Eight crime movies that roll credits before bedtime, from Bob Odenkirk's midlife crisis to a jury room with zero crime in it.

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Eight elite dramas that wrap before bedtime, ranked, and #1 is barely a drama at all. Fight me in the comments.

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Eight mysteries with big movie.guru scores and a fraction of the votes the hits get. Clear your Sunday. Number one will start an argument.

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Eight war movies with elite movie.guru scores and a fraction of the IMDb votes. Das Boot has fewer votes than Fury. Fix that this week.

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Helena Bonham Carter's bottom 8 by movie.guru score includes Fight Club, two Harry Potters, and a lot of Tim Burton.

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The top 8 horror movies of the 2020s by movie.guru score, from a Predator prequel to a #1 people still say isn't horror.

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1999's eight biggest worldwide hits, checked against their scores. The champ made a billion and still finished dead last on quality.

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2001's eight biggest worldwide hits next to their movie.guru scores. Half of them are Poor or Below Average. Money is not taste.

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2021's top eight worldwide grosses, ranked by money, judged by movie.guru score. Venom outgrossed Dune. We need to talk.

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Eight critic darlings that opening night crowds graded like a pop quiz. CinemaScores down to D+. We pick a side on every one.

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The Guru's Take: 6.6/10 (Solid)

“A shrink, a MiniDisc and a hypnotist walk into a murder mystery.”

Dr. Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster) is an American psychiatrist who sees patients in her Paris home and records every session on MiniDisc. Then a longtime patient, Paula (Virginie Efira), dies, and Paula's husband Simon (Mathieu Amalric) orders Lilian out of the shiva. Meanwhile Lilian keeps crying for no reason she can name, and her ex-husband Gabriel (Daniel Auteuil), an eye doctor, says her eyes are fine. Nothing about Paula's death sits right with her, so she starts digging like a detective who happens to own a couch. Rebecca Zlotowski directs, in French. One hundred three minutes, one very nosy shrink.

Crime, Drama & Mystery • 2025 • Rated R • 107 min • Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski

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The Guru's Take: 4.8/10 (Below Average)

“Every box on the one-last-fight card, checked.”

Patton James (Daniel MacPherson) used to be an MMA legend. These days he works as a commercial fisherman and the fight life is behind him. Then his brother ends up in danger, and Patton gets pulled right back into the cage. He reunites with his old coach Sammy (Russell Crowe) and commits to one final bout in ONE Championship, against the reigning champ Xavier Grau (Bren Foster). Tyler Atkins directs, Crowe co-wrote the script, and a key scene was shot at a real ONE event in Bangkok. One hundred thirteen minutes, gloves back on.

Action, Drama & Sport • 2026 • Rated R • 114 min • Dir. Tyler Atkins

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The Guru's Take: 6.3/10 (Solid)

“The zombies learn faster than the screenplay does.”

Kwon Se-jeong (Jun Ji-hyun) is a biotech professor who lost her job for refusing to let injustice slide, so when her ex-husband (Go Soo) lines up an invite to a company showcase in a big office tower, she shows. The star of the demo: a slime mold that helps cells regenerate. Security guard Choi Hyun-seok (Ji Chang-wook) is on shift, and his sister Hyun-hee (Kim Shin-rok) stopped by for lunch. Problem: a scientist with a grudge (Koo Kyo-hwan) already warned the cops he was coming. Then an outbreak hits and the tower locks down. Yeon Sang-ho, the Train to Busan guy, directs. One hundred twenty-three minutes, zero ways out.

Action, Adventure & Crime • 2026 • Rated R • 123 min • Dir. Yeon Sang-ho

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The Guru's Take: 8.2/10 (Great)

“Its sincerity beats its syrup.”

In Shantou, Iap Sogriu (Wu Shaoqing) has spent decades believing her husband, Den Bhagseng (Wang Yantong), fled to Southeast Asia to dodge conscription during the Civil War, mailed home one last letter, and quietly abandoned the family. The family gossip says he remarried, got rich in Thailand and never looked back. Her grandson Hiou-ui (Zheng Runqi), drowning in debt, heads to Thailand to find this supposedly loaded grandfather, and the trail runs through a stack of very old letters. Lan Hongchun directs, mostly in Teochew. One hundred eighteen minutes, tissues mandatory.

