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Every few years a big star and a prestige director team up on something that's marketed as "you have to see this for yourself," and the actual reviews turn out to be a coin flip. Digger — Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satirical black comedy starring Tom Cruise as an oil tycoon racing to prove he's humanity's savior before the disaster he caused destroys everything — is shaping up to be exactly that kind of film. Having read through the first wave of festival reactions rather than just the trailer, my take is that this isn't a movie that rewards showing up because a friend said it's "wild." It rewards showing up already knowing you're the kind of viewer who tolerates a swing-for-the-fences satire that a majority of critics are currently calling a misfire. Tom Cruise at the 53rd Saturn Awards, March 2026 — a real file photo used here as an illustration, not a still from Digger. Photo: Kevin Paul, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. The basics:...

"Charlie Harper" opened in wide release today, and the reviews that arrived overnight are split almost exactly down the middle: a 57% Tomatometer score built from 23 counted reviews as of this writing, with critics agreeing on what the film is trying to do and disagreeing hard on whether it works. That split is the actual story here — more useful to a reader deciding whether to buy a ticket tonight than a scene-by-scene account of what happens to Charlie and Harper, which this guide won't give away. Nick Robinson, who co-stars in "Charlie Harper" as the title character opposite Emilia Jones, pictured at a 2018 press interview — file photo, not a still from this film. Photo: MTV International, Wikimedia Commons , licensed under CC BY 3.0 . What "Wide Release" Means for a Company This Young "Charlie Harper" is distributed by Row K Entertainment, and its release history is short enough to summarize in one sentence: Row K was founded ...

Every awards-adjacent survival movie starring Brad Pitt gets measured against one film: The Revenant . So when the first reviews for Heart of the Beast — David Ayer's new Alaska-set drama about a wounded Special Forces veteran and his retired military dog — started landing this week, more than one critic reached for that exact comparison. Having read through the reviews and the studio's own materials, my take is that the comparison is doing the film a disservice in one direction and a favor in another: it oversells the visual and narrative ambition, but it undersells how effective the film is at something The Revenant never really tried to be, which is a genuinely tender story about a man and his dog. Alaska's White Mountains in winter — a real BLM Alaska photograph used here as an illustration of the film's wilderness setting, not a still from the movie. Photo: BLM Alaska via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. The basics: date, rating, runtime Here's what...

Colleen Hoover's second theatrical adaptation arrives in U.S. theaters on October 2, 2026 , and it is nothing like the one before it. "It Ends With Us" was a PG-13 romantic drama that leaned on Hoover's built-in readership to cross $345 million worldwide. "Verity," directed by Michael Showalter for Amazon MGM Studios, is an R-rated psychological thriller — and that single letter rating changes who this movie is actually for. Illustration, not a film still: a vintage typewriter standing in for the novel-within-a-novel premise at the center of "Verity." Photo by AVandewerdt, Wikimedia Commons , licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 . Spoiler note: this guide covers the setup that's already in the trailer and official synopsis. It does not reveal the manuscript's contents or the ending. What Verity Is About, Without the Spoilers Dakota Johnson plays Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling novelist hired by Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett) to finish the ...

Editorial illustration: the shore of Inaccessible Island. Photo by Brian Gratwicke, via Wikimedia Commons , CC BY 2.0 . The image is not a still from the film and has not been altered. Forgotten Island is scheduled to open in U.S. theaters on September 25, 2026. Universal Pictures’ official page is already listing showtimes, while the Motion Picture Association has assigned the animated film a PG rating. That gives families and animation fans enough verified information to make an early plan, but not enough to treat every plot detail circulating online as settled fact. This spoiler-conscious guide separates what the studio and ratings board currently confirm from what viewers should still verify at their local theater. It does not claim an advance viewing, and it does not turn trailer impressions into facts. The goal is simpler: help you decide whether to buy early, wait for reviews, or choose a different format once your theater posts a complete schedule. The confirmed r...

If you skipped a theatrical release this year assuming it would show up on Peacock or Disney+ within a couple of weeks, that assumption is now wrong more often than it's right. Starting in 2026, every major Hollywood studio has committed, in writing and on stage at CinemaCon, to holding new movies in theaters exclusively for a minimum of 45 days before any home release — rental, purchase, or subscription streaming. Universal is going further, and Disney is already running longer than the floor requires. The practical effect: the gap between a movie's opening weekend and the day you can watch it from your couch has roughly tripled since the pandemic-era low point. Illustration: a U.S. movie theater marquee. Photo by stu_spivack, Wikimedia Commons , licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 . Why the wait suddenly got longer At CinemaCon 2026 in April, the industry's annual theater-owner convention, Disney, Paramount (now merging with Warner Bros. under Skydance's David Ellison), Un...

Updated September 26, 2026. The re-release details below come from Marvel's own announcement of August 25, 2026 and Disney's official film page, both read that day. Counts of days are this article's arithmetic. No ticket prices appear here, because they vary by chain, format and city. A re-release asks a different question from a new film. The movie is known, it has been available at home for years, and the only thing a ticket buys that a sofa does not is the room, the format and whatever is attached to the print. So the useful review of Avengers Endgame: Encore is not whether the film is good. It is who gains something from the theatrical version, and who is being sold a night out for footage they will see anyway. Cast of The Avengers at a Comic-Con panel (2010 file photo, illustration only — not a still from Endgame or its re-release). Photo: rwoan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 . What is actually on offer, in Marvel's own words Item Published detail S...