The 90 Most Anticipated Movies of 2026 (and 10 Movies We Already Love)

If you’re interested in a killer chimpanzee B-movie slasher, then Primate is for you. The movie delivers what it promises. Ben the chimpanzee does some very terrible things on screen but it makes for quite an enjoyable experience.

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a direct sequel to last year’s 28 Years Later. And while the great Danny Boyle doesn’t return to direct, the movie is helmed by the more-than-capable Nia DaCosta and once again counts Alex Garland as its screenwriter. The real assets, though, are the movie’s leads: Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell are sensational, magnetic every minute they’re on screen amidst all sorts of post-apocalyptic chaos. Bring on part three.

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Here’s a quick pitch for The Rip: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The longtime friends team up once again for The Rip, a cop thriller in the vein of movies you’ve probably seen several times before… but done particularly well. This twisty crime story involves a police team finding a ton of money in a stash house (the titular rip), and figuring out who may or may not be corrupt. In addition to our beloved duo, the cast is shockingly stacked: Steven Yeun, Kyle Chandler, Scott Adkins, and One Battle After Another Academy Award nominee Teyana Taylor are all on board.

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SAM RAIMI FANS, ASSEMBLE! For the first time since 2009, the master of gross effects and frenetic cameras is back with an original horror story in Send Help. Rachel McAdams plays a Survivor superfan who gets stuck on an island with her dickhead boss (Dylan O’Brien), and then the antics begin. Think Cast Away meets Misery meets Drag Me to Hell. It’s great stuff.

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Part This Is Spinal Tap, part Josie and the Pussycats, and part Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Moment is Charli XCX’s movie for anyone who enjoys her music, persona, or both. A really fun movie about music, stardom, and celebrity in 2026.

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Pillion was technically released initially in 2025 (and was also included on our list of favorite movies of that year), but we didn’t want to miss an opportunity to recommend it to people once again. This unique film follows a man (Harry Melling) who engages in an unexpected BDSM relationship with a biker he meets at random (Alexander Skarsgård). The movie is quite the tonal balancing act, at times funny, intense, raunchy, and heartbreaking, but it all comes together by the end. A delightful movie, and a great showcase for both leads.

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The classic novel comes to life on the big screen once again, this time from Promising Young Woman and Saltburn director Emerald Fennell, and with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the lead roles. Fennell, an Academy Award winner for her work on Promising Young Woman, has both big fans and big detractors at this point—but her take her, while book purists haven’t been thrilled, is a big, visually stunning epic romance. Robbie and Elordi are both up to the task as well, bringing a charged energy to roles that really need it. Alison Oliver, who recently shined on HBO’s Task, is another major highlight in a supporting role. An original soundtrack from Charli XCX helps to set the anachronistic mood and feels like a real cherry on top.

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This action-thriller, based on a book by Don Winslow, looks like a very solid entry in the genre that we’re going to call “Somewhat Resembles a Michael Mann Film.” And reviews have confirmed as much—the movie has often been compared to Heat, and while its tough to compare to Mann’s 1995 masterpiece, we’ll take just about anything in that vein. Look: If someone tells you there’s gonna be a crime thriller in the vein of Heat with Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, and Barry Keoghan leading the cast, how could you not be on board?

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One of our coolest directors, Gore Verbinski, makes his grand return with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die—his first movie since 2016’s A Cure For Wellness. If you don’t know Verbinski by name, you should know several of his movies: the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, The Ring, and Rango are among the standouts. Good Luck follows Sam Rockwell as a man who claims to be from the future and fighting off a rogue artificial intelligence. While the movie takes some pretty tough and labored tangents into on-the-nose satire, Rockwell’s performance and the practical effects keep the movie afloat as a fun sci-fi romp.

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Despite the title, you don’t need to know anything else about Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie before going to see it. Sure, this story of two inept dudes in a band who just want to play music at a bar—and go through all sorts of ordeals, including time-travel, to do it—has existed before in both web series and television series form. But you can just go in and laugh and the absolute madness of the movie. Trust us—you’ll have a good time with this one if you’re into “madness that makes you laugh.” This is a long-term passion project of Matt Johnson, who was recently well known for directing the underrated BlackBerry. His brash talent is again on display here.

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We’re always in on Glen Powell, and How to Make a Killing marks his first foray into A24’s world as a leading man. The black comedy comes from Emily the Criminal director John Patton Ford and follows Powell as a man who decides to take out a few members of his family in order to increase his chance at making a whole bunch of money via inheritance. The supporting cast joining Powell isn’t too shabby either: Margaret Qualley, Jessica Henwick, Ed Harris, and Topher Grace are all along for the fun.

Psycho Killer is a serial killer movie from Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker. We’re loyal enough to the classics for that to be enough to pique our interest on its own.

The latest film in the long-running Scream franchise marks the grand return of series stalwart Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, along with several new cast members who could all be our latest evil Ghostface killer. It’s unfortunate that previous stars Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega departed the series, as their story in Scream and Scream VI was strong and seemed unfinished. But a Scream movie is a Scream movie, so we’ll check it out and see how things go for ourselves.

Remember when Norbit came out in 2007, and was so bad that people seemed to think it cost Eddie Murphy his Dreamgirls Oscar by proxy (Alan Arkin ended up winning in that category for Little Miss Sunshine)? That doesn’t seem likely to happen for Jessie Buckley, who will see The Bride! come out in theaters a little more than a week before she’s likely to take home the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Hamnet. The Bride! comes from director Maggie Gyllenhaal, and looks like a Joker and Harley Quinn style take on the Frankenstein story that everyone should be familiar with by now. With Christian Bale as The Monster and Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jake Gyllenhaal among others in the cast, The Bride! seems likely to be pretty damn cool.

Could this be A24’s next huge horror hit? Undertone follows a supernatural podcaster who gets sent some particularly spooky recordings. A simple premise like that sometimes makes for the best-executed horror movies.

When The Martian came out in 2015 it was a major sensation—and Project Hail Mary could run that playbook back. Based on the novel by Andy Weir (who also wrote The Martian), Project Hail Mary is a story of space exploration and a regular guy (played by Ryan Gosling) who gets involved. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (who are responsible for the Spider-Verse movies and directed 21 Jump Street) are behind the camera for this one. It could be the year’s first really big hit.

Forbidden Fruits follows a secret coven of witches operating in a shopping mall. Like, guys, some premises you just have to accept for how good they are and see them out.

2018’s Ready or Not was one of the most fun horror films of the last decade, and now eight years later we get to see Samara Weaving’s lead sucked back into the same twisted, bloody, violent games. The supporting cast—including David Cronenberg (!!!), Elijah Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and The Pitt‘s Shawn Hatosy—is fantastic. The movie should be a blast.

Whitney Springs finds Kendrick Lamar in a musical comedy adventure that he made together with the creators of South Park. Again, we kind of just have to see this one out, and we imagine you’re on board as well.