Drama & Family • 2026 • Rated PG-13 • 119 min • Dir. Lan Hongchun

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The Guru's Take: 6.4/10 (Solid)

“The Wizard of Oz, but Dorothy is a hairdresser hunting Jon Hamm.”

Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) cuts hair in small-town Kansas and is two weeks out from marrying her fiancé Tom (Michael Cassidy). They make a jokey deal: each gets one celebrity crush, no hard feelings. Gail picks Jon Hamm. Tom's pick gets a little too real, so Gail bolts to a hairdressing convention in Los Angeles with her pal Otto (Miles Gutierrez-Riley). There she grabs the wrong briefcase, which belongs to a criminal named Ludovica (Sabrina Impacciatore), and a psychic convinces her that tracking down Hamm, playing himself, is the only way to save her engagement. David Wain directs. Ninety-four minutes, one very lost briefcase.

Comedy • 2026 • Rated R • 94 min • Dir. David Wain

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The Guru's Take: 5.2/10 (Average)

“Suriya walks into court as a deity in disguise and owns the room.”

Sukumaran (Indrans) and his daughter Binu (Anagha Maya Ravi) are taking the train from Kerala to Chennai with the gold that will pay for her liver transplant, and thieves snatch the bag. The police recover part of it, but only a court can release it, and that court runs on the whims of Baby Kannan (RJ Balaji), a crooked advocate who stalls cases for cash. Out of options, Sukumaran prays to Vettai Karuppu, guardian deity of the Seven Wells. The deity (Suriya) answers by walking into court as a brand-new lawyer named Saravanan, where he meets advocate Preethi (Trisha). Balaji also directs. One hundred fifty-two minutes, court is in session.

Action, Comedy & Drama • 2026 • Not Rated • 150 min • Dir. RJ Balaji

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The Guru's Take: 7.2/10 (Above Average)

“A food-video satire with a sincere, aching heart.”

Maddie Ralph (John Early) washes dishes at Gourmaybe, an LA test kitchen churning out short food clips, and dreams of cheffing. One night her husband Jake (Eric Rahill) films her making one of her vegetarian recipes, posts it, and it blows up overnight. Her boss Zach (Conner O'Malley) moves her in front of the camera, rival chef Emily (Claudia O'Doherty) gets frosty, pal Deena (Kate Berlant) cheers, and producers from a hit kitchen drama called The Boar come calling. The fame also stirs up old insecurities, and Maddie starts keeping something from everyone. Early writes and directs. One hundred one minutes, served with satire.

Comedy & Drama • 2025 • Not Rated • 100 min • Dir. John Early

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The Guru's Take: 8.0/10 (Great)

“Partition, dementia and a promise that waited a lifetime.”

Ishar Singh Grewal (Naseeruddin Shah), called Keenu, is 95, frail after a stroke and living with dementia, yet he keeps murmuring about going back to his family home in Sargodha, now part of Pakistan. His grandson Nirvair (Diljit Dosanjh) flies in from London to care for him and starts piecing together what the old man is trying to say. The film steps back 78 years to young Ishar (Vedang Raina), a college student who loves jazz and cricket, goes shy around young women, and falls for Afsana, called Jiya (Sharvari), as Partition draws near. Imtiaz Ali directs. One hundred sixty-seven minutes, a whole century of heart.

Comedy, Drama & History • 2026 • Not Rated • 167 min • Dir. Imtiaz Ali

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The Guru's Take: 6.3/10 (Solid)

“Three goofballs, one fake gig and an ice cream truck to LA.”

