226 featured critic reviews. Page 24 of 26.
★★★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.
★★★★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.
★★★★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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★★
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.