226 featured critic reviews. Page 25 of 26.
★★★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
Sergi López crosses the Moroccan desert chasing bass lines and loss in Oliver Laxe's 92% Cannes trance — Metacritic midyear arthouse lists can't stop ranking it.
A masterpiece-tier festival film that divides casual viewers but defines 2026 Spanish cinema on Celluloid.
★★★★☆
İlker Çatak follows The Teachers' Lounge with a Golden Bear-winning drama about a Turkish artist couple crushed by state retaliation.
Urgent, gripping, occasionally overextended.
★★★★½
Daniel Chong hops human minds into robot beavers — 94% critics, 92% audiences, Metascore 80, and the year's smartest family event.
Editor's pick — the animation anchor on Best of 2026 that Empire and Variety both flagged as essential March counterprogramming.
★★★★☆
Steven Soderbergh's 88% Tomatometer two-hander pairs Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen in a London family reckoning that critics love more than crowds do.
Awards-season craft with Soderbergh speed — essential for Coel and McKellen fans, though its emotional reserve will leave some viewers cold.
★★★★☆
Yoo Hae-jin anchors Jang Hang-jun's Joseon-era drama — Korea's #1 2026 grosser with 85% critics and a 94% audience surge that national box-office reporting confirms.
Essential Korean theatrical viewing — history as intimate moral thriller, not costume wallpaper.
★★★★½
Brazil's 2026 export of the year — Wagner Moura flees dictatorship surveillance in a 93% political thriller that Metacritic and Empire both placed among essential non-English theatricals.
Masterpiece-tier world cinema — the Brazilian title I would send any reader to first on the 2026 leaderboard.
★★★★½
Nia DaCosta and Alex Garland expand the rage-virus saga with Ralph Fiennes, ritual dread, and a 91% Tomatometer winter horror that Empire's genre desk ranked among January's essential theatricals.
The franchise's coldest, most ambitious chapter — not as immediately accessible as the sprint, but the horror movie 2026 needed in dead of winter.
★★½☆☆
Funke Akindele's record-breaking family drama connects with audiences even as its glossy staging and telegraphed twists frustrate critics.
Crowd-pleasing but creatively cautious