Welcome to the best new movies of 2026! (If you’re looking for the previous big list of 2025’s best movies, it’s now in this guide, or you can find it using the navigation links below.) We’re adding the latest Certified Fresh films as they come out, so check back every week!
Critics Consensus: A remarkable directorial debut by Harry Lighton, Pillion is an unconventional romance that soars thanks to its nonjudgmental perspective and knockout performances.
Synopsis: A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. [More]
Critics Consensus: A moving chronicle of generational trauma and perseverance, All That's Left of You is a riveting drama that takes on the thematic breadth of an epic work.
Synopsis: In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course [More]
Synopsis: In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer over and [More]
Critics Consensus: Somber and boldly intimate, Mother of Flies is a folk horror chamber piece that infuses its meditation on death with jaw-dropping practical effects and ferocious weirdness.
Synopsis: A young woman suffering from a life-threatening illness ventures deep into the woods to seek the help of a mystical [More]
Critics Consensus: A beguiling odyssey that offsets its scrappy production values with sumptuously analog presentation, OBEX is a wildly inventive riff on the digital world.
Synopsis: In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early [More]
Critics Consensus: Quietly powerful and profoundly humanistic, Young Mothers deftly balances social observation with intimate character study to craft an essential portrait of resilience.
Synopsis: Five young mothers living in a shelter strive for a better future for themselves and kids amidst challenging upbringings. [More]
Critics Consensus: A direct continuation of 28 Years Later that ups the gore while deepening the dread, The Bone Temple is finely adorned by Nia DaCosta's unnerving direction as well as Ralph Fiennes and Jack O'Connell's inspired performances.
Synopsis: Expanding upon the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in 28 Years Later -- but turning that world [More]
Critics Consensus: Putting director Sam Raimi's penchant for diabolical mayhem to great use, Send Help doesn't need any assistance in thrills thanks to a very game Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien along with a viciously clever script.
Synopsis: In "Send Help," two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the [More]
Critics Consensus: Anchored by Daisy Ridley's magnetic performance and a grimly inventive premise, We Bury the Dead keenly uses familiar zombie tropes as a framework to deliver a beautifully shot, emotionally resonant meditation on loss and grief.
Synopsis: After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don't just rise -- they hunt. The military insists they are harmless and [More]
Critics Consensus: Putting a bracingly unique spin on poltergeists, A Useful Ghost is a refreshing genre-bender that distinguishes debut writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke as a filmmaker to watch.
Synopsis: March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has [More]
Critics Consensus:Magellan blends Lav Diaz's slow cinema rigor with the biopic form to create a visually hypnotic, deliberately paced historical epic that immerses viewers in a spiritually charged meditation on power, mythology, and colonial ambition.
Synopsis: 16th century. Magellan, a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator, rebels against the power of the King, who doesn't support his [More]
Critics Consensus: Leveraging Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's classic chemistry to texturize a friendship tested by greed, The Rip tears into its potboiler setup with compulsively watchable confidence.
Synopsis: Upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house, trust among a team of Miami cops begins to fray. [More]
Critics Consensus:A Private Life mixes Hitchcockian suspense, glossy aesthetics, and a playful streak of camp into an entertaining if somewhat slight mystery that's held together by Jodie Foster's captivating presence.
Synopsis: When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the death of one of her patients she is deeply troubled. Convinced that [More]
Critics Consensus:People We Meet on Vacation is a breezy adaptation that boasts charming leads in Tom Blyth and Emily Bader, delivering a romantic endeavor worth staying for.
Synopsis: Free-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and routine-loving Alex (Tom Blyth) have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different [More]
Critics Consensus: Pairing Claire Foy's psychologically raw performance with lush, evocative imagery, H Is for Hawk approaches its tale of grief and acceptance with bruising realism and thoughtful candor.
Synopsis: H is for Hawk follows Helen (Claire Foy), who, after the sudden death of her father (Brendan Gleeson), loses herself [More]
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