Like the best of Pixar's recent original stories, LUCA and TURNING RED, HOPPERS is a modest toon compared to the studio's classics, but the nutty action eco-comedy has charm, laughs and plenty of surprises. I had an unexpectedly good time with it. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Love the retro Saul and Elaine Bass styling of this French marketing for THE SECRET AGENT.

Nobody makes nature docs quite like Werner Herzog. In GHOST ELEPHANTS, he treks to the Angolan highlands in search of a possibly mythical herd of XL pachyderms. In theaters today ahead of its March 7 NatGeo premiere. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

A nice coup for the Cannes Film Festival. After frequent Croisette appearances with OLDBOY, THE HANDMAIDEN and DECISION TO LEAVE, among others, Park Chan-wook will be the first Korean director to serve as president of the official competition jury at the 79th edition in May.

Had a blast at EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT, Baz Luhrmann's exhilarating companion piece to his 2022 bio-drama and a barn-burner among music performance docs. Don't even try to keep your feet still. On IMAX screens now ahead of Friday's wide release. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I'm no metalhead, but I was thoroughly entertained, even touched, by THE BALLAD OF JUDAS PRIEST, a delightful tale of working-class lads from the industrial British Midlands who endured for 50 years and made it to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Warwick Thornton's connection to the landscapes of his Central Australian birthplace breathes epic dimension into WOLFRAM, a Western-style saga of painful Indigenous experience imbued with resonant notes of resilience, hope and heart. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Set in a remote village in the Turkish mountains, Emin Alper's SALVATION is a powerful drama of feuding clans fueled by dreams and superstitions, spiraling into a chilling anatomy of a massacre. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Fernando Eimbcke’s delicate story of human connection and loss, MOSCAS (FLIES), gracefully weaves together droll humor and melancholy tenderness. A gentle charmer that recalls the Mexican director’s 2004 debut feature, DUCK SEASON. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Who doesn’t want to watch Isabelle Huppert licking her lips after sinking her fangs into a young Viennese beauty? The arch tone of Ulrike Ottinger’s bonkers queer vampire comedy, THE BLOOD COUNTESS, wore thin for me, but Huppert is sublime. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Completely swept away by Anthony Chen's hypnotic micro-macro study of poetry & beauty in the lives of a Singaporean family, WE ARE ALL STRANGERS. Strong Edward Yang homage vibes & elegant symmetry with Chen's first feature, ILO ILO. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Robert Duvall and Frederick Wiseman. Two men who made giant contributions to cinema gone within a day of each other. Colossal losses.

Amy Adams struggles with life after rehab in Kornél Mundruczó's dour but well-acted drama of trauma and addiction, AT THE SEA, which under-uses a stellar supporting cast including Murray Bartlett, Brett Goldstein, Dan Levy and Jenny Slate. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Had a fantastic time at Baz Luhrmann's EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT, an exhilarating companion piece to the director's 2022 bio-drama and a barn-burner among music performance docs. Really shows what all the hysteria was about. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The reliably excellent Sandra Hüller does not disappoint in Markus Schleinzer’s haunting character study ROSE, playing an early 17th century German woman passing as a man in what will surely be one of the performances of the year. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Brit actor Ashley Walters makes a very solid directing debut with ANIMOL, a riveting youth prison drama veined with tenderness, with a terrific lead in Tut Nyuot. A real surprise. Walters' 'Adolescence' castmate Stephen Graham also appears. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Karim Aїnouz’s thorny ROSEBUSH PRUNING is an often tartly funny all-star satire of wealth, privilege, abuse and the rot at the core of a patriarchal family. But its glib shallowness leaves a sour aftertaste. #Berlinale2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I've always been a bit of a jazz agnostic but the thrilling opening sequence in EVERYBODY DIGS BILL EVANS at the Village Vanguard in 1961 had me glued from the start. Deserves to be a breakout role for Anders Danielsen Lie as the influential pianist. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

So moved by MOUSE, an unassuming but lovely coming-of-age drama from the team behind GHOSTLIGHT. The great Sophie Okonedo and terrific newcomer Katherine Mallen Kupferer are enormously captivating together. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The #Berlinale2026 opener is described by its director as a political rom-com, but much of the comedy appears to have been left behind in the absorbing but often heavy-handed Afghan melodrama, NO GOOD MEN. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Back in Berlin to tackle another crop of new films what feels like minutes after Sundance. Check back starting later today for reviews from THR's critics.

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi whip up the tempestuous winds of dangerous obsession in WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emerald Fennell's big, lush, willfully overwrought and decidedly non-Gothic Brontë banger for the Bridgerton crowd. Shhh, I had fun with it. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Now in theaters in select cities, Oliver Laxe’s SIRĀT is mind-blowing visceral cinema — a profoundly unsettling, spiritually transporting existential trip. Absolutely unmissable. Seen here after a Friday night Q&A at @IFCCenter.bsky.social, the director clearly was born to play Heathcliff.

Now in theaters, Maryam Touzani's CALLE MÁLAGA is a gentle crowd-pleaser about aging without surrender, led by the great Carmen Maura in a role whose tenacity, mischief and soulfulness tap a direct link back to her Almodóvarian glory days. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Good to see Gore Verbinski back with his customary verve & a fun cast led by Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson and Juno Temple. That makes the AI apocalypse sci-fi-comedy GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE entertaining even if it could have used sharper teeth. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Is there a more beautiful father-son scene in a recent movie than this one from THE SECRET AGENT, played with enormous heart by Wagner Moura and Enzo Nunes? This kid is an absolute natural and one of many reasons the film deserves to be the first Oscar winner for best casting.

