Taiwan’s official Oscar submission for the 2026 Academy Awards awards, which comes from the writer-director of last year’s Oscar winner Anora, Left-Handed Girl captures the story of a single mother who returns to Taipei from the countryside, only to face old-world tensions as her grandfather refers to her 5-year-old I-Jing’s preferred hand as “the devil.”

A raw, character-driven psychological drama underscored by dark humor, the A24 Sundance hit follows a therapist (Rose Byrne) whose life unravels as she struggles with her daughter’s mysterious illness, an absent husband, and a (literally) collapsing home. A survival story that speaks to timely anxieties about parenting kids with mental health challenges, identity crises, and

An awards contender and Sundance darling, the sweeping historical drama draws parallels between the life of a day laborer in the Pacific Northwest at the start of the 20th century and the transformation of the American frontier as the railroads were built, exploring the tensions between destruction and progress, grief and resilience.  Joel Edgerton, Felicity

Adapted from the Tony‑winning Broadway musical, which was born out of a 1976 novel, celebrated writer and director Bill Condon (Chicago, Gods and Monsters) is behind this Technicolor musical fantasy. Set in 1980s Argentina, a flamboyant window dresser shares a prison cell with a hardened political prisoner, and distracts them both by recounting an extravagant

A dark, psychological thriller that skewers hustle culture and online marketplaces, Cloud tells the story of a young Japanese man who quits his steady factory job to build a profitable reselling business, flipping discounted items at steep markups. As he becomes more successful, disgruntled customers and competitors begin to track him down, culminating in a

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy leads this intense drama about a chaotic day in the life of a British reform school on the brink of closure and the headmaster who attempts to protect his students as he battles his own addiction and emotional breakdown.  From The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw: “A drama suffused with gonzo energy and

A white-knuckle true story about the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California — still the deadliest wildfire in US history — The Lost Bus follows a school teacher (America Ferrera) and bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) as they team up and risk everything to save 22 children from the flames, facing their own flaws and

Dovetailing with the release of Swift’s much ballyhooed new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” this first-of-its-kind theatrical event managed to shutdown AMC’s app and site for a time the day it was announced. Unlike Swift’s Eras concert film, which broke box office records, The Official Release Party is more of a preamble, combining a

Mark Wahlberg’s darkly comedic mob thriller follows a professional thief whose horse track heist goes off the rails, forcing him to find a new crew and plot a higher stakes score to avenge the traitors who set him up.  A slick ensemble co-starring Tony Shalhoub, Keegan-Michael Key, LaKeith Stanfield, Gretchen Mol, and Rosa Salazar, it’s

The third and final film in the franchise that began with cross-generational appointment television in the UK in 2010, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale takes us up to the 1930s and follows Lady Mary as she lands in a public scandal and the larger Crawley family as they face financial strain and succession questions. Ideally,