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Ben Wheatley Replaces Rob Savage on ‘Molepeople' — LaKeith Stanfield Also Exits Blumhouse Horror Movie Due Next Summer

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The 20 Best Horror Movies of the 21st Century, and the Best of 2026

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‘You Can See Everything' Adds 600 Screens Friday, Expanding to 3200+ Theaters in Push for #1

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3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
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Critics Poll 2020: The Participants

July 13, 2020 Jordan Ruimy

Simon Abrams (Roger Ebert)

Vitalina Varela
I Wish I Knew
The Wild Goose Lake
Hansel and Gretel
The Traitor
The Cordillera of Dreams
Da 5 Bloods
Circus of Books
Circumstancial Pleasures
Heimat is a Space in Time

Carlos Aguilar (Los Angeles Times)

And Then We Danced
Bacurau
Beanpole
House of Hummingbird
I’m No Longer Here
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley
Vitalina Varela
A White, White Day
The Wolf House

Ethan Alter (Yahoo)

The Assistant
Blow the Man Down
Circus of Books
Emma First
Cow
Gretel & Hansel
The Invisible Man
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Whistlers
Zombi Child

Erik Anderson (Awards Watch)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley
Palm Springs
The Invisible Man
The King of Staten Island
The Assistant
Da 5 Bloods
Birds of Prey
Hamilton Lost Girls

David Ansen (Newsweek)

Beanpole
Corpus Christi
The Painter and the Thief
Welcome to Chechnya
Straight Up
Crip Camp
First Cow
True History of the Kelly Gang
Marona’s Fantastic Tale
Emma
Bacurau

Edwain Arnaudin (MX Arts)

Da 5 Bloods
Bad Education
The Trip to Greece
Emma
The Lodge
All I Can Say
The King of Staten Island
Pahokee
The Wild Goose Lake
Extra Ordinary

Michael Atkinson (The Village Voice)

The Wolf House
Beanpole
The Vast of Night
Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Tom Beasley (Yahoo UK)

Da 5 Bloods
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Invisible Man

Nicolas Bell (IONCinema.com)

Dau. Natasha
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Surrogate
Shirley
Bacurau
First Cow
The Assistant
Swallow
A Girl Missing
White White Day

William Bibbianni (Bloody Disgusting!)

Birds of Prey
Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
Driveways
Blood Machines

Alex Biese (Asbury Park Press)

Da 5 Bloods
A Secret Love
Shirley
The Invisible Man
Ride Your Wave
Capone
Weathering With You
Circus of Books
Miss Juneteenth
Color Out of Space

Collin Biggs (That Shelf)

Bad Education
The Invisible Man
The Last Dance
Da 5 Bloods
Be Water

Charles Bramesco (The Playlist)

First Cow
Bad Education
Zombi Child
Swallow
Bacurau
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Deerskin
The Wild Goose Lake

Jim Brunzell (AGLIFF)

Shirley
The Go Go's
Gunda
Beastie Boys Story

Sean Burns (WBUR)

First Cow
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Beanpole
Bacurau
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Vitalina Varela
Da 5 Bloods
The Painter and the Thief
The Assistant
You Don't Nomi

Erik Childress (eFilmCritic)

The Assistant
Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
The Lodge
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Palm Springs
Saint Frances
Swallow
The Vast of Night
The Way Back

Joel Copling (Freelance)

La Casa Lobo
Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Sorry We Missed You

Jordan Cronk (Film Comment)

Circumstantial Pleasures
DAU
Fire Will Come
Heimat Is a Space in Time
I Was at Home, But...
Joan of Arc
Liberté
Tommaso
Vitalina Varela
Zombi Child

James Croot (Stuff)

The Assistant
Bad Education
Blow the Man Down
The Extraordinary
The Half of It
The Vast of Night

Andrew Crump

First Cow
Vitalina Varela
Bacurau
The Assistant
Babyteeth
Da 5 Bloods
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Driveways
The Paint and the Thief
After Midnight

Mike D’Angelo (A.V. Club)

Save Yourselves
The Invisible Man
On the Record
First Cow
White White Day
Fourteen
The Vast Of Night
Bad Education

Manhola Dargis (The New York Times)

Beanpole
Bacurau
Sorry We Missed You
The Invisible Man
Crip Camp

A.A. Dowd (The A.V. Club)

The Assistant
Beanpole
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
First Cow
Fourteen
The Grand Bizarre
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
True History of the Kelly Gang
A White, White Day
The Wild Goose Lake

Mark Dujsik (Roger Ebert)

Hilma Afklint
Corpus Christi
Da 5 Bloods
Incitement
The Invisible Man
Our Mothers
A Regular Woman
Deux Mois
Sorry We Missed Your
The Surrogate

Michael Dunaway (Paste Magazine)

Da 5 Bloods
Hamilton
Shirley
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Kajillionaire

Alonso Duralde (The Wrap)

Bacurau
Crip Camp
Driveways
Emma
First Cow
The Half of It
House of Hummingbird
Miss Juneteenth
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley

 Garrett Eberhardt (The Cinema Babel)

Da 5 Bloods
Incitement
The Invisible Man
Arkansas
The Traitor
True History of the Kelly Gang
Uncorked
Ana
Photograph
How to Build A Girl

Gregory Ellwood (The Playlist)

Shirley
Palm Springs
Emma
Relic
The Invisible Man

David Fear (Rolling Stone)