It's winter break in Kansas City, and best friends Tommy (Mason Thames) and Fred (Kylr Coffman) live for two things: Green Day and their own band, the Analog Dogs, with cautious drummer Chad (Ryan Foust) behind the kit. Then Keith (Ignacio Diaz-Silverio), the best friend of Tommy's big brother Wayne (Keen Ruffalo), tells them the Analog Dogs have been picked to open for Green Day on New Year's Eve in Los Angeles. Chad smells something off. Tommy and Fred do not, so they take Wayne's car without asking, even though Tommy has no license, and hit the road. Lee Kirk writes and directs. One hundred seven minutes, all power chords.

Comedy, Drama & Music • 2025 • Rated R • 107 min • Dir. Lee Kirk

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The Guru's Take: 5.4/10 (Average)

“Same crew, bigger rally, and a scheme behind the scenes.”

The last Bayanbulak rally is done, and Zhang Chi (Shen Teng) and the crew are back to regular life, but the itch to race never left. Enter Bai Qiang (Sha Yi), boss of the Chinese team, with a pitch for Zhang Chi and his buddy Sun Yuqiang (Yin Zheng): build a national squad for the Muchen 100 Rally, a race packed with teams from across Asia. Hotshot Lin Zhendong (Huang Jingyu) and other top drivers sign on, and the road looks smooth. It is not. Somebody is scheming behind the scenes. Han Han writes and directs part three. One hundred twenty-five minutes, foot all the way down.

Comedy & Sport • 2026 • Not Rated • 126 min • Dir. Han Han

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The Guru's Take: 2.9/10 (Bad)

“Milla Jovovich, ferocious. Everything else, filler.”

Nikki Halsted (Milla Jovovich) left her life as a soldier behind so she could raise her daughter Chloe (Isabel Myers) in peace. The peace does not last. Nikki wakes up in an abandoned factory, learns Chloe has been kidnapped, and starts tearing through the criminal underworld to find her, with the police and the military both on her tail. Matthew Modine turns up as Colonel Joseph Lavelle. Adrian Grünberg directs this race-against-the-clock thriller. Ninety-two minutes, one very determined mom.

Action, Crime & Drama • 2025 • Rated R • 91 min • Dir. Adrian Grünberg

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The Guru's Take: 5.0/10 (Average)

“The stakes stayed home while Rimuru went to the beach.”

Deep in the underwater Kingdom of Kaien, a priestess named Yura (Saori Ōnishi) runs off with the Dragon's Fang, a magic flute that can control a giant water dragon. Up top, Rimuru Tempest (Miho Okasaki), demon lord and the most laid-back slime alive, takes the crew on a vacation to a private island resort, courtesy of the Celestial Emperor Elmesia. Yura turns up on that island, teams up with the hobgoblin Gobta (Asuna Tomari), and fights off the men sent to drag the flute back. Somebody in Kaien wants that dragon awake. Yasuhito Kikuchi directs. One hundred five minutes, no lifeguard on duty.

Adventure, Animation & Fantasy • 2026 • Rated PG-13 • 105 min • Dir. Yasuhito Kikuchi

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The Guru's Take: 6.8/10 (Solid)

“A nervous dad-to-be asks AI's biggest names if his kid will be OK.”

Filmmaker Daniel Roher has a baby on the way and one giant question: what kind of world is this kid inheriting now that artificial intelligence is everywhere? So he goes and asks. The film tracks his crash course through the promise and the panic around AI, with interviews from people building it, people warning about it and people studying it, including Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, Yoshua Bengio, Timnit Gebru and Yuval Noah Harari. Roher co-directs with Charlie Tyrell, and Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang produce. The mood he lands on: apocaloptimism. One hundred four minutes, one nervous new dad.

Animation & Documentary • 2026 • Rated PG-13 • 104 min • Dir. Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell

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The Guru's Take: 3.0/10 (Poor)

“$25 million in a hotel wall, and 141 minutes to dig it out.”

Tucker (Zachary Levi) reconnects with his old agency mentor Larry (Liam Neeson), whose memory is failing and who keeps letting classified details from his overseas years slip. One slip is enormous: during the embassy crisis of 1981, Larry stashed $25 million behind the wall of a Tehran hotel. Tucker sees a payday, pulls his old squad back together and plans a rogue, very unofficial trip into Iran to grab it. Getting in is one thing. Getting the cash out is another. Guy Moshe directs, from an idea by a former CIA officer. One hundred forty-one minutes, cash in the walls.