Ozempic? Wegovy? Natalie Ericka James' entertaining but messy SACCHARINE maintains that consuming cremated human ashes will get those pounds off faster, albeit with the bother of a hangry ghost coming after you. #Sundance2026. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

A deserving Grand Jury Prize winner at #Sundance2026, NUISANCE BEAR is one part nature doc and two parts haunting ethnographic study, about polar bears and the Indigenous people who have co-existed with them for 4,000 years in the Canadian Arctic. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The simplest throwaway line in HEARTBURN made me adore Catherine O’Hara, when she skips out to the supermarket carpark after getting some juicy fabricated gossip from Meryl Streep. The attendant tells her to have a nice day, and she chirps back, “You KNOW I will!” Comedy genius. 💔

With #SundanceFilmFestival wrapping up for the last time in Park City, THR's critics pick 15 standouts from the "Farewell, Utah" edition, some of which we'll hopefully still be talking about a year from now. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan bring transcendent grace to FRANK & LOUIS, a sensitively observed drama that skips the usual prison movie clichés in favor of dignity, compassion and the reciprocal rewards of caregiver work. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Will Poulter and Noah Centineo, both terrific, embed with real-life recovering addicts in a rural Ohio court program in Adam Meeks' docu-drama UNION COUNTY, which is low-key to a fault but bristles with authenticity. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

A deadly mutating fungus risks getting out into the world if Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell & Liam Neeson don't stop it in COLD STORAGE, an endearingly silly sci-fi horror comedy with a goofy retro vibe and a game cast. Yes, January is put-out-the trash time! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Got a huge kick out of Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff’s genuinely stirring biographical doc about the great Billie Jean King, GIVE ME THE BALL! You couldn’t ask for a more engaging, funny, down-to-earth subject. Another highlight of #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Rumors that I bounced around screeching along to "Olympia" while playing my Hole CDs to death in the '90s are unconfirmed. Still, I was a captive audience for ANTIHEROINE, celebrating the fearless, fierce rock queen Courtney Love. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Loved Noah Segan's fine-grained crime thriller THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK, with John Turturro in mesmerizing form as an honorable thief who steals from the wrong creep. A #Sundance2026 standout — contemplative, melancholy, beautiful. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Cooper Raiff shines as a humorist reeling from loss in SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU, Jay Duplass' film of standup comic Adam Cayton-Holland's memoir. But the unquestionable sincerity is undermined by cloying funny-sad indie grief drama preciousness. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Depression-era Americana with a Western flavor is my kind of period piece. But despite strong work from Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe, Julia Jones and a live-wire Austin Amelio, THE WEIGHT is a high-stakes drama that seldom summons much power. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Writing is an act of resistance for the subject of KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE, Alex Gibney's rivetingly intimate account of the near-fatal attack on the 'Satanic Verses' author and his year of recovery and reflection. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Director Olivia Wilde stars with Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton in THE INVITE, a scabrously funny marital comedy-drama that teases, eviscerates and maybe even heals. Polished and entertaining, confirms Wilde as the real deal. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Scaling way down after the cloying misstep of A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY, Kogonada attempts a return to the elegant poetry of his debut, COLUMBUS, with ZI, an elliptical microbudget Hong Kong experiment that sadly is too wispy to resonate. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

With a debt to 'Barney,' Casper Kelly swaps a purple dinosaur for a homicidal orange plush unicorn (drolly voiced by MVP Keegan-Michael Key) in BUDDY, a subversive horror satire of kids' educational TV that could use sharper teeth. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Bless Gregg Araki for bringing sexy back (along with mischievous fun) to #Sundance2026 in I WANT YOUR SEX. Olivia Wilde & Cooper Hoffman are spectacular together and that ensemble (Charlie xcx, Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Daveed Diggs) is perfection. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Good to see a psychological drama about a kind of brutal childhood trauma not previously depicted in countless movies. Beth de Araújo’s JOSEPHINE, with Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, has parental issues, but it’s riveting nonetheless. #Sundance2016 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Rachel Lambert's melancholy romantic drama CAROUSEL isn't perfect, but it's easy to look past the flaws with performances as beautiful and deeply felt as those of Chris Pine, Jenny Slate and Abby Ryder Fortson. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Domhnall Gleeson brings much-needed humor and poignancy to THE INCOMER, an otherwise abrasive comedy of the absurd set on a remote Scottish island sinking under the weight of quaintness and quirks. #Sundance2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Lots to celebrate with the Oscar noms but nothing comes close to the joy of seeing THE SECRET AGENT land in 4 categories, including a richly deserved best actor spot for Wagner Moura and the wonderful surprise of casting, which is the movie's secret weapon. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Director Joe Carnahan puts his genre skills to solid use in Netflix's twisty cop thriller THE RIP, with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck leading a starry cast that includes Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Kyle Chandler. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I'll review Baz Luhrmann's EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT closer to its late Feb. release. For now I'll just say this sets the bar high as the biggest blast I've had at a new movie in 2026. Exhilarating stuff, and I've never even been a major Elvis fan.

Cult fanaticism is a nastier menace than the flesh-eating “infected” in 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, Nia DaCosta’s entry in Danny Boyle & Alex Garland’s Rage Virus series. But the main event is Ralph Fiennes turning it up to 11 and going full metal. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...