The Playlist

Marshall Shaffer The Playlist Oct 31, 2026 B- "The Mosquito Bowl" is at its best when it captures men bonding through touchdowns, and slightly less so when it does the same through trauma. Go to Full Review The Mosquito Bowl (2026) 37% - -

Brian Farvour The Playlist Oct 28, 2026 B- Its intentions remain somewhat elusive, but there’s little doubt this beautiful-looking film has something on its mind, even if exactly what it wants to say never fully comes into focus. Go to Full Review Moonfish (2026) - - - -

Marshall Shaffer The Playlist Oct 28, 2026 B+ This ability to hold the contemporary and the classical hand-in-hand without tipping the balance too aggressively in either direction portends that this "Sense and Sensibility" will have an audience long after its 2026 release. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 78% - -

Carlos Aguilar The Playlist Oct 22, 2026 A+ To call Wildwood the most stunning animated film of the year feels too reductive a compliment. It’s cinema of the highest order, visually sumptuous, but even more importantly, believably heartfelt. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 99% - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 21, 2026 C- Unfortunately, these meaty ideas often get applied like superficial makeup, never quite getting beneath the skin of the characters in convincing or meaningful ways. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 15, 2026 D+ There’s affection here, and flashes of inspired lunacy, but a tone isn’t a story, and nostalgia isn’t imagination. Street Fighter captures the feeling of a movie that never existed, but never quite figures out how to become a worthwhile movie of its own. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 15, 2026 A It is an essential work—impassioned, powerful, and must-see—and exactly the kind of documentary that should be taught in schools, not because DuVernay turns constitutional history into homework, but because she makes civics immediate... Go to Full Review 14th (2026) 82% - -

Brian Farvour The Playlist Oct 15, 2026 B+ This isn’t an easy film to sit through, nor does it necessarily invite repeat viewings. But its bleakness serves a purpose, and Van Dusen’s assured direction makes the ordeal difficult to dismiss. Go to Full Review A Prayer for the Dying (2026) 56% - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 15, 2026 B The film occasionally resembles an extended home movie, and those seeking rigorous insight into Sofia’s directing methods may find its ambitions limited. But that informality is central to its charm. Go to Full Review Making Marie Antoinette (2026) 100% - -

Brian Farvour The Playlist Oct 15, 2026 B ...it’s inoffensive overall, even as we know where it’s heading or didn’t know that Jillian and Johnny would, at some point, hook up; it’s far from tricky to not predict something along those lines eventually happening. Go to Full Review Falling (2025) - - - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 15, 2026 D+ Affleck wants to explore what happens when honorable people discover that the world demands indecent things of them, but the drama rarely earns the gravity it assigns to those quandaries. Go to Full Review Animals (2026) 30% - -

Simon Thompson The Playlist Oct 14, 2026 B Abrams' scenes with Brolin are emotional powder kegs, and their natural chemistry lets them move effortlessly between a desperate search for trust, tenderness, and connection, and confrontations as ferocious as the battle between the squid and the whale. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 8, 2026 B- Guadagnino and Rich have made a funny, strange, engaging, occasionally unnerving movie that remains interesting even when its ideas don’t fully cohere. Go to Full Review Artificial (2026) 95% - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 8, 2026 B The Social Reckoning can be exasperating, but as a forceful distillation of what the reporting uncovered, it makes the case that far more people should know about it while remaining remarkably watchable. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Chase Hutchinson The Playlist Oct 6, 2026 B- The result is a film that’s both shattering in some moments and superficial in others, making it hard to write off and even harder to fully embrace. Go to Full Review The Unknown (2026) 69% - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 5, 2026 B “A Statement” is nimble, sophisticated, layered, and frequently fascinating, but for some audiences, it may prove more intellectually stimulating and cerebral than emotionally cathartic. Go to Full Review A Statement (2026) 90% - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 5, 2026 B ...“Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall” understands that closeness in a concert film doesn’t require backstage access or explanatory context. Go to Full Review Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall (2026) 100% - -

Rodrigo Perez The Playlist Oct 3, 2026 B+ Behemoth! reveals a more intimate Gilroy without sacrificing his intelligence or craft, understanding how music can hold joy, shame, love, regret, and longing until a few notes bring the past rushing back. Go to Full Review Behemoth! (2026) 86% - -

Marshall Shaffer The Playlist Oct 2, 2026 B Yamazaki does not cut away from showing the monsters in full, nor does he chop up scenes so they exist only as blurry objects. Go to Full Review Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) 92% - -

Chase Hutchinson The Playlist Oct 1, 2026 A- It may be about the worst guy you know, but it’s also one of the funniest and most fascinating films to screen at TIFF. Go to Full Review Anchors Aweigh (2026) - - - -