Your 2026 movie-going calendar is already filling up, and fast. Over the course of a calendar year, we here at IndieWire watch hundreds of new films. Some of those titles make it to our best of the year list . A few more pop up on our staff picks list . A handful of real gems are still looking for homes (and we’re still stumping for them). And some? Well, we’ve spent months chatting them up, only to be forced to reveal to our (likely captive) audiences that, oh, actually, that film is not