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Movie reviews are finished-film grades. Expect notes on performance, cut discipline, and whether a franchise open bought oxygen or only a headline. Spoiler policy stays labeled when the ending object matters. Use announcements for dates and castings. Use theories for trailer scripture. Use this page when the lights already went down and you want a verdict tied to the cut you watched, not the campaign that sold the seat. Premium format talk belongs here only when the room changed the movie. Listings below are cinema grades without TV noise mixed into the same grid, so you can find the ticket verdict fast. If you are new here, start with the newest listing, check the byline desk stamp, and treat every date as sourced logistics rather than rumor from a comment section.
Street Fighter opens in theaters at 45 on Metacritic and 45 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics split on the jokes and the ending but nearly united on its 2D animated flashbacks. Here is the split without a Dorkify grade.
Reviews/Movies grades the multiplex hour as week two opens: franchise-best weekend near $60.15 million, Wednesday near $4.51 million, domestic through Sep 23 near $76.87 million. The second weekend is argument, not a forged drop chart.
Reviews/Movies grades the multiplex hour after Monday actuals: franchise-best weekend near $60.15 million, Monday near $5.31 million, B+ CinemaScore still in the open notes. Midweek is for argument, not a forged second-weekend percentage.
After the franchise-best open, Resident Evil still has to prove the scare travels. Day-after oxygen is not the same as legs.
Reviews/Movies grades the sourced weekend: franchise-best domestic debut near $60 million, global near $108.3 million, B+ CinemaScore still in the notes. Monday is for argument, not forged second-weekend math.
Reviews/Movies files the sourced Friday number: about $26.3M domestic including previews, with B+ CinemaScore and high RT weather still in the notes. Monday actuals can wait.
Reviews/Movies files Cregger's Resident Evil as Saturday tickets keep selling. High RT weather and record previews are context. The multiplex hour is the claim.
Weekend reviews chatter keeps circling the same compliment: Cregger adapted the feeling of playing survival horror more than a lore wiki. Spoiler-light premise only.
Reviews desk grades Cregger's Capcom reboot as Friday arrives. High RT and record previews are weather. The ticket is the only score that finishes the argument.
Critics hover near 96 to 97 percent while audience sits around 91 on Rotten Tomatoes in opening chatter. Spoiler-light: Cregger, Abrams, and a score fight that will outlast the first weekend.
Reviews desk files Cregger's Resident Evil as the live-action adap chatter king before Friday. High RT is weather. The ticket is the grade that counts.
Reviews desk grades the live-action adap chatter before opening night. Spoiler-light premise only: Cregger, Abrams, and a score that will get argued louder than the plot.
Overnight reactions call it relentless and Abrams-led. Reviews desk grades the ask before embargos finish arguing with themselves.
$30M domestic and $46M global is not the $38M hope. It is still the right grade for a coven that took decades to become mandatory.
Number one on a soft $30M domestic and $46M global is not the $38M to $50M hope. It is still the right grade for a 1990s coven that took decades to become mandatory.
Roshan Sethi's The Surgeon premiered in Toronto's Centrepiece program with Yeoh as a retired doctor forced into criminal surgery, strong notices, and no U.S. distributor attached yet.
Peter Farrelly's Sylvester Stallone biopic premiered at Toronto on September 12, with Anthony Ippolito in the lead and Amazon MGM dating a November 6 limited start before a November 20 wide expansion.
Audiences stamped Practical Magic 2 a B+ (better than the original's B-) on a soft ~$28-30M open against a $75M budget. Grade the stamp, not the weekend number alone.
Warner Bros.' Practical Magic 2 is tracking roughly $30 to $37M for the Sept 11 to 13 frame after a $4.7M Thursday preview, ending Brand New Day's six-week run at No. 1. Opening-weekend filing, not a Rotten Tomatoes sermon.
Scott Waugh's Runner opens wide today with Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson. As of this filing Rotten Tomatoes sits at 72 percent from 39 reviews and Metacritic at 56 mixed from 12. Reviews desk grades the corridor, not a fake opening actual.
Practical Magic 2 sits around 35 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and the mid-40s on Metacritic as of this Friday filing, in line with the 1998 original's critic card. I am grading the public sheet, not inventing a Popcornmeter.
Avengers Endgame: Encore returns September 25 with a Doomsday look; IMAX and Infinity Vision add an extra peek. Reviews Movies grades the rewatch carton, not a 2019 rescore.
September 25 theatrical re-release adds a Doomsday look, with IMAX and Infinity Vision rooms getting the exclusive extra peek. This is appointment math, not a forged rescore of the Infinity Saga finale.
Destin Daniel Cretton told NPR Fresh Air he had to request Hulk and Jean Grey from Kevin Feige. Reviewing the grounded erased Peter premise against the cameo oxygen it still spends.
Why Did I Get Married Again? premieres on Netflix September 9, 2026: Tyler Perry returns, Taraji P. Henson joins as Roselyn, Lake Como wedding premise. Packaging review without inventing critic scores.
Wild Horse Nine earned a reported 14-minute ovation at Venice and a stack of Malkovich raves with real reservations attached. I am grading festival notices and a dated theatrical, not inventing a locked Tomato.
Neon opens Na Hong-jin's Hope on September 9. Rotten Tomatoes sits around 72 and Metacritic around 67 as of this filing. This is a ticket grade of the public sheet, not a private screening.
Sony screened Zach Cregger's opening half hour on September 1. The rooms sounded sold. This filing reviews the preview, not a Tomatometer I refuse to invent.
Jack Auen and Kevin Walker's Chronovisor opened in limited release September 4 with a 93 on Rotten Tomatoes and an 89 Metascore. Here is who it is for and who should skip it.
Mirzapur: The Movie opened Friday at 197 minutes. The Hindu, India Today, and trade notices agree the cast bites. The craft fight is length, politics, and whether OTT chaos survives a ticket stub.
Na Hong-jin's Hope hits U.S. theaters September 9 with a Rotten Tomatoes card near 77 and a Metacritic near 68. I am grading the public sheet before the lobby opens, not inventing a sequel.
Bratton's Paramount historical thriller opens Friday with mixed grades and a reverse Green Book argument. The craft is loud. The pedagogy is the fight. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is the SKU.
Mayday lands on Apple TV September 4 with Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, and a Rotten Tomatoes card in the mid-80s. Metacritic is colder. I am grading the public stream, not inventing a theatrical miracle.
Fall 2: Deadpoint opened at 53 percent and a 54 Metascore. The critics agree the height still works, then argue whether anything around it deserves the climb.
Day after Fall 2: Deadpoint, the craft argument is cleaner than the grades. The Spierigs still know how to erase the floor. The script keeps trying to invent a reason.
Wingard's A24 desert siege opens September 4 with a mid-70s Tomatometer and a mid-60s Metacritic. The craft is loud. The payoff is the argument. Adria Arjona is the SKU.
Onslaught opens September 4 with Adria Arjona and Adam Wingard. Rotten Tomatoes sits near 74. This is the critic pile, not opening-night popcorn.
James Watkins' Speak No Evil is the public rehearsal for October's R-rated Clayface. The remake made money as hospitality horror. The melting man is not a villains reel on this evidence.
The Dog Stars sits at 39 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and 49 on Metacritic. This is the critic pile, not the Coyote box-office joke.
Dave Green's Coyote vs. Acme opened August 28 through Ketchup Entertainment and earned an A CinemaScore. Here is what the film is, what the grades mean, and where the critics split.
Netflix unlocks James Ashcroft's Alex North adaptation today. I have not screened it. Deadline, the Los Angeles Times, and Metacritic already argue the case: a 90s crime picture in a 2026 login, honest at roughly 111 minutes, haunted by men who go silent until a child is gone.