maternal, but even if her horrorshow breaks box-office records it crashes and burns as human drama Go to Full Review Other Mommy (2026) 19% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 9, 2026 3.5/4 Oscar nominees Sebastian Stan and Renata Reinsve bring Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes prizewinner about a family accused of abuse to a theater near you and you’d be a fool to miss it. Like only the best movies, you can’t get this one out of your mind and heart. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 92% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 9, 2026 2/4 There’s a cinematic story to be told about the aftershocks of Facebook, but in this thin follow-up to the brilliant Social Network writer-director Aaron Sorkin lets his words get in the way Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 9, 2026 3/4 It’s not a new story. You can tell by the cobwebs. But writer-director Chris Rock and his dazzling star Rosalind Eleazar keep you riveted by the sheer force of their commitment. Go to Full Review Misty Green (2026) 61% - -