Is it safe to say movies are back? Sure, there’s still plenty of anxiety around the film industry and its future. But cinematically speaking, 2026 has gotten off to, arguably, the most blazing hot start since the pre-pandemic glory days, both critically and at the box office.
Of course, for our purposes, we like to focus on the creative successes, and it’s rare for the first quarter of any year to produce so many achievements of various scopes and budgets. Any time you get both a Project Hail Mary and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – not to mention leftfield horror triumphs like Backrooms and Obsession – all before the calendar’s halfway point, you know it’s a good time to be a film fan, especially when there are new spectacles from Christopher Nolan, Marvel and the Dune franchise on the horizon.
But that’s later. Here’s the best of what we’ve seen so far.
📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)
😂 The best comedy movies of 2026 (so far)
📕 15 book-to-movie adaptations to get excited about in 2026
🔥 The 40 best movies of 2025
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