Allegro Pastell Review: A Cult Novel's Cool Irony Gets Lost in Translation
★★★☆☆
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.
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★★★☆☆
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.
★★★★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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★☆☆☆
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.
★½☆☆☆
A promising Anatolian folk-horror premise about a djinn-communing healer collapses under flat pacing and cut-rate scares.
★★★½☆
Jaeden Martell and Asa Butterfield confront cry-video fame in Oscar Boyson's 88% critic / 65% audience debut — Empire's essential uncomfortable watch.
★★★★☆
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol's CBC mockumentary graduates to cinemas — Empire #8, 90% critics, and the sharpest Canadian meta-humor of 2026.
★★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.
★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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★½☆☆
Prilly Latuconsina's farewell to Risa Saraswati delivers scattered scares but buckles under four films' worth of ghost lore.
★★★★★
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.
★★★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.
★★½☆☆
Angelique Boyer and Bárbara de Regil turn a formulaic revenge-comedy premise into one of the year's biggest Mexican box-office draws.
★★★★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.
★★★★☆
İlker Çatak follows The Teachers' Lounge with a Golden Bear-winning drama about a Turkish artist couple crushed by state retaliation.
★★★★½
Daniel Chong hops human minds into robot beavers — 94% critics, 92% audiences, Metascore 80, and the year's smartest family event.
★★½☆☆
Omar Chaparro trades comedy for combat in a revenge thriller with genuinely first-rate action and a script that can't keep pace with it.
★★★½☆
Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Halle Berry collide in Layton's 85% LA jewel-heist — 140 minutes of freeway crime where nobody's story stays straight.
★★★★☆
Valerie Pachner delivers a devastating performance in this unflinching, autobiographical Berlinale drama about surviving unimaginable loss.
★★☆☆☆
Ludwika Paleta and Juanpa Zurita are game, but this age-gap romance sequel mistakes manufactured jealousy for genuine conflict.
★★★★☆
Raimi's boss-versus-employee survival horror clears 90% critics — Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien turn a plane crash into a battle of wills with Valentine's dread intact.
★★★★☆
Didem İnselel anchors a patient, quietly devastating drama about a disappearance that forces one family to reckon with years of unspoken resentment.
★★★★☆
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.