Action & Thriller • 2026 • Rated R • 141 min • Dir. Guy Moshe

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The Guru's Take: 7.6/10 (Above Average)

“Anime horse girls with a better rivalry than most boxing movies.”

Jungle Pocket (Yuri Fujimoto) is a rowdy racer who watches Fuji Kiseki (Eriko Matsui) win a Twinkle Series race and decides on the spot that she wants in. She enrolls at Tracen Academy, joins Fuji Kiseki's team under trainer Tanabe (Kenichi Ogata), and starts racking up early wins. Then comes her first big stage, the Hopeful Stakes, where she runs into the eccentric Agnes Tachyon (Sumire Uesaka). A rivalry is born. The racers are anthropomorphic horse girls, loosely based on the real 2001 Japanese racing season. Ken Yamamoto directs. One hundred eight minutes, full gallop.

Animation, Comedy & Drama • 2024 • Not Rated • 107 min • Dir. Ken Yamamoto

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The Guru's Take: 4.6/10 (Below Average)

“Final Destination, now with a detention slip.”

Chrys Willet (Dafne Keen) transfers to a new high school and gets the locker of a basketball star who died months earlier in a way nobody can explain. Inside: a skull-shaped whistle. A clash with Dean (Jhaleil Swaby) lands her in detention with Mr. Craven (Nick Frost), her cousin Rel (Sky Yang), Dean's girlfriend Grace (Ali Skovbye) and brainy Ellie (Sophie Nélisse). The whistle turns out to be an Aztec death whistle, and its sound sends each listener's own future death after them. Corin Hardy directs. One hundred minutes, do not blow the whistle.

Horror • 2025 • Rated R • 100 min • Dir. Corin Hardy

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The Guru's Take: 4.1/10 (Below Average)

“Time travel, the Qin throne, and a villain made of cardboard.”

Back in 1999, Hong Kong cop Hong Siu-lung (Louis Koo) rode a time machine into the Warring States period and never came home. Ken (Michael Miu), the guy who actually invented the machine, took the blame and spent more than two decades locked up. Now it's 2025, and Ken wants payback on a historic scale. He rounds up his daughter Galie (Bai Baihe), his brother-in-law Phil (Timmy Hung) and some mercenaries, fires the machine back up, and heads two thousand years into the past to take the Qin throne for himself. Ng Yuen-fai and Jack Lai direct. One hundred seven minutes, zero respect for the timeline.

Action, Adventure & Comedy • 2025 • Not Rated • 107 min • Dir. Ng Yuen-fai, Jack Lai

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The Guru's Take: 7.7/10 (Above Average)

“Five plots, one desert, and sword fights that fix everything.”

The late Sui dynasty, out where the desert swallows the roads. Dao Ma (Wu Jing) is a bounty hunter traveling with his young nephew, Xiao Qi, and he has already said no to a job offer from the powerful Chang Guiren (Jet Li). One bad night at an inn later, Dao Ma is the most wanted man in the land. Then Lao Mo (Tony Leung Ka-fai), chief of Mojia Village, asks him for something harder: get the revolutionary Zhishilang (Sun Yizhou) to safety before the imperial checkpoints close. Ayuya (Chen Lijun) insists on coming along. Yuen Woo-ping directs. One hundred twenty-six minutes, a whole desert of trouble.

Action, Adventure & Drama • 2026 • Rated R • 126 min • Dir. Yuen Woo-ping

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The Guru's Take: 3.2/10 (Poor)

“Old dog, new superpowers, way too many plots.”

