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David Sims The Atlantic Oct 15, 2026 Though parts of the movie are unavoidably funny, the project is less explicitly comedic than you might expect, given Fielder’s previous work. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 98% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Oct 8, 2026 The Social Reckoning isn’t wrong about the troubled world Facebook has helped make. The film just can’t talk about it in a remotely interesting way. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Oct 2, 2026 Sure, not everyone will dig it. But as a Hollywood-star project, its existence is fascinating. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Sep 26, 2026 Pattinson’s performance comes across as fake in just the right ways -- it’s an impersonation of someone who was himself living as an impersonator. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Sep 15, 2026 The director’s skill with action filmmaking and the highs of the tensest set pieces should have been enough to excite me for a sequel... But after throwing some thrilling opening haymakers, Hope doesn’t offer enough to really encourage me back. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 79% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Sep 9, 2026 The film feels needlessly complex. Rather than just delivering on its clean setup, it becomes fixated on teasing future installments—a symptom of the obsession with sequelization that’s affecting even smaller genre films. Go to Full Review Onslaught (2026) 60% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Aug 25, 2026 It Ends thrives on an utter lack of information about what is happening and why. The terror of liminality is how effortlessly it evokes the creepiness of a bad dream, the kind that begins in the middle of the story and seems just off. Go to Full Review It Ends (2025) 93% - -

Faith Hill The Atlantic Aug 18, 2026 One Night Only does capture something true about the anxieties and pressures of modern singlehood. The prospects can seem both abundant and astoundingly unappealing. Not trying feels like missing an opportunity, but trying might be worse. Go to Full Review One Night Only (2026) 44% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Aug 10, 2026 As past and present, “fiction” and “reality” swirl together for an inscrutable final act, Schoenbrun finds a fresh way to make an incisive observation about 21st-century life. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Aug 7, 2026 Although Tony is a necessarily minor piece of storytelling, it feels deceptively major nevertheless -- and is infused with just enough of its subject’s real-world charisma. Go to Full Review Tony (2026) 93% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Jul 30, 2026 Spider-Man: Brand New Day briefly aspires to be unconcerned with the plotty goings-on of the Avengers and their ilk, yet as Destin Daniel Cretton’s movie drags on, it’s used as a launchpad for future projects. Go to Full Review Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) 90% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Jul 15, 2026 Nolan delivers that rarest breed of blockbuster with The Odyssey -- a visual extravaganza shot entirely in IMAX and best seen projected onto a mountain-size screen. Yet the movie manages to be a challenging, personal work, too. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Vikram Murthi The Atlantic Jul 14, 2026 Ridiculous remains uninvolving compared with C.K.’s pre-2017 specials, which fits a pattern: His post-allegation jokes just aren’t as memorable as his most acclaimed routines. Go to Full Review Louis C.K: Ridiculous (2026) 45% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Jun 27, 2026 Supergirl the character still has a lot going for her, presumably including a future in the DC Universe. Supergirl the film, meanwhile, is only a mildly diverting whiff. Go to Full Review Supergirl (2026) 52% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Jun 27, 2026 Accusing the film of tech hysteria would be easy, but I found myself impressed by how forcefully the script charges at an issue that adults might actually want to talk to their children about as they leave the theater together. Go to Full Review Toy Story 5 (2026) 92% - -

Alison Stine The Atlantic Jun 23, 2026 It’s not an advance so much as a return. Childhood has been this way forever: wonderful and hard and full of horror. Labyrinth just helps us remember what, deep down, in the dark, we’ve always known. Go to Full Review Labyrinth (1986) 63% 86%

James Parker The Atlantic Jun 18, 2026 Clichés and hoary tropes abound... In one respect, though, Young Washington nails it. Go to Full Review Young Washington (2026) 59% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Jun 18, 2026 Sarnoski and Jackman take a name associated with heroic antics and remove that element, asking the viewer to engage with smaller, more human stakes. The gambit is daring, but it’s never uninteresting. Go to Full Review The Death of Robin Hood (2026) 69% - -

David Sims The Atlantic Jun 9, 2026 It’s as flat, simple, and static as possible. That the film is filled with an overwhelming amount of product placement makes it feel only more uncinematic. In the end, Bargatze’s big-screen experiment is doomed by its desire to be extremely ordinary. Go to Full Review The Breadwinner (2026) 19% - -

Emma Stefansky The Atlantic Jun 9, 2026 At 26 years old, Barker is speaking directly to his own generation -- the moviegoing Zoomers -- by making a meal out of their most pressing interpersonal crises. Go to Full Review Obsession (2025) 93% - -