The Best Movies of 2026 (So Far)
1. The Invite
Olivia Wilde's scathing, bitter, flat-out hilarious, and devastatingly sad dramedy comes out of nowhere to be the best of the year so far, impeccably accomplished in every level of filmmaking.
2. Blue Heron
First time filmmaker Sophy Romvari uses the medium of film like never before to grapple with her trauma in this naked, vulnerable, crushing amalgam of documentary and metafiction.
3. The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan's massive, messy epic is glaringly flawed, but is so ambitious that it succeeds far more frequently than it fails, and succeeds in spectacular fashion.
4. Project Hail Mary
Emotional, smart, and entertaining, "Hail Mary" is anchored by an incredible Ryan Gosling in a one-man-show type of performance and one of the most wholesome friendships in film history.
5. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Ralph Fiennes and Jack O'Connell take center stage in this profound, darkly funny, existential, and tonally masterful superior sequel to last year's killer modern horror classic.
6. Obsession
Streamer Curry Barker's film debut is an extremely unsettling and darkly entertaining thrill ride that features an all-time great horror performance by newcomer Inde Navarrette.
7. The Christophers
Director Steven Soderbergh continues the experimental era of his carer with this sharp, scathing, and unexpectedly emotion chamber piece led by a late-career masterpiece of a performance by Ian McKellen.
8. The Sheep Detectives
This cozy mystery family comedy comes out of nowhere to be one of the year's best thanks to a wholesome tone and its tackling of profound, existential themes.
9. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
The twenty year old web series gets a cinematic finale lightyears more clever, hilarious, touching, and better than it ever needed to be in the year's best comedy.
10. Is God Is
Another great debut sees filmmaker Aleshea Harris adapt her own play into a grindhouse-style, modern Southern Gothic revenge tale with an excellent, all-Black cast.