Sundance 2026 critics ratings

Scaled to 0-10

Very Good New Films

1. "Jaripeo" (Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig, Mexico, US, France) [8.75/4 1.3]
2. "The Gallerist" (Cathy Yan) [8.73/15 1.9]
3. "Wicker" (Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer) [8.60/5 1.7]
4. "Filipiñana" (Rafael Manuel, Singapore) [8.50/4 1.5]

Good New Films

5. "Levitating" (Wregas Bhanuteja, Indonesia, Singapore, France) [7.83/6 2.2]
6. "Buddy" (Casper Kelly, Screenwriter: Jamie King [7.40/5 1.5]
7. "In The Blink of An Eye" (Andrew Stanton) [7.00/13 2.1]

   The rest is below 7 or is not new or has not enough votes.

All official sections

U.S. Dramatic [9.33/8]

1. "Carousel" (Rachel Lambert) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!" (Josef Kubota Wladyka) [10.00/1 0.0]
3. "Josephine" (Beth de Araújo) [10.00/1 0.0]
4. "Take Me Home" (Liz Sargent) [10.00/1 4.0]
5. "The Musical" (Giselle Bonilla) [10.00/3 0.0]
6. "Union County" (Adam Meeks) [9.00/2 1.0]
7. "Run Amok" (NB Mager) [8.00/1 0.0]
8. "Hot Water" (Ramzi Bashour) [7.67/3 1.7]
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"Bedford Park" (Stephanie Ahn) [-]
"The Friend’s House is Here" (Hossein Keshavarz/Maryam Ataei, US/Iran) [-]

World Dramatic [6.72/6]

1. "How to Divorce During the War" (Andrius Blaževičius, Lithuania) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Filipiñana" (Rafael Manuel, Singapore) [8.50/4 1.5]
3. "Levitating" (Wregas Bhanuteja, Indonesia, Singapore, France) [7.83/6 2.2]
4. "Extra Geography" (Molly Manners, UK) [7.00/3 1.6]
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5. "LADY" (Olive Nwosu, UK, Nigeria) [5.00/1 0.0]
6. "The Huntress (La Cazadora)" (Suzanne Andrews Correa, Mexico) [2.00/1 0.0]
"Big Girls Don’t Cry" (Paloma Schneideman, New Zealand) [-]
"HOLD ONTO ME (Κράτα Με)" (Myrsini Aristidou, Cyprus, Denmark, Greece) [-]
"Shame and Money" (Visar Morina, Screenwriter: Doruntina Basha, Germany, Kosovo, Slovenia, Albania, North Macedonia, Belgium) [-]
"Tell Me Everything" (Moshe Rosenthal, Israel, France) [-]

U.S. Documentaries [9.50/4]

1. "Barbara Forever" (Brydie O’Connor) [10.00/2 0.0]
2. "Joybubbles" (Rachael J. Morrison) [10.00/1 0.0]
3. "Public Access" (David Shadrack Smith) [10.00/1 0.0]
4. "American Doctor" (Poh Si Teng, US/Palestine) [8.00/1 0.0]
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"American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez" (David Alvarado) [-]
"Nuisance Bear" (Gabriela Osio Vanden/Jack Weisman, US/Canada) [-]
"Seized" (Sharon Liese, US/Canada) [-]
"Soul Patrol" (J.M. Harper) [-]
"The Lake" (Abby Ellis) [-]
"Who Killed Alex Odeh?" (Jason Osder, William Lafi Youmans) [-]

World Documentaries [9.11/3]

1. "Everybody To Kenmure Street" (Felipe Bustos Sierra, UK) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Kikuyu Land" (Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu, Kenya) [9.33/3 0.9]
3. "To Hold a Mountain" (Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić, Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia) [8.00/1 0.0]
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"All About the Money" (Sinéad O’Shea, Ireland) [-]
"Birds of War" (Janay Boulos/Abd Alkader Habak, UK, Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon) [-]
"Closure" (Michał Marczak, Poland) [-]
"Hanging by a Wire" (Mohammed Ali Naqvi, US,UK,Pakistan) [-]
"One In A Million" (Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes, UK) [-]
"Sentient" (Tony Jones, Australia) [-]
"Silenced" (Selina Miles, Australia) [-]

NEXT [8.31/4]

1. "The Incomer" (Louis Paxton, UK) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Jaripeo" (Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig, Mexico, US, France) [8.75/4 1.3]
3. "BURN" (Makoto Nagahisa, Japan) [7.50/2 0.5]
4. "zi" (Kogonada) [7.00/1 0.0]
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"Ghost in the Machine" (Valerie Veatch) [-]
"If I Go Will They Miss Me" (Walter Thompson-Hernández) [-]
"Night Nurse" (Georgia Bernstein) [-]
"TheyDream" (William David Caballero) [-]

Midnight [6.84/5]

