The Film Verdict

Stephen Dalton The Film Verdict Oct 24, 2026 7/10 Director Alex Gibney's marathon documentary portrait of controversial billionaire businessman Elon Musk is rich in gossipy detail but short on surprises. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Stephen Dalton The Film Verdict Oct 24, 2026 7/10 Theo Rollason's found-footage documentary paints an intimate, absorbing, timely portrait of radical gay film-maker Derek Jarman during a stormy political period. Go to Full Review Queer Edward II (2026) 100% - -

Stephen Dalton The Film Verdict Oct 24, 2026 5/10 Naomi Watts plays a prim suburban housewife with a very dark past in director Ben Shirinian's good-looking but heavy-handed debut feature, a based-on-reality period thriller set in 1960s New York. Go to Full Review The Housewife (2026) 40% - -

Stephen Dalton The Film Verdict Oct 24, 2026 8/10 Spanish writer-director duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi revisit the life and legacy of queer literary icon Federico García Lorca in this ravishing if slightly ungainly epic, a prize-winning Oscar hopeful backed by Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar. Go to Full Review La Bola Negra (2026) 87% - -

Stephen Dalton The Film Verdict Oct 24, 2026 8/10 Jesse Eisenberg both mocks and celebrates his fellow actors, writers and directors in this warm-hearted backstage musical comedy, which co-stars Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti on blazingly good form. Go to Full Review The Debut (2026) 91% - -

Stephen Dalton The Film Verdict Oct 24, 2026 8/10 Jordan Firstman writes, directs and stars in this big-hearted comedy about a gay New York club promoter forced to reassess his party lifestyle after learning he has a young son. Go to Full Review Club Kid (2026) 100% - -

Stephen Dalton The Film Verdict Oct 24, 2026 7/10 Hungarian writer-director György Pálfi works with a plucky cast of real animals in this scrappy but technically impressive comic thriller about a rebellious hen on the run from the chicken-industrial complex. Go to Full Review Hen (2025) 100% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Oct 23, 2026 Watkins mounts some memorably terrifying (and squishy) moments, particularly a sequence in a turbulence-tossed airplane in which Matt attempts to cut apart his eyelids with some tiny but very sharp scissors. (Somewhere, Buñuel and Dalí are smiling.) Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2026 This year’s Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat 2 proved that video-games can be given new life on the big screen, mixing thrills, action, humor, and self-awareness. Street Fighter assembles those elements but never lands on a formula that functions. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Oct 9, 2026 It’s disappointing enough that the movie has filched so many of its good ideas from elsewhere, and even worse that it’s picked up some bad ones along the way. Go to Full Review Other Mommy (2026) 19% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Oct 7, 2026 The greatest flaw of The Social Reckoning is that David Fincher isn’t directing, but its greatest strength is Sorkin’s script, which the writer directs with greater competence and energy than earlier behind-the-camera efforts. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 29, 2026 Where legendary film director Ernst Lubitsch was famous for his "touch," Iñárritu’s aesthetic style is more akin to a Godzilla-sized stomp. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 23, 2026 There’s a lovely central story about two lifelong best friends, and the movie buries that story in so much plot, mythology, magical creatures, and mini-quests that it dares viewers not to lose the thread. Go to Full Review Forgotten Island (2026) 95% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 22, 2026 Ayer and Alexander aren’t reinventing the wheel when it comes to survival tales, but they do so with unsparing efficacy, delivering moments of both suspense and compassion. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 84% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 16, 2026 Like Hannah Einbinder in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, hired to breathe life into "zombie IP," Cregger brings his trademark horror-comedy combo to the goings-on at the Umbrella Corporation. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 8, 2026 The finished product shares many of the original film’s flaws, from careening shifts in tone to not enough screen time for Stockard Channing and Dianne Weist as Sally and Gillian’s wise, eccentric aunts. Go to Full Review Practical Magic 2 (2026) 36% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Aug 31, 2026 Wingard and Barrett are clearly going for gut-bucket grindhouse here, but even by those particular standards, Onslaught arrives as a particularly loathsome bucket of guts. Go to Full Review Onslaught (2026) 60% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Aug 26, 2026 For all the style that director Ridley Scott can muster — and, admittedly, that’s a whole lot of style — The Dog Stars serves up a post-apocalypse with a heavy sense of familiarity. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Aug 19, 2026 Chase finds organic ways to set up his scary set pieces, whether it’s the dentist’s office where Gemma works or a claustrophobic maze-like scene that coincidentally resembles a recent horror hit about endless spaces. Go to Full Review Insidious: Out of the Further (2026) 58% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Aug 12, 2026 Amid the pervasive wackiness, which never gets tiresome, Burch skillfully weaves in both a legitimate mystery (its real-life ramifications bring to mind another Todd Haynes film, Dark Waters) and some genuine character moments. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -