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Kaiser Khan is Founder & Editor of Celluloid and founder of Elite Digital AI Solutions Ltd, which owns CelluloidScore.com. An entrepreneur and cultural producer, he sets the site’s answer-first editorial standard and transparent four-input Celluloid Score.
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960 reviews published on Celluloid
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★★★★½
Markus Schleinzer's black-and-white Thirty Years' War drama is a masterclass in control, led by a career-best performance from Sandra Hüller.
Austere, immaculate, quietly devastating.
★★★½☆
David Frankel reunites Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Tucci for a $690M global sequel — 78% critics, 85% audiences, and runway glamour that outpaces the script.
Fan-service done professionally — the year's biggest fashion-event grosser on Best of 2026 for Prada faithful, optional for satire purists.
★★★★★
Katie Dippold's Apple horror-comedy gives Matthew Rhys a tourism pitch from hell — 98% critics, weekly scares, and the funniest civic denial of 2026.
Editor's pick — the 2026 streaming premiere to start with if you want laughs and fog in the same hour.
★★★☆☆
Antoine Fuqua's authorized Michael Jackson biopic rides 88% audience heat and IMDb midyear trending while critics stall at 55% — gloss, length, and legacy questions left open.
Mixed — a fan event more than a definitive portrait, useful for context on 2026's critic–audience divides.
★★★★★
George MacKay and Callum Turner sail Jenkin's analogue folk sci-fi — 99% Tomatometer, 88 Metascore, and Cornish time-slip cinema Empire ranked among the year's finest UK theatricals.
Masterpiece — editor's pick and the United Kingdom theatrical I would send any reader to after Bone Temple's rage.
★★★½☆
A notorious prison becomes a pressure cooker of gore, gallows humor, and institutional rot in Joko Anwar's most purely entertaining film in years.
Splattery, savage, and a lot of fun.
★★★★½
Sophy Romvari's autofictional family drama topped Metacritic's midyear limited-release chart — 96% critics, 91 Metascore, and a coastal stillness that rewards patience.
Editor's pick — Canada's quiet masterpiece among January–July 2026 releases, even if mainstream audiences find it austere.
★★★★☆
John Carney pairs Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas in an 88% Dublin song-theft drama — Ireland's feel-good theatrical of the spring with a third-act chorus that earns its key change.
Certified Fresh comfort on Best of 2026 — Ireland music cinema for anyone who wished Once had a slightly bigger budget and a lawsuit.
★★★☆☆
Anna Roller's adaptation of Leif Randt's beloved novel is a stylish but uneven portrait of a couple who talk more like a manifesto than two people in love.
Handsome but curiously airless.
★★★★½
David E. Kelley adapts Rufi Thorpe with Fanning, Pfeiffer, and Offerman — a 96% Certified Fresh story about bills, babies, and building an alien-themed OnlyFans to stay alive.
Warm without pity — one of Apple TV+'s best 2026 limited-feeling seasons, Emmy-bait performances included.
★★★★½
Richard Linklater reconstructs the making of Breathless in a 90% French-language fever dream — Guillaume Marbeck's Godard is arrogant, romantic, and essential viewing for cinephiles tracking 2026's world-cinema leaderboard.
The year's essential French export — Metacritic midyear world cinema and Cannes pedigree in one package.
★★★★☆
Kristoffer Borgli's A24 romantic black comedy turns a worst-confessions game into relationship free-fall — 89% critics, $132M worldwide, and Zendaya and Robert Pattinson at career-risk honesty.
Essential A24 conversation piece on Best of 2026 — a United States wedding-week spiral that rewards debate more than comfort.
★★★★½
Three Belfast friends, one funeral, murder and blackmail — McGee's 95% Netflix thriller-comedy is Empire and IMDb midyear UK's essential 2026 series.
Certified Fresh Belfast noir with Derry Girls wit — ended season one, eight episodes, worth a weekend.
★★☆☆☆
Iyabo Ojo's long-awaited sequel reunites a starry cast but can't decide if it's a thriller, a political drama, or a spiritual parable.
Overstuffed and unfocused
★½☆☆☆
A promising Anatolian folk-horror premise about a djinn-communing healer collapses under flat pacing and cut-rate scares.
Interesting folklore, forgettable execution.
★★★½☆
Jaeden Martell and Asa Butterfield confront cry-video fame in Oscar Boyson's 88% critic / 65% audience debut — Empire's essential uncomfortable watch.
Fresh for the brave — a United States indie on Best of 2026 about who owns pain when it goes viral.
★★★★☆
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol's CBC mockumentary graduates to cinemas — Empire #8, 90% critics, and the sharpest Canadian meta-humor of 2026.
Essential Canada comedy on Best of 2026 — cult TV finally worth the big-screen ticket.
★★½☆☆
Vedat İnceefe's committed performance can't fully rescue a period drama that flinches at the hardest questions about its notorious real-life subject.
Well-mounted, but morally evasive.
★½☆☆☆
A serial-killer thriller with real ideas about the roots of violence gets buried under a wildly inconsistent villain performance and a script that can't support its ambitions.
Interesting premise, sloppy execution.
★★★★☆
A three-years-unemployed man's race to prove himself before his family's Eid gathering turns into one of the year's most quietly honest comedies.
Funny, sincere, and uncomfortably relatable.
★★½☆☆
Prilly Latuconsina's farewell to Risa Saraswati delivers scattered scares but buckles under four films' worth of ghost lore.
Nostalgic, but narratively overstuffed.
★★★★★
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller turn Andy Weir's space-survival novel into 2026's most unanimously loved blockbuster — Gosling's teacher-turned-astronaut and Rocky the alien are the year's defining unlikely friendship.
A masterpiece of accessible sci-fi — the year's highest Celluloid Score among English-language tentpoles, now streaming on Prime Video with every ounce of its theatrical wonder intact.
★★★½☆
Ranveer Singh's 229-minute spy revenge epic became India's #1 H1 2026 grosser with 92% audience heat — even as critics stalled at 68% and Metacritic stayed silent.
Not a critic's film — an event you respect on its own maximalist terms, then return to stronger Hindi catalog titles for balance.
★★½☆☆
Angelique Boyer and Bárbara de Regil turn a formulaic revenge-comedy premise into one of the year's biggest Mexican box-office draws.
Predictable, but the leads make it work.