1. "The Best Summer" (Tamra Davis, U.S.A, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Saccharine" (Natalie Erika James, Australia) [7.67/3 1.7]
3. "Buddy" (Casper Kelly, Screenwriter: Jamie King [7.40/5 1.5]
4. "undertone" (Ian Tuason, Canada 2025) [7.14/1 0.0]
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5. "Rock Springs" (Vera Miao, US, Canada) [2.00/1 0.0]
"Leviticus" (Adrian Chiarella, Australia) [-]

Spotlight [7.12/2]

1. "Tuner" (Daniel Roher, Canada/USA 2025) Telluride [7.28/1 0.0]
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2. "Broken English" (Jane Pollard/Iain Forsyth, UK/USA 2025) Venice [6.97/1 0.0]

Kids [10.00/1]

1. "Fing!" (Jeffrey Walker, Australia, UK) [10.00/1 0.0]
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"Cookie Queens" (Alysa Nahmias) [-]

Premieres [7.31/13]

1. "See You When I See You" (Jay Duplass) [9.00/1 0.0]
2. "The Gallerist" (Cathy Yan) [8.73/15 1.9]
3. "Wicker" (Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer) [8.60/5 1.7]
4. "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass" (David Wain) [8.33/3 2.4]
5. "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York" (Noah Segan) [8.33/3 1.7]
6. "Frank & Louis" (Petra Biondina Volpe, Switzerland, UK) [8.00/1 0.0]
7. "Chasing Summer" (Josephine Decker) [7.33/3 1.9]
8. "In The Blink of An Eye" (Andrew Stanton) [7.00/13 2.1]
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9. "The Invite" (Olivia Wilde) [6.67/6 2.4]
10. "The Weight" (Padraic McKinley) [6.00/1 0.0]
11. "The Moment" (Aidan Zamiri) [5.90/21 2.9]
12. "The Shitheads" (Macon Blair) [5.67/6 3.3]
13. "I Want Your Sex" (Gregg Araki) [5.53/19 2.1]
"Jane Elliott Against the World" (Judd Ehrlich) [-]

Documentary Premieres [8.03/5]

1. "Time and Water" (Sara Dosa, US, Iceland) [10.00/1 0.0]
2. "Once Upon A Time In Harlem" (William Greaves, David Greaves) [8.67/3 1.9]
3. "The History of Concrete" (John Wilson) [8.50/2 2.9]
4. "Queen of Chess" (Rory Kennedy) [7.00/1 0.0]
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5. "Give Me the Ball!" (Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff) [6.00/1 0.0]
"Antiheroine" (Edward Lovelace, James Hall, UK/US) [-]
"Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie" (Alex Gibney) [-]
"Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story" (Judd Apatow, Neil Berkeley) [-]
"THE DISCIPLE" (Joanna Natasegara, USA, UK) [-]
"The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist" (Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell) [-]
"The Brittney Griner Story" (Alexandria Stapleton [-]
"The Last First: Winter K2" (Amir Bar-Lev, US, UK) [-]
"The Oldest Person in the World" (Sam Green) [-]
"Troublemaker" (Antoine Fuqua, South Africa, US, U.K) [-]
"When A Witness Recants" (Dawn Porter) [-]

Special Events

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"BAIT" (Various, UK/USA) [-]
"FreeLance" (The Turner Brothers) [-]
"Murder 101" (Stacey Lee) [-]
"The Oligarch and the Art Dealer" (Andreas Dalsgaard, Denmark, France, US) [-]
"The Screener" (Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe) [-]
"The Story of Documentary Film" (Mark Cousins, UK) [-]
"Worried" (Nicole Holofcener) [-]

17523/17772 Critics

filter stddev >2.5 from avg, <10 ratings or unknown
stddev name (magazine, cn) numratings ±diff
0.00 Amber (Film Student, US) [1 +0.0]
0.01 Sam Adams (Slate, US) [1 -0.0]
0.01 Vadim Rizov (Filmmaker Magazine, US) [1 -0.0]
0.58 A.A. Dowd (The A.V. Club, US) [3 -0.3]
0.99 Dan Mecca (The Film Stage, US) [1 +1.0]
0.99 Noel Murray (The Playlist, US) [1 +1.0]
0.99 Jason Bailey (The Playlist, Flavorwire, US) [1 +1.0]
0.99 Stephen (Local film buff, US) [1 +1.0]
0.99 Kevin Jagernauth (The Playlist, US) [1 +1.0]
0.99 Kevin Wozniak (kevflix.com, US) [1 +1.0]
0.99 Danny Hensel (NPR Stateside, Student Editor, US) [1 +1.0]
0.99 Alex Billington (FirstShowing.net, ) [1 +1.0]
1.01 Dustin Putman (TheBluFile, TheFilmFile, TheFrightFile, US) [1 -1.0]
1.01 Kevin Dando (Ex-PBS, US) [1 -1.0]
1.01 Rob Hunter (Film School Rejects, US) [1 -1.0]
1.01 Pontus Ridderstedt (Librarian, Sweden) [1 -1.0]
1.01 Brian Tallerico (RogerEbert.com, US) [1 -1.0]
2.67 Candice Frederick (The Wrap, US) [1 -2.7]