Awards Watch

Cody Dericks Awards Watch 5 days ago B+ With Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building, Bruno Santamaría Razo manages to find ways to stretch the limits of what a film based on real life is able to do, in the same way that queer people expand the ideas of tradition and expectation all the time. Go to Full Review Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building (2026) - - - -

Ryan McQuade Awards Watch 6 days ago A- It’s awe-inspiring work from a studio and director who have consistently left us amazed at what they are able to do with the art form, and with Wildwood, they have raised the bar again. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 100% - -

Cody Dericks Awards Watch Oct 21, 2026 B Clayface is a greater achievement of ambition rather than actual execution. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 75% - -

August Hammel Awards Watch Oct 20, 2026 B+ Love of Your Life reaches for a familiar favorite in one of the industry’s old recipe books and blows the dust clean off the pages, cover, and bookjacket. Go to Full Review Love of Your Life (2026) 81% - -

Trace Sauveur Awards Watch Oct 15, 2026 D- I could think of no better inaugural release for the newly merged late-capitalist hellscape behemoth that is Skydance, the company formed by the unholy union of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Trace Sauveur Awards Watch Oct 14, 2026 B- ...if you thought Abrams’s high-pitched shrieks in Resident Evil were often funny, Whalefall puts them in more humbling contexts, where humans are beholden to nature's unbelievable leviathans. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 73% - -

Cody Dericks Awards Watch Oct 10, 2026 C Not that much of what we see of Other Mommy’s powers and gruesome habits is very scary. Go to Full Review Other Mommy (2026) 19% - -

Erik Anderson Awards Watch Oct 9, 2026 B+ [Andrew] Scott cements his own legacy here with Elsinore, the merging of his own Hamlet history, and his status as one of the greatest actors of his generation. Go to Full Review Elsinore (2026) 88% - -

Sophia Ciminello Awards Watch Oct 7, 2026 B+ Garfield’s depiction of Sam Altman is a masterclass in diabolical villainy. Go to Full Review Artificial (2026) 95% - -

Josh Parham Awards Watch Oct 7, 2026 C+ Escaping the long shadow of The Social Network was always going to be a difficult task for this film, and in a direct comparison, there’s no question it comes up short. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Ryan McQuade Awards Watch Oct 5, 2026 B+ A Statement has a breeze narrative with zippy dialogue that creeps up and slaps you in the mouth with its message at the end, landing a punch in the same impact that McCarthy’s previous work of biographical dramatic filmmaking did ten years ago. Go to Full Review A Statement (2026) 90% - -

Ryan McQuade Awards Watch Oct 5, 2026 A Godzilla Minus Zero is a deeply emotional, exhilarating epic that stands head and shoulders better than any big budget film you will see this year Go to Full Review Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) 96% - -

Ryan McQuade Awards Watch Oct 5, 2026 B+ [Tony Gilroy] conducts an interesting, personal project that ebbs and flows like an elegant piece of music that lands the final note just in time, and in the correct tempo. Go to Full Review Behemoth! (2026) 87% - -

Jorge G. Tenreiro Awards Watch Oct 5, 2026 A- ...a haunting documentary essay about the terrible cost of resistance but of the absolute necessity to keep courage, to keep rehearsing for a revolution that may yet come. Go to Full Review Rehearsals for a Revolution (2026) - - - -

Sophia Ciminello Awards Watch Sep 30, 2026 C+ Hathaway’s performance comes deliciously to life, delivering a diva turn with hilarious, icy line readings akin to her The Devil Wears Prada co-star Meryl Streep’s iconic characterization of Miranda Priestly. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Sophia Ciminello Awards Watch Sep 29, 2026 D+ Iñárritu commits one of the greatest sins a director can commit: believing his film will always be smarter than its audience. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Trace Sauveur Awards Watch Sep 22, 2026 If In Waves struggles to rise above the shadow of an overwhelming history of cancer dramas, it’s crafted by a collection of impressive artists that give it a spare sense of potency. Go to Full Review In Waves (2026) 94% - -

Trace Sauveur Awards Watch Sep 22, 2026 The strength of Miike’s filmmaking keeps this superficially absorbing scene to scene, but it’s otherwise a surprisingly frivolous take on the subject matter for a filmmaker whose work has historically rattled audiences. Go to Full Review Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo (2026) 43% - -

Trace Sauveur Awards Watch Sep 22, 2026 Babies can be pretty hit-and-miss, even for this kind of low-key situational trifle, but for that same reason it’s hard to be overly frustrated with it. Go to Full Review Babies (2026) 88% - -

Sophia Ciminello Awards Watch Sep 21, 2026 A- By centering the relationship between Elinor and Marianne, the latest edition of Sense and Sensibility is a fresh spin on a classic for a new generation. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 76% - -