Worth a cinema ticket

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Nintendo / Illumination

Bright, fast, and full of playful world-building, it understands that Mario works best when the rules are simple and the imagination is limitless.

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Michael

Lionsgate

A carefully staged portrait of a performer who changed pop music, with its strongest scenes showing the discipline beneath the spectacle.

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Project Hail Mary

Amazon MGM

A generous piece of science fiction built around curiosity, problem-solving, and the idea that cooperation can travel farther than any one person.

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Obsession

Focus Features

A sharp, uneasy thriller about desire becoming a system of control, carried by performances that refuse easy moral answers.

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The Devil Wears Prada 2

20th Century Studios

A reunion with enough new workplace tension to justify itself, turning the fashion world into a smart stage for ambition, loyalty, and reinvention.

B

Backrooms

A24

A liminal-space horror film that turns empty architecture into a story about isolation, repetition, and the fear of being observed.

MM

Minions & Monsters

Illumination

A compact family adventure with enough visual invention for children and enough comic timing for adults to enjoy the ride.

TM

The Mandalorian and Grogu

Lucasfilm

A smaller, more character-led Star Wars adventure that works because the helmet, the creature, and the quiet moments still carry real affection.

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Hoppers

Pixar

A high-concept animated comedy that uses body-swapping to make its environmental ideas personal, funny, and unexpectedly tender.

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Avatar: Fire and Ash

20th Century Studios

A visually overwhelming return to Pandora that expands the world with a harsher culture, stronger political tension, and a more wounded family.

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Resident Evil

Sony Pictures

A tense, muscular horror reboot that remembers the best Resident Evil stories are about ordinary people trying to survive a system built to fail them.

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Moana

Disney

A live-action voyage that keeps the original’s sense of movement and responsibility while giving its island world a more tactile scale.

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Scream 7

Paramount

A self-aware slasher that still understands the basic pleasure of a locked room, a sharp suspect list, and one more rule the killer can break.

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Disclosure Day

Universal

A conspiracy-minded science-fiction thriller that makes the world feel large, watched, and one public announcement away from changing forever.

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Scary Movie

Paramount

A broad horror parody with enough current targets and quick visual jokes to make its return feel more than a brand-name exercise.

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GOAT

Sony Pictures

A sports animation about an unlikely underdog that understands momentum, teamwork, and the emotional power of one clean final play.

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Wuthering Heights

Warner Bros.

A stormy, visually confident adaptation that treats obsession as weather: beautiful, destructive, and impossible to keep outside.