Category: Comedy
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Wicker: A Real Basket Case, Am I Right?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Wicker (2026) Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer The weekend of new releases continues! Morgan’s been unavailable for most of the weekend due to clinicals, but she was free tonight, so we had to go see a movie. We decided to check out Wicker—because I had “checked out” everything else myself already—and I was surprised by the entire experience. I was expecting an odd, raunchy romantic-comedy, and…
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Wild Horse Nine: Trade Out Your Bullets for Horses
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Wild Horse Nine (2026) Martin McDonagh That may be the last school night press screening that I do for a while. Don’t get me wrong; I really love going to press screenings, and tonight’s movie was fantastic. But driving 80 minutes from Roanoke to downtown Dallas on a Tuesday night for a 110-minute movie? Not the most fun way to spend an evening. For as much…
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Digger: Standing in the Hole and Still Digging
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Digger (2026) Alejandro G. Iñárritu In my September Nate at the Movies newsletter (that’s read by all of 13 people, half of whom are family), I named Wildwood as my biggest-ticket movie of October. I am legitimately stoked for that movie, but Digger must have heard that I said that, because it entered the ring tonight and stole the show. Wildwood still has a chance to…
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Resident Evil (2026): Cregger Deep in His Level A Bag
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Resident Evil (2026) Zach Cregger I know what you’re thinking. You saw this on my website or my Letterboxd and thought, “Resident Evil? Has Nate even played the games? Has he seen any of the movies?”. And the answer to both of those questions would be no. I have zero experience with the Resident Evil universe, but I do have (limited) experience with Zach Cregger, and…
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Mayday: Third Gun From the Top, But Count Me Ass-Ass-In!
Mayday (2026) Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley Other than the opening weeks of 2026, I can’t remember a longer drought of new movies this year than the one we’re in right now. The last time I went to the theater for a new film was The Dog Stars on September 4, and I won’t be back until my press screening of Forgotten Island on the 22nd. Luckily, though, a few streamers have dropped in…
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Coyote vs. Acme: In Defense of Trying and Failing and Trying Again
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Coyote vs. Acme (2026) Dave Green It’s here! It’s finally here! I understand I’ve said this about a couple movies in the past, but it applies most truly here: I have been waiting for Coyote vs. Acme for years. Since it began filming back in 2022, I’ve followed this film’s tough journey from being shelved by Warner Brothers to being freed by a mob of Looney Tunes lovers…
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: Jane Schoenbrun Likes to Make My Brain Hurt
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) Jane Schoenbrun If I had a nickel for every 2026 summer movie that used an AC vent as a storytelling device, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird (nay, absolutely bonkers) that it happened twice. Given my disappointment with I Saw the TV Glow when I saw it in 2024, my expectations for Jane Schoenbrun’s next…
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Tony: Let Matt Johnson and Dominic Sessa Cook!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Tony (2026) Matt Johnson If you’re a loyal reader of my Letterboxd, you’d already know that 2026 has been the year of Matt Johnson for me. I’ve become obsessed with him as a filmmaker, starting with Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie in February and continuing with Nirvanna the Band the Show and BlackBerry this summer. Each of his projects have been refreshingly outside-the-box, hilarious, and heartfelt, so it…