Danny (Dawson Littman) got a golden retriever puppy named Charlie for his birthday, and years later Charlie (Owen Wilson) is a sleepy senior dog. Then aliens grab Danny, Charlie and Puddy (Ruairi MacDonald), the big Maine Coon from next door, as a potential pet for their prince. The prince is not impressed, the Alien Queen (Rhona Rees) sends everyone home, and Charlie lands back on Earth young again, superpowered and able to talk. Puddy comes back upgraded too, which is a lot for one neighborhood. Director Shea Wageman keeps it bouncy. Ninety-five minutes, one very good boy.

Animation, Comedy & Family • 2025 • Rated PG • 95 min • Dir. Shea Wageman

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The Guru's Take: 5.8/10 (Average)

“Space fungus versus two night guards and Liam Neeson.”

Back in 1979, a piece of the falling Skylab station lands in Western Australia, carrying something that came back from space different. Years later, Travis Meacham (Joe Keery), known as Teacake, and Naomi Williams (Georgina Campbell) work the night shift at a sleepy self-storage place in Kansas, and an alarm starts beeping from somewhere it shouldn't. Under the building sits a sealed vault, and it's getting warmer. Former bioterror operative Robert Quinn (Liam Neeson) gets pulled back in and heads their way. Jonny Campbell directs from David Koepp's script. Ninety-nine minutes, do not touch the mushrooms.

Comedy, Horror & Sci-Fi • 2026 • Rated R • 99 min • Dir. Jonny Campbell

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The Guru's Take: 6.0/10 (Solid)

“Georgekutty made a movie about his secret. Bold.”

Five years after the last round, Georgekutty (Mohanlal) has done something bold: he made his own story into a hit movie, and now he just wants a normal life with his wife Rani (Meena) and daughters Anju (Ansiba Hassan) and Anu (Esther Anil). Normal is not on the menu. A pair of journalists start asking whether the film is secretly based on real events, and every marriage proposal for Anju falls apart thanks to mystery phone calls. Jeethu Joseph writes and directs again. One hundred sixty minutes, and Georgekutty is still three steps ahead, probably.

Crime, Drama & Family • 2026 • Not Rated • 157 min • Dir. Jeethu Joseph

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The Guru's Take: 6.6/10 (Solid)

“One missing digit and a whole campus full of Emilys.”

Owen Brompton (Spike Fearn) runs sound at a student union bar in Manchester and meets a girl who gives him exactly two things: the name Emily and a phone number missing a digit. Across campus, Emily Raine (Angourie Rice), an American psychology student, needs a standout thesis to keep her visa, and her theory is that love is basically a kind of madness. Owen walks into her class asking around for his Emily. She sees the perfect test subject. Alicia MacDonald directs. One hundred ten minutes, one missing digit, a very long list of Emilys.

Comedy & Romance • 2026 • Rated PG-13 • 110 min • Dir. Alicia MacDonald

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The Guru's Take: 6.3/10 (Solid)

“A ticking bomb, a bank tunnel, and robbers named X, Y and Z.”

A suspected World War Two bomb turns up on a busy construction site in Paddington, and London does what London does: cordons, evacuations, and one very calm army officer. Major Will Tranter (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his bomb disposal team find a running timer and start racing it. Nearby, Giorgos Karalis (Theo James) and his crew pick that exact moment to tunnel into a bank on Edgware Road. Chief Superintendent Zuzana Greenfield (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) has her hands full. David Mackenzie directs. Ninety-six minutes, two ticking clocks, one terrible day for traffic.

Action, Crime & Thriller • 2025 • Rated R • 98 min • Dir. David Mackenzie

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The Guru's Take: 6.0/10 (Solid)

“Johnny Knoxville and Margaret Cho, detectives. Yes, really.”

Gregg Araki is back with a provocative art-world story set in Los Angeles. Elliot Bell (Cooper Hoffman) is a young guy who lands a job as the assistant to Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), a famous contemporary artist who never met a boundary she didn't want to push. Working in her studio pulls him into a scene that's glossy, strange and very full of itself, and the satire lands on all of it. Chase Sui Wonders, Charli XCX and Daveed Diggs fill out the circle, and somehow Johnny Knoxville and Margaret Cho show up as detectives. Ninety minutes, high gloss, sharp elbows.

