10 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Critics are clustering around a lively slate of releases this week: literary reinventions, genre throwbacks, star-driven thrillers and intimate dramas that linger. Below, Filmogaz breaks down the ten titles generating the most conversation and why they matter to moviegoers right now.
Reimagined Classics: A New Wuthering Heights
Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of a well-worn 19th-century tale stakes its claim with high-octane performances from Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff. Early reactions praise the central chemistry, but many critics find Fennell’s embellishments increasingly conspicuous as the film progresses. The result is a stylized, often potent rethinking of the text that occasionally frays under its own ambition.
Genre Nights: Fungus Horror and B‑Movie Fun
A throwback horror romp set largely in a storage facility pairs practical gore with a tongue-in-cheek tone. Joe Keery and Georgina Campbell play employees battling a spreading killer fungus, with Liam Neeson popping in as a bioterror operative. The film leans into B‑movie pleasures — a brisk runtime, gross-out effects and a premise built for repeatable scares — even if it sacrifices sustained thrills for cheeky energy.
Weird and Wired: Time-Travel, A. I. and Animated Revenge
Gore Verbinski turns the dial toward the wildly strange with a pulp-inflected quest in which Sam Rockwell’s future envoy enlists diner patrons to stop a rogue artificial intelligence. The film dips in the middle, but Verbinski’s appetite for visual oddity guarantees payoffs for viewers patient enough to ride the wave. In animation, a Mamoru Hosoda project riffing on Hamlet sends a Danish princess through purgatory in a lush, occasionally uneven saga that mixes Shakespearean themes with fantastical worldbuilding.
Small-Scale Power: Family and Coming-of-Age Dramas
Set in 1993 Nigeria, Akinola Davies’s drama follows brothers Aki and Remi on an errand with their father, Folarin. Critics point to a piercing contrast of beauty and pain — scenes of seaside play are undercut by a quiet ache that gives the film its emotional thrust. Similarly, a cross-country college-visit road movie centers on Joe, accompanied by his grandfather, and chronicles unexpected lessons amid profanities and blunt humor; reviewers note that the tone and language may surprise viewers familiar with the central character.
Offbeat Comedies and Heist‑Adjacent Thrillers
Two oddball comedies are garnering attention for very different reasons. One is a Toronto-set time-travel caper by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol that functions as both a mockumentary and a meditation on the roads not taken — an energetic, at times scattershot exercise in comic pathos. On the slicker end, a Los Angeles-set crime thriller starring Chris Hemsworth borrows heavily from classic urban heist textures. The film wears its influences proudly; while some critics argue it rarely escapes those shadows, others applaud its polished thrills and lead performance.
Across these ten films, the common thread is risk: directors are pushing familiar ingredients into new tonal or formal territory. Not every gamble lands, but the week’s slate offers several films that reward viewers willing to be surprised.
