Tuesday, May 12, 2026

2026 Movie List - The Top 65 of the Year So Far

THE STANDOUTS (5) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.

I Swear ***1/2
#Skyking ***1/2
Project Hail Mary ***
Send Help ***
Untold: Chess Mates ***

THE GOOD (16) - These represent quality filmmaking all around.

Primate ***
Pizza Movie ***
Roommates ***
Wuthering Heights ***
Marty, Life Is Short ***
The Bluff ***
Wardriver ***
Apex ***
Hoppers ***
We Bury the Dead ***
The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson ***
Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill ***
Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom ***
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not ***
Take a Banana For the Ride **1/2
Miracle: The Boys of '80 **1/2

THE GOOD... BUT SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTERS (16) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence the name of this section.

The Drama ***
Crime 101 ***
Michael **1/2
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie **1/2
Wasteman **1/2
Tuner **1/2
In Cold Light **1/2
Blue Film **1/2
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice **1/2
Fuze **1/2
Lorne **1/2
Dracula **1/2
Tow **1/2
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart **1/2
The Investigation of Lucy Letby **1/2
Untold: Jail Blazers **1/2

THE GUILTY PLEASURES (7) - These are movies that I shouldn't like but do, for one reason or another. I only feel ashamed because the Internet tells me I'm supposed to.

War Machine ***
Normal **1/2
The Wrecking Crew **1/2
Faces of Death **
Night Patrol **
Whistle **
Thrash **

THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (11) - Chalk it up to expectations, but these movies just didn't cut it for me.

Heel **1/2
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die **
Our Hero, Balthazar **
Psycho Killer **
How to Make a Killing **
Balls Up **
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple *1/2
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass *1/2
Greenland 2: Migration *1/2
Josephine *1/2
The School Duel *1/2

THE BAD (10) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.

The Rip *1/2
The Bride! *1/2
Mercy *1/2
They Will Kill You *
The Strangers: Chapter 3 *
Hokum *
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come 1/2*
Outcome 1/2*
Scream 7 (zero stars)
Undertone (zero stars)

IN PROGRESS (3) - I started watching these, but I never quite finished. Make of that what you will, but not always. Sometimes, it's just a matter of viewing circumstances.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 (45 minutes)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (35 minutes)
The Wizard of the Kremlin (20 minutes)

EMBARGOED (2) - I can't talk about these movies just yet. It's part of the deal.

Carolina Caroline
The Crash

OOPS, I MISSED (78): All You Need Is Kill, Animal Farm, Ballistic, Beast, Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft, The Birthday Party, Blue Heron, Brothers Under Fire, Bulls, Busboys, The Christophers, Clika, Cold Storage, Couples Weekend, Deep Water, Desert Warrior, Dolly, Driver's Ed, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Erupjca, Exit 8, Fantasy Life, Forbidden Fruits, Forgotten Island, Frankie: Maniac Woman, GOAT, Hamlet, H Is for Hawk, Hive, Hungry, I Can Only Imagine 2, In the Blink of an Eye, Iron Lung, Islands, Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Jimpa, Magellan, Magic Hour, Marc by Sofia, Masters of the Universe, Melania, Mile End Kicks, Mimics, The Moment, Mortal Kombat II, Moses the Black, Mother Mary, The Mummy, Neglected, Newborn, Obex, Omaha, One Spoon of Chocolate, Over Your Dead Body, People We Meet on Vacation, Peter Asher: Everywhere Man, The Pout-Pout Fish, Pressure, Pretty Lethal, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, Redux Redux, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Reminders of Him, Return to Silent Hill, Ricky, Rose of Nevada, The Sheep Detectives, Shelter, Solo Mio, Stop! That! Train!, Swapped, This Is Not a Test, Untitled Home Invasion Romance, Voicemails for Isabelle, Wingman, The Yeti, You, Me & Tuscany, Youngblood

COMING SOON (23): Backrooms, The Breadwinner, The Death of Robin Hood, Disclosure Day, The Furious, I Love Boosters, In the Grey, The Invite, Is God Is, Jackass: Best and Last, Ladies First, Leviticus, Little Brother, Maddie's Secret, Miss You Love You, Obsession, Office Romance, Passenger, Power Ballad, Scary Movie, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, Supergirl, Toy Story 5

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