Comedy & Romance • 2026 • Rated R • 90 min • Dir. Gregg Araki

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The Guru's Take: 7.2/10 (Above Average)

“One long night, told five ways, every one of them human.”

Writer and director Brandt Andersen tells one long, uncertain night through five people whose lives cross while nobody knows who will make it through. The film moves in five overlapping chapters, each built around one role: a doctor, a soldier, a smuggler, a poet, a captain. The same moments come back from new angles. The people at its heart include Amira (Yasmine Al Massri), Marwan (Omar Sy), Mustafa (Yahya Mahayni), Stavros (Constantine Markoulakis) and Dr. Kroft (Jason Beghe). It grew out of Andersen's short film Refugee and was shot in Jordan, Turkey and Chicago. One hundred three minutes, five strangers, one night.

Drama • 2024 • Rated PG-13 • 103 min • Dir. Brandt Andersen

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The Guru's Take: 5.0/10 (Average)

“One wounded captain, one radio called Lassie, a long walk home.”

December 1944, the Battle of the Bulge. Captain John Castle (Scott Eastwood) leads a squad of combat engineers ordered to block a key road and slow down an SS panzer division pushing toward American fuel depots. The mission goes wrong fast, and Castle ends up alone and wounded in the frozen Ardennes, with a field radio called Lassie and a long way to go before he reaches friendly lines at Elsenborn. Rod Lurie directs, sharing writing credit with Marc Frydman. One hundred four minutes, one radio, a lot of snow.

Action, Drama & Thriller • 2026 • Rated R • 103 min • Dir. Rod Davis Lurie

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The Guru's Take: 6.8/10 (Solid)

“The new daughter-in-law is way too good in a crisis.”

It's the 1990s, and Swarna (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) marries into a big traditional household as the wife of Anirudh (Diganth Manchale), a doctor. All she wants is a peaceful life, a happy home and in-laws who actually like her, so she works hard to win the whole family over. Still, Swarna handles trouble a little too smoothly and stays a little too cool under pressure, and her past might not be as quiet as her present. Director B. V. Nandini Reddy mixes family drama, comedy and action. One hundred fifty-four minutes, one daughter-in-law with a secret.

Action, Drama & Family • 2026 • Not Rated • 154 min • Dir. B. V. Nandini Reddy

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The Guru's Take: 8.0/10 (Great)

“Two Gallaghers, one interview, and zero answers about the feud.”

Directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern follow Oasis through the 2025 reunion tour, from rehearsal rooms to backstage hallways to the stage itself. Liam and Noel Gallagher sit down together for their first joint interview in more than fifteen years, which is a sentence nobody thought they'd ever read. The film also rewinds to the 1990s Britpop explosion, the split, and the famously stormy brotherhood, then asks what getting back together means for the band and the fans who kept waiting. Steven Knight wrote it. One hundred twenty-three minutes, two brothers, zero excuses left.

Documentary & Music • 2026 • Rated R • 123 min • Dir. Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern

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The Guru's Take: 8.4/10 (Great)

“A forgotten painter, a fake assistant and a pile of Cameos.”

Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) used to be a big-deal London painter. Now he's old, eccentric and mostly forgotten, sitting on a third series of his famous Christophers paintings that he never got around to finishing. His grown kids Barnaby (James Corden) and Sallie (Jessica Gunning) have a plan: hire Lori Butler (Michaela Coel), a talented artist who stopped showing her work, to pose as Dad's assistant and quietly complete the canvases so they can sell them once he's gone. Steven Soderbergh directs from Ed Solomon's script. One hundred minutes, two artists, one extremely awkward studio.

Comedy & Drama • 2025 • Rated R • 100 min • Dir. Steven Soderbergh

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The Guru's Take: 4.4/10 (Below Average)

“Huge set, ferocious star, story missing in action.”

