New York City 2026 Commercial Releases
(Films seen by yours truly are in blue. Films walked out of by yours truly—always at 1/3 of the total running time—are in red. Films yours truly is currently on the fence about possibly seeing, or is definitely planning to see, or has been assigned to review in the near future, are in green. Films yours truly has sampled at least the first 10 minutes of are indicated by a + sign following the director's name.)
Week of 20 Feb
Animated Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2026 (various)Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It (Paris Barclay)
Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert (Yuen Woo Ping)
Do Deewane Seher Mein (Ravi Udyawar)
Doc Program A: Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2026 (various)
Doc Program B: Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2026 (various)
The Dreadful (Natasha Kermani)
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Baz Luhrmann)
Four Rational People (Tristan Cook)
A Gift From Heaven (Lê Thanh Sơn)
Hey Bhagawan (Gopi Atchara)
How to Make a Killing (John Patton Ford)
I Can Only Imagine 2 (Andrew Erwin & Brent Mccorkle)
The King's Warden (Jang Hang-jun)
Live-Action Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2026 (various)
Man on the Run (Morgan Neville)
Midwinter Break (Polly Findlay)
Night King (Ng Wai-lun)
Psycho Killer (Gavin Polone)
Redux Redux (Kevin McManus & Matthew McManus)
Scare Out (Zhang Yimou)
This Is Not a Test (Adam MacDonald)
Week of 13 Feb
Bendito corazón (Miguel Angel Pérez)By Design (Amanda Kramer)
Cold Storage (Jonny Campbell)
Crime 101 (Bart Layton)
Funky (Anudeep K V)
Goat (Tyree Dillihay)
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (Gore Verbinski)
Mimics (Kristoffer Polaha)
The Mortuary Assistant (Jeremiah Kipp)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
O' Romeo (Vishal Bhardwaj)
The Observance (Rob Hollocks)
The Rose: Come Back to Me (Eugene Yi)
Time Hoppers: The Silk Road (Flordeliza Dayrit)
"Wuthering Heights" (Emerald Fennell)
Week of 6 Feb
Aida: The Movie (Paco León)Buffalo Kids (Juan Jesús García Galocha & Pedro Solís García) Calle Malaga (Maryam Touzani)
Dracula (Luc Besson)
The Infinite Husk (Aaron Silverstein)
Jimpa (Sophie Hyde)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
Roads of Fire (Nathaniel Lezra)
Solo Mio (Charles Kinnane & Daniel Kinnane)
Starman (Robert Stone)
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (Renny Harlin)
Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience (Paul Dugdale)
Unexpected Family (Tai)
Vadh 2 (Jaspal Singh Sandhu)
Whistle (Corin Hardy)
Week of 30 Jan
Back to the Past (Ng Yuen Fai & Jack Lai)Busted Water Pipes (Zhou Difei)
Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir (JJ Duncan & Bruce Robertson)
Iron Lung (Mark Fischbach)
Islands (Jan-Ole Gerster)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
Mardaani 3 (Abhiraj Minawala)
Medias hermanas (Yoel Morales)
Melania (Brett Ratner)
The Moment (Aidan Zamiri)
Moses the Black (Yelena Popovic)
Natchez (Suzannah Herbert)
Paying for It (Sook-Yin Lee)+
A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto)
Send Help (Sam Raimi)
Shelter (Ric Roman Waugh)
Worldbreaker (Brad Anderson)
Week of 23 Jan
The Big Johnson (Lola Rocknrolla)Border 2 (Anurag Singh)
Clika (Michael Greene)
H Is for Hawk (Philippa Lowthorpe)
He's Watching You (Jordon Foss)
Mercy (Timur Bekmambetov)
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (David Borenstein)
A New Love in Tokyo (Banmei Takahashi) [1994]
Return to Silent Hill (Christophe Gans)
Two Sleepy People (Baron Ryan)
Week of 16 Jan
All You Need Is Kill (Ken'ichirō Akimoto)Anaganaga Oka Raju (Maari)
Behind the Scenes (Funke Akindele & Tunde Olaoye)
Call Me Mother (Jun Robles Lana)
Charlie the Wonderdog (Shea Wageman)
Deepfaking Sam Altman (Adam Bhala Lough)
The Fire Raven (Sam Quah)
Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos (Vir Das & Kavi Shastri)
Mana ShankaraVaraprasad Garu (Anil Ravipudi)
Night Patrol (Ryan Prows)
Seeds (Brittany Shyne)
Sheepdog (Steven Grayhm)
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta)
A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
Vaa Vaathiyaar (Nalan Kumarasamy)
Week of 9 Jan
All That's Left of You (Cherien Dabis)Bulls (Dan Meyer)
Escape From the Outland (Shen Ao)
Greenland Migration (Ric Roman Waugh)
Holding Liat (Brandon Kramer)
I Was a Stranger (Brandt Andersen)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
My Neighbor Adolf (Leon Prudovsky) [2022]
OBEX (Albert Birney)
Parasakthi (Sudha Kongara)
Primate (Johannes Roberts)+
The Raja Saab (Maruthi)
31 Candles (Jonah Feingold)
Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Week of 2 Jan
The Dutchman (Andre Gaines)Eesha (Srinivas Manne)
The Mother and the Bear (Johnny Ma)
Sirai (Suresh Rajakumari)
We Bury the Dead (Zak Hilditch)+