The Assistant
Bacurau
Beanpole
First Cow
The Invisible Man
Tigertail
The Whistlers
The Wild Goose Lake
The Vast of Night
Zombi Child

John Lynn Fernandez (ICSFilm)

The Wild Goose Lake
Liberte
Bacurau
The Wolf House
Yourself and Yours
Hill of Freedom
The Traitor
Vitalina Varela
Zombi Child

Candance Fredericks (Bazaar)

Da 5 Bloods
On the Record
Bad Education
Miss Juneteenth
Tigertail
The Lodge
Be Water

Jon Frosch (The Hollywood Reporter)

And Then We Danced
Beanpole
Crip Camp
Da 5 Bloods
Driveways
First Cow
The King of Staten Island
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Premature
The Surrogate

Jacky Goldberg (Les Inrockputibles)

The Vast of Night
First Cow
The Human Surge
The Climb
The King of Staten Island
Wrong Missy
Vitalina Varela
Light of My Life
Hotel by the River
Bacurau

Bill Goodykoontz (Arizona Central)

Da 5 Bloods
Beastie Boys Story
First Cow
The Assistant
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Vast of Night
Bad Education
Palm Springs
The Lodge

Michael Grant (The Comeback)

Bad Education
All the Right Places
Da 5 Bloods
The Occupant
Saint Frances
Tigertail
Swallow
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Driveways
The Invisible Man

Leah Greenblatt (Entertainment Weekly)

Bad Education
Crip Camp
Da 5 Bloods
Emma
First Cow
Invisible Man
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley
The Assistant
The Way Back

John Hammerle (Chicago Now)

The Invisible Man
Bad Education
Da 5 Bloods
The Platform
The Vast of Night

Angie Han (Mashable)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Da 5 Bloods
Shirley
Emma
Crip Camp
Swallow
The Assistant
Bad Education
Miss Americana
Birds of Prey

Zaki Hasan (Huffington Post)

Da 5 Bloods
The Last Dance
Bad Education
The Invisible Man
Extra Ordinary
Troop Zero
Bad Boys For Life
Onward
Sonic the Hedgehog
Call of the Wild

Barry Hertz (The Globe and Mail)

Da 5 Bloods
First Cow
Fourteen
The Painted Bird
The Painter and the Thief
Relic
Selah and the Spades
Spaceship Earth
The Vast of Night
White Lie

Wendy Ide (The Guardian)

First Cow
True History of the Kelly Gang
Bacurau
The Assistant
Babyteeth
And Then We Danced
On The Record
Take Me Somewhere Nice
The Vast of the Night
Why Don't You Just Die

Dan Jackson (Thrillist)

First Cow
Bacurau
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Da 5 Bloods
Color Out of Space
Shirley
Sorry We Missed You
Bad Education
The Assistant
The Way Back

Nicholas Barber and Caryn James (BBC)

Da 5 Bloods
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Hunt
Bacurau
The Assistant
Emma
The Vast of Night
The Painter and the Thief
True History of the Kelly Gang

Richard T. Jameson (Film Comment)

The Vast of Night
First Cow
The Truth
The Hunt
Lost Bullet
The Lodge
Babyteeth
Pearl
The Invisible Man
The Beach House

Neela Josh (Gaming Ideology)

The Assistant
Babyteeth
Bad Education
Birds of Prey
Da 5 Bloods
Emma
Eurovision
First Cow
Shirley
Swallow
The Vast of Night
The Whistlers

Robert Koehler (Film Comment)

Liberte
Vitalina Varela
The Wild Goose Lake
I Was At Home, But…
Martin Eden
Bacurau
Yourself and Yours
The Lodge
The Whistlers
Joan of Arc

Richard Lawson (Vanity Fair)

The Assistant
Bacurau
Bad Education
Da 5 Bloods
First Cow
Fourteen
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley
The Vast of Night
Vitalina Varela

David Lynch (Local Memphis)

Bad Education
Beanpole
Da 5 Bloods
Fourteen
I’m No Longer Here
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley
The Assistant

Joey Magidson (Hollywood News)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Way Back
The King of Staten Island
Palm Springs
Banana Split
The Invisible Man
Da 5 Bloods
Buffaloed
The Outpost
Crshd

Todd McCarthy (Deadline)

J'Accuse
The Outpost
The King of Staten Island
Bad Education
Greyhound
Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
Beanpole
The Old Guard

Steve Mears (Film Comment)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Tommaso
First Cow
Premature
Driveways
Bacurau
Swallow
Sorry We Missed You
The Assistant
Emma

Jared Mobarak (The Film Stage)

Babyteeth
Shadow of Violence [Calm with Horses]
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Other Lamb
The Rest of Us
Driveways
First Cow
Saint Frances
Bad Education

Darren Mooney (Freelance)

The Invisible Man
The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Assistant
Da 5 Bloods
Bad Education

David Marin-Guzman (Australian Financial Review)

Color out of Space
The Platform
The Vast of Night
The King of Staten Island
The Invisible Man
Wasp Network

Jackson Murphy (Freelance)

Bad Education
My Darling Vivian
Driveways
Stargirl
Maronas Fantastic Tale Online

Matt Neglia (Next Best Picture)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Babyteeth
Rewind
The Invisible Man
Buffaloed
Shirley
Onward
The King Of Staten Island
Da 5 