Secunderabad, the 1980s. The Savaari, a tribe packed into a crowded slum, can't vote, can't claim citizenship, and live under the thumb of a greedy landlord, Shikanja Malik (Mohan Babu). Samakka (Sonali Kulkarni) is the one woman who keeps pushing back. Then her son Jadal (Nani) walks out of prison, watches his mom stand up to everybody, and gets dragged into the fight whether he wants the job or not. Director Srikanth Odela built the neighborhood as a giant physical set instead of leaning on CGI. One hundred seventy-three minutes, one mother you do not argue with.

Action, Adventure & Drama • 2026 • Rated Not rated yet • 179 min • Dir. Srikanth Odela

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The Guru's Take: 2.7/10 (Bad)

“Three hours of slow-motion swagger in search of a story.”

Goa, back when it was under Portuguese rule. Raya (Yash) grows up fast, raised by his fierce older sister Ganga (Nayanthara), and the two of them end up working for the crime boss Salvador Almeida (Darrell D'Silva). Raya climbs the ranks quickly, falls for Salvador's daughter Rebecca (Tara Sutaria), and makes enemies just by being good at the job, starting with Salvador's partner Elizabeth (Huma Qureshi) and her brother Tony (Akshay Oberoi). Geetu Mohandas directs a gangster saga built on enormous period sets. One hundred ninety-four minutes, every one of them dressed for the 1940s.

Action, Crime & Drama • 2026 • Not Rated • 192 min • Dir. Geetu Mohandas

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The Guru's Take: 6.7/10 (Solid)

“He wins Olympic gold, then brings Mom a surprise grandson.”

Sanjay Vishwanath (Suriya) is a rich industrialist who also shoots rifles at Olympic level, and the film opens with him going for gold at Paris 2024. Back home, his mother Nirmala (Radikaa Sarathkumar) has one complaint: no wife, no grandkids, end of the family line. So Sanjay returns from one of his San Francisco trips holding a newborn son, Abhay, born through surrogacy. Mom needs a minute. Then a health scare sends Sanjay looking for the surrogate, Maddy (Mamitha Baiju), a medical student way younger than he expected. Venky Atluri directs. One hundred sixty-one minutes, one very surprised grandma.

Drama, Family & Romance • 2026 • Not Rated • 161 min • Dir. Venky Atluri

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The Guru's Take: 3.8/10 (Poor)

“A haunted mansion party that forgets when to go home.”

Arjun Acharya (Akshay Kumar) and his sister Meera (Mithila Palkar) inherit their grandfather's mansion, and Arjun wants it fixed up in time for Meera's wedding. The caretaker, Shantaram (Asrani), has warnings. So does local legend: the demon Vadhusur, whose own wedding day ended badly, is said to haunt the Acharya mansion and go after new brides. On the drive out, Arjun pulls a writer named Priya (Wamiqa Gabbi) from a crash while she searches for her missing sister. Priyadarshan directs, with Paresh Rawal and Tabu along for the ride. One hundred sixty-four minutes, lights on please.

Comedy, Fantasy & Horror • 2026 • Not Rated • 173 min • Dir. Priyadarshan

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The Guru's Take: 2.2/10 (Bad)

“A plan this simple, and the movie still loses the order.”

Markie Montgomery (David Spade) and Steef Barn (Theo Von) go way back, and not in a good way: years ago, Markie accidentally hit teenage Steef with his car. Now both of them are broke and stuck working for a septic company. When Markie's marriage proposal to his girlfriend Pam (Charlotte McKinney) flops and she leaves with a waiter, he cooks up a plan. They'll become busboys at a restaurant, work up to waiter, and win her back. Tim Dillon plays the manager, Tim. Jonah Feingold directs. Ninety-seven minutes, refills included.

Comedy • 2026 • Rated R • 97 min • Dir. Jonah Feingold

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The Guru's Take: 7.0/10 (Above Average)

“Bill Skarsgård is electric. The movie likes his guy a bit too much.”

