US Movie Releases

Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island — the setting of Wild Horse Nine . Illustration photo, not a film still. Photo: Mc vc, Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 4.0 . Key takeaways Wild Horse Nine opens in US theaters November 6, 2026, from Searchlight Pictures, after premiering in competition at Venice on September 3, where John Malkovich won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. It is not the somber Chilean-coup history drama the setup (CIA officers, Santiago, 1973, Easter Island) might suggest — it's a Martin McDonagh black comedy, closer in spirit to Seven Psychopaths and In Bruges than to a prestige historical drama. Critics are largely positive: 94% on Rotten Tomatoes (62 reviews) and 79/100 on Metacritic (25 critics) as of this writing, with Malkovich and Sam Rockwell singled out and a recurring note that it falls short of McDonagh's two best films. It rewards people who already like McDonagh's dry, bleak humor and his back catalog; it's a weaker fit for anyone wanting...

The sixth film in Lionsgate's Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping , opens in wide release on November 20, 2026 . It is the second prequel in the series, and it arrives with a structural problem the first prequel didn't have: you already know how most of its major characters turn out, because you watched them in the original four films over a decade ago. That changes what kind of movie this actually is, and it changes who gets the most out of a theater ticket versus a stream later. Jesse Plemons — who plays a young Plutarch Heavensbee in Sunrise on the Reaping — at the BFI London Film Festival premiere of Bugonia , October 10, 2025. File photo, not a still from this film. Photo by Raph_PH, original file , licensed CC BY 4.0 . Key takeaways Sunrise on the Reaping opens in U.S. theaters on November 20, 2026 — the sixth film in the series, its second prequel, and Francis Lawrence's fifth. It is Haymitch Abernathy's story, set 24 yea...

"Other Mommy" opened on October 9, 2026 to a stronger-than-expected $27.5 million domestic weekend, and it's still playing in theaters right now. But under the industry's current release pattern, every one of those theatrical windows has a clock attached to it. For a film that opened three and a half weeks ago, that clock is getting short. Here's what the film actually is, how its central scare compares to the closest thing theaters have offered before, and whether seeing it on a screen is still worth planning around. Jessica Chastain at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, February 2025 — a file photo of the actress, not a frame from the film. Photo by Harald Krichel, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Original file and license . Two impostor-mother horrors, side by side Other Mommy (2026) Goodnight Mommy (2022 remake) Runtime 93 minutes 91 minutes MPA rating R, for bloody violence and language R Release path Wide: 3,365 North American theaters, plus 50 inter...

Three days before Clayface opened, this article made a recommendation with no reviews, no box office and no runtime to work from: if you liked The Substance , buy a ticket, and do not expect to stream it before early December. Eleven days after release, all three of those blanks have been filled in. This is the same article, rebuilt as a test of its own claims — the proposition being "the pre-release case for Clayface held up" — checked against the primary record four times. Two of the four survive. One is comprehensively wrong. Naomi Ackie, who plays Dr. Caitlyn Corr in Clayface, at SXSW 2026 - file photo, not a still from the film. Photo: Sara Komatsu, via Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 4.0 Key takeaways Reviews exist now, and they split. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 77% from 213 critic reviews against a 94% audience score from 2,500+ verified ratings ; Metacritic reads 59 from 45 critics ("mixed or average") against a 7.4 user score from 234 ratings . The...

Most of what circulates before a video-game adaptation opens is not wrong so much as borrowed from the last one. Paramount's live-action Street Fighter reaches U.S. theaters on October 16, 2026, three days after this guide was checked, and the assumptions attached to it come from films released in 1994, 1995 and 2021. This is a pre-release guide: it works through the five or six things people assume about this release, and checks each against what has actually been announced. No claim is made to having seen the film. Jason Momoa, cast as Blanka in Street Fighter (2026) -- file photo from a 2017 public appearance, not a still from the film. Photo by Gage Skidmore , original file on Wikimedia Commons , licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 . Assumed: it continues the 1994 Van Damme film It does not. This is a separate adaptation with an unrelated cast and creative team, directed by Kitao Sakurai, whose previous feature was Bad Trip . The story is set in 1993 and built around Street Fighter II ...

Two courtroom films, one evening, and a choice that is usually made on the wrong basis. The listings put 12 Angry Men at 96 minutes and Anatomy of a Fall at 150 or 151 minutes depending on which catalog you open, and that gap - roughly 55 minutes, or more than three and a half person-hours once a group of four is sitting on the sofa - decides more about how the night goes than either film's reputation does. What follows is organised as a set of conditions rather than two reviews: find the line that describes your evening, and the recommendation is at the end of it. Reference photograph of Beverley Guildhall's courtroom in England; not a scene or filming location asserted for either movie. Michael D Beckwith, via Wikimedia Commons , CC0 1.0 . Displayed at a reduced size. Key takeaways Criterion lists 12 Angry Men at 96 minutes, 1957, United States, black and white, 1.66:1, English, spine number 591. The Cannes listing for Anatomy of a Fall says 151 minutes, France, 2023, and...

Planning a zombie night is a sequence of questions, and almost none of them are about which film is better. Who is in the room, what will they not sit through, which edition is actually being bought, and what time does the evening have to end? Night of the Living Dead and Train to Busan answer those questions differently, so what follows is arranged in the order the questions come up rather than as a ranking of the two films. This is a spoiler-light guide for U.S. viewers planning a home screening. Film information was checked on October 5, 2026. The time budgets below are explicitly hypothetical, with evening examples in U.S. Eastern Time. They are not cinema schedules, streaming availability guarantees, or a claim that every edition has the same running time. 1968 promotional poster for Night of the Living Dead ; artist unknown. Source: Wikimedia Commons . Public domain in the United States, under the file page’s PD-US-no-notice designation. This is a historical poster, not an im...

A movie night about meeting another intelligence can go wrong before the opening credits if the group expects an invasion spectacle and the choice is really about understanding evidence. Arrival and Contact make a useful pair for choosing that evening. The decision here is about the kind of question you want to spend time with, the time you can protect, and what would make the choice unsuitable. This is a spoiler-light selection guide built from studio and institutional records, not a claim of a personal screening or a report of a new theatrical release. Reference photograph of Stanford's radio telescope, December 13, 2019; not a still or filming location claim for Arrival or Contact. Photo: Christopher Bovee, Wikimedia Commons , CC BY 4.0 . No content changes; displayed at a smaller size. Step 1. Decide which question the evening is about Paramount's official Arrival page identifies the 2016 film as science fiction, thriller, and drama, directed by Denis Villeneuve. Its ...