Laika reaches new heights with Wildwood, a breathtaking fantasy epic and 2026’s best film. The studio’s extraordinary stop-motion animation brings a richly imagined world to life, while its compelling characters and emotional storytelling give the adventure tremendous depth. Director Travis Knight balances the film’s darker elements with thrilling action and genuine wonder. The result is […]

Tom Rhys Harries delivers an inspired performance as Matt Hagen, aka Clayface, elevating a gruesome blend of body horror and revenge thriller. Unfortunately, the film’s predictable revenge plot and underdeveloped romance prevent Clayface from reaching its full potential. Despite Naomi Ackie’s committed performance, the love story never finds its footing. Elements of Mike Flanagan’s original […]

Video game adaptations have surged in recent years, but Street Fighter struggles to capitalize on that momentum. Director Kitao Sakurai delivers a tonally inconsistent film that awkwardly balances a serious revenge story with over-the-top comedy. Strong performances from Andrew Koji and Andrew Schulz, along with entertaining action and impressive anime-inspired sequences, provide some much-needed bright […]

Marvel Studios has found success when its television projects explore the people behind the superheroes. VisionQuest continues that approach with a fascinating examination of identity, humanity and the weight of the past. Paul Bettany delivers another strong performance as Vision, but James Spader steals the show in his return as Ultron. Showrunner and writer Terry […]

Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and a stellar supporting cast shine in The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s best directorial effort and his strongest screenplay since Moneyball. While it shares a screenwriter and a central figure in Mark Zuckerberg with The Social Network, the two films approach their subject matter in markedly different ways. Uneven editing, […]

The Scrubs reboot, which premiered earlier in 2026, returns for a second season that builds on what worked while smoothing out a few bumps from its first season. Just two episodes in, Scrubs Season 2 has already accomplished something remarkable: this revival isn’t merely one of TV’s best reboots. It’s become one of TV’s best […]

Lanterns has spent its first season asking what makes someone worthy of becoming a Green Lantern. Its final four episodes answer that question while bringing Hal Jordan and John Stewart’s complicated partnership to an unexpectedly satisfying conclusion. The road there isn’t perfect, but Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre keep elevating a series that understands its […]

Tom Cruise delivers one of his most unusual performances in Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s sprawling satire about environmental collapse and corporate greed. Cruise and Iñárritu make for an unexpectedly fitting combination, with the actor embracing the director’s chaotic vision with trademark intensity. Unfortunately, Digger doesn’t always know how to contain its considerable ambition. Its tonal […]

Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever and Skyler Gisondo deliver stellar performances in Primetime, a dramatization of the rapid rise and abrupt fall of NBC’s To Catch a Predator. Wever and Pattinson, in particular, do some of the best work of their careers, bringing complexity and intensity to their roles. Unfortunately, the film around them struggles to […]

Zach Cregger’s mix of horror, humor, gore and just enough reverence for the games turns Resident Evil into one of the best video game adaptations to date. Austin Abrams delivers a winning performance as a medical courier whose seemingly ordinary day descends into a nightmarish hellscape. The first two acts are sublime, but the third […]