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The End of Oak Street tries to channel Spielberg

David Robert Mitchell (It Follows, Under Silver Lake) wrote and directed this sci-fi dinosaur thriller about the Platt family—aspiring novelist Denise (Anne Hathaway), husband Greg (Ewan McGregor), and children Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery)—who after some kind of cosmic event discovers their suburban neighborhood has been transplanted to a strange and dangerous place. […]

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A Toxic Love Story is twisted, stranger-than-fiction true crime

A Toxic Love StoryWhat’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Where’s it showing? NetflixĀ  Michelle Hadley was facing the possibility of decades in prison for the violent and malicious acts she was accused of by her ex, Ian, and his wife, Angela. Angela began receiving threatening emails from an account called ā€œLilithistruth,ā€ a nod to the […]

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One Night Only offers a charming romcom within a ridiculous premise

Will Gluck (Easy A, Friends with Benefits, Anyone But You) directs Travis Braun’s rom-com script set in a dystopian future America where premarital sex is outlawed under a ā€œchastity mandateā€ except for one night a year. Two New Yorkers searching for love—Owen (Callum Turner), a pizza shop owner, and Allie (Monica Barbaro), a commercial jingles […]

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The Last House is claustrophobic survivalist horror story

The Last HouseWhat’s it rated? PG-13 When? 2026 Where’s it showing? NetflixĀ  Weird rain has come to attack both the suburban neighborhood and apparently the entire world that Ann (Greta Lee) and Jason’s (Wagner Moura) family lives in. Kids Ruth (Riley Chung) and Graham (Noah Alexander Snosnowski) must navigate their new world as well, and […]

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Voicemails for Isabelle is a tearjerking rom com about grief and healing

Voicemails for IsabelleWhat’s it rated? TV-14 When? 2026 Where’s it showing? NetflixĀ  Jill (Zoey Deutch) is a young woman navigating her life and career as a baker in San Francisco and coping with the death of her younger sister, Isabelle (Ciaro Bravo), from cystic fibrosis. With intense pressure from her boss, Chef Bastien (Nick Offerman), […]

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Old-school sword-and-sandal epic, The Odyssey, reflects the current zeitgeist

Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, Batman Begins) wrote and directed this action fantasy based on Homer’s epic poem about Odysseus (Matt Damon), king of Ithaca, who after the Trojan War faces a dangerous voyage home to reunite with his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway). During the perilous journey, he encounters creatures such as the cyclops […]

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Big Mistakes follows siblings blackmailed into organized crime

Big MistakesWhat’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Where’s it showing? NetflixĀ  Nicky (Dan Levy) is a put-upon pastor whose mother, Linda (Laurie Metcalf); troublemaking sister, Morgan (Taylor Ortega); and suck-up sister, Natalie (Abby Quinn), keep him irritatingly busy alongside his congregation—a congregation happy to have a gay pastor as long as he is ā€œnon-practicing.ā€  Morgan’s […]

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I Will Find You is a red-herring-filled Harlan Coben-based mystery

Created by Robert Hull based on the 2023 Harlan Coben novel of the same name, this crime drama follows David Burroughs (Sam Worthington), wrongly imprisoned for his son Matthew’s (Jasper Rainn Larence) murder. After five years of a life sentence, David learns from his ex-wife’s sister, Rachel (Britt Lower), that Matthew (now played by Ashton […]

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