Indianapolis, February 1977. Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) shows up for a meeting with mortgage broker M.L. Hall (Al Pacino), but Hall's son Richard (Dacre Montgomery) takes it instead. Tony is convinced the Halls cheated him on a land deal, so he takes Richard hostage, with a shotgun wired to him so it fires if anyone makes a move. He commandeers a police car and makes Richard drive to his apartment, cops and reporters trailing behind. Local radio host Fred Temple (Colman Domingo) ends up in the middle. Gus Van Sant directs this true story. One hundred six minutes, nobody breathes.

Biography, Crime & Drama • 2025 • Rated R • 105 min • Dir. Gus Van Sant

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The Guru's Take: 5.4/10 (Average)

“It scolds you for watching, then begs you to keep watching.”

Margot Romero (Barbie Ferreira) moderates content for Kino, a TikTok-style video app, which means she clears out the worst posts so nobody else has to see them. Then her queue starts serving up clips that look like real killings. She tells herself they're staged, until the next one makes that hard to believe. She asks her coworkers to take a closer look. Nobody does. Jermaine Fowler plays her boss Josh, Charli XCX is coworker Gabby, and Aaron Holliday is roommate Ryan. So Margot starts digging on her own. Daniel Goldhaber directs. Ninety-seven minutes, do not scroll.

Horror • 2026 • Rated R • 97 min • Dir. Daniel Goldhaber

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The Guru's Take: 5.0/10 (Average)

“Witches working retail. The return policy is brutal.”

At a Dallas mall, the saleswomen of the Free Eden clothing store, Apple (Lili Reinhart), Fig (Alexandra Shipp) and Cherry (Victoria Pedretti), can separate any shopper from thousands of dollars. They have also noticed Pumpkin (Lola Tung), the new girl at the pretzel stand. After a very strange job interview, Pumpkin stays late and finds out what the trio really is: a coven. There are rituals in the basement, a strict no-boyfriends rule, and confessions made to the spirit of Marilyn Monroe. Gabrielle Union plays their manager, Sharon. Meredith Alloway directs, adapting Lily Houghton's play. One hundred three minutes, final sale.

Comedy & Horror • 2026 • Rated R • 103 min • Dir. Meredith Alloway

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The Guru's Take: 6.9/10 (Solid)

“A devotional journey that trusts stillness over spectacle.”

Lakshminarayan Sharma (Shobhinaw Satyaa) is thirteen when his mother dies, and he walks away from his home in Akbarpur, in the Braj region. He believes only Rama can bring them back together, so he turns to Hanuman, with the Hanuman Chalisa as his guide. A temple in Rajkot tests his humility. Then come years of wandering: meditating under trees, sleeping beside rivers, living on alms and learning from ascetics. Vishal Chaturvedi writes and directs, drawing on his own spiritual memoir, in the first chapter of a planned trilogy about Neem Karoli Baba. One hundred fifty minutes, one devoted road.

Biography & Drama • 2026 • Rated Not rated yet • 150 min • Dir. Vishal Chaturvedi

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The Guru's Take: 5.3/10 (Average)

“An exorcism, but make it a dress fitting.”

Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) is a world-famous pop star three days out from a comeback show, her first since an accident on stage. A costume fitting goes sideways, so she bolts to the English countryside to find Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel), the designer who was once her closest creative partner and her ex. The two have history, and not all of it is good. Sam agrees, reluctantly, to make her one dress. Hunter Schafer plays Sam's assistant Hilda. David Lowery writes and directs. One hundred twelve minutes, one very loaded fitting.

Drama, Music & Thriller • 2026 • Rated R • 111 min • Dir. David Lowery

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The Guru's Take: 5.2/10 (Average)

“A couples retreat where both of them packed a plan.”

Dan (Jason Segel) made one feature film, and now he directs pop-up ads. His marriage to Lisa (Samara Weaving), an actress still waiting on her break, is in rough shape. So he takes her to their lakeside cabin for a getaway, with a secret plan to get rid of her for good. Small snag: Lisa has packed a plan of her own. Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis are also in the mix. Jorma Taccone directs this remake of the Norwegian comedy The Trip. One hundred seven minutes, zero couples therapy.

Action, Comedy & Thriller • 2026 • Rated R • 105 min • Dir. Jorma Taccone

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