2026 Release Log
I don’t like to put ratings on my reviews, but I do occasionally share them on letterboxd. This page (whose structure is shamelessly lifted from Michael Sicinski’s), includes a running top 10 and general categorization for a broad range of new releases. Includes any “new release”, aka theatrical releases, world premieres, and older festival films seen for the first time this year.
Top 10:
1. Everything Else is Noise (Nicolas Pereda)
2. Rojo Žalia Blau (Viktoria Schmid)
3. Practice Towards Light (Jonathan Seungjoon Lee, Yun-hee Huh)
4. Debut, or Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)
5. Unstable Rocks (Ewelina Rosinka)
6. Forever…Forever (Johann Lurf)
7. Local Sensations (Tulapop Saenjaroen)
8. Assets and Liabilities (Zach Weintraub)
9. Joan of Arc (Hlynur Pálmason)
10. Good Valley Stories (Jose Luis Guerin)
* = seen prior to 2026
[10]
[9]
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)*
[8]
Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)*
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)*
Debut, or Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)
Everything Else is Noise (Nicolas Pereda)
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)*
Practice Towards Light (Jonathan Seungjoon Lee, Yun-hee Huh)
Rojo Žalia Blau (Viktoria Schmid)
Unstable Rocks (Ewelina Rosinka)
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)*
[7]
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta)
Ariel (Lois Patiño)
Assets and Liabilities (Zach Weintraub)
Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari)*
Drunken Noodles (Lucio Castro)*
Forever…Forever (Johann Lurf)
Joan of Arc (Hlynur Pálmason)
Good Valley Stories (Jose Luis Guerin)
Injured? (Einslow Johnson)
Kontinental ‘25 (Radu Jude)*
The Last One For the Road (Francesco Sossai)*
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes (Gabriel Azorin)
Local Sensations (Tulapop Saenjaroen)
London (Sebastian Brameshuber)
The Love that Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)*
Magellan (Lav Diaz)*
Remote Views (Alexis McCrimmon)
Still Life Primavera (Pierre Creton)
What Does that Nature Say to You? (Hong Sang-Soo)
[6]
100 Sunset (Kunsang Kyirong)
Anomalies in a Landscape (Félix Caraballo)
Barbara Forever (Byrdie O’Connor)
Chang Gyeong (Lee Jangwook)
The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
Closure (Michal Marczak)
Levers (Rhayne Vermette)*
Light Pillar (Xu Zao)
Nuestra Tierra (Lucrecia Martel)
phototropes (Blanca Garcia, James Devine)
Pin de Fartie (Alejo Moguillansky)
Pompeii: Below the Clouds (Francesco Rosi)
Mare’s Nest (Ben Rivers)
The Moment (Aidan Zamiri)
Revelations of Divine Love (Caroline Golum)
Sirāt (Oliver Laxe)
Where is the Friend’s House? (Hossein Keshavarz, Maryam Ataei)
The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas)
Yes (Nadav Lapid)
[5]
Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil)
The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart)*
The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli)
Night King (Jack Ng Wai-Lun)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-Wook)*
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)*
Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor)*
[4]
By Design (Amanda Kramer)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)*
A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski)
Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)*
Scare Out (Zhang Yimou)
Trial of Hein (Kai Stänicke)