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[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 16, 2026 ### [Daisy Edgar-Jones Anchors a Charming 'Sense and Sensibility'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/15/sense-and-sensibility-movie-review/) There's plenty to love in Georgia Oakley’s adaptation of the Jane Austen novel [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 16, 2026 ### [Elizabeth Holmes Is Not the Problem With 'You Can See Everything'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/15/you-can-see-everything-movie-review/) The Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim film is not actually that groundbreaking [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 9, 2026 ### ['Fjord' Details a Family’s Sudden Nightmare](https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/fjord-review/) Cristian Mungiu's drama starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve is drawn from a real-life child p... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 9, 2026 ### [Review: 'Misty Green'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/misty-green-review/) Chris Rock's movie about an actor trying to make it in Hollywood channels an almost existential long... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 7, 2026 ### [Review: 'The Social Reckoning'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/07/the-social-reckoning-review/) Sorkin’s approach to telling the next chapter in the Facebook story is somewhat professorial, but th... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 7, 2026 ### [Review: 'Artificial'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/06/artificial-review-andrew-garfield-sam-altman/) In his portrait of Sam Altman and the rise of OpenAI, Luca Guadagnino has made a movie that's despai... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 29, 2026 ### [Tom Cruise Bloviates His Way Through the Aggressively Unfunny Digger](https://time.com/article/2026/09/29/digger-review/) Alejandro G. Iñárritu's latest film has a million moving parks and nothing to say [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 25, 2026 ### [Review: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!](https://time.com/article/2026/09/25/ha-chan-shake-your-booty-review/) Rinko Kikuchi stars as a widow learning to face the music, and the world, after death stopped her in... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 25, 2026 ### [Review: Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother](https://time.com/article/2026/09/24/your-mother-your-mother-your-mother-review/) The two-time Oscar winner plays a hit man experiencing a crisis off faith in the new action movie. [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 18, 2026 ### [Resident Evil Is a Fleet, Entertaining Reboot](https://time.com/article/2026/09/18/resident-evil-review/) Zach Cregger's latest film is a satisfying zombie-filled journey [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 18, 2026 ### [Review: The History of Concrete](https://time.com/article/2026/09/15/the-history-of-concrete-review-john-wilson/) John Wilson follows up his HBO series with a feature-length meditation on not just concrete, but any... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 7, 2026 ### [Review: Robert Pattinson in 'Primetime'](https://time.com/article/2026/09/06/primetime-review-robert-pattinson/) Pattinson plays 'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim's first narrative feature... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 6, 2026 ### [Review: Lee Chang Dong's 'Possible Love'](https://time.com/article/2026/09/02/possible-love-review-lee-chang-dong/) The filmmaker behind 'Burning' traces the interconnected stories of two couples across the class div... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 4, 2026 ### [Review: Werner Herzog's 'Bucking Fastard'](https://time.com/article/2026/09/04/bucking-fastard-review-werner-herzog/) The real-life sisters play scorned sisters, inspired by a real-life duo from York, in a meandering s... 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