We must savour these moments. When we don’t know for certain how unhinged Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” will be, or if the talking-sheep-solve-Hugh-Jackman’s-murder movie (released 8 May!) is a once-in-a-generation classic or an absolute dumpster fire. That’s the joy of looking over a calendar of new films at this time of year – it’s all so mysterious, so exciting, so encouraging of absolutely wild declarations. Remember this time last year when I predicted Keanu Reeves would win an Oscar for a movie that still hasn’t actually come out? Hilarious!
What we do know for certain is that 2026 looks pretty great, with a slate full of provocative dramas, ambitious blockbusters, intriguing comedies and an inexplicable amount of Anne Hathaway. Seriously, she’s in four of the movies we’ve selected below, plus an elaborate pop-star psychodrama with Michaela Coel and potentially a Ron Howard film if it gets completed in time. One way to prove that we’re collectively better than we used to be? Letting her get through the year without a backlash a la the period around 2012 or 2013 when we all for some reason decided she was annoying.
