The 14 movies were most looking forward to in 2026

Even as the best films of 2025 linger in memory — it truly was a good year — we’re not sorry to flip the calendar page.Bring on the new shiny stuff: epic Homeric hugeness from Chistopher Nolan and sci-fi aliens from Steven Spielberg.

We await greatness from Greta (Gerwig, that is).And a Quentin Tarantino–David Fincher collab sounds perfectly fun to us.

Here are the 2026 titles we jotted down quickly on the back of a cocktail napkin.Those howls in the moors are literature fans fighting over whether this reimagining of Emily Brontë’s 1847 gothic romance will be confoundingly misguided or bodice-rippingly good.

Either way, the latest provocation by Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman,” “Saltburn”) is already triggering a reaction just from its trailer which boasted images of lobsters in top hats, Margot Robbie in period-scrambling red sunglasses and Jacob Elordi licking a wall.Tepid is not Fennell’s thing.

But so far, Fennell tends to be my thing — I admire directors who are game to take salacious swings.Will her “Wuthering Heights” wind up being a juicy but familiar adaptation of the obsessive love affair between newlywed Cathy and her rich and cruel neighbor, Heathcliff? Or should audiences be reading into the suspicious air quotes around the title? A Valentine’s Day-adjacent opening hints it wants to make audiences hot and bothered.

— Amy Nicholson Classic monster tales have recently provided fresh inspiration for contemporary filmmakers (“Nosferatu,” “Frankenstein”) so now here comes Maggie Gyllenhaal’s stylized, energetic reinvention of “The Bride of Frankenstein.” (The title’s exclamation point is how you know she’s extra.) Reuniting the actor-turned-filmmaker with Jessie Buckley, one of the stars of Gyllenhaal’s Oscar-nominated directing debut “The Lost Daughter,” the story has been moved to 1930s Chicago with references to movies such as “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Wild at Heart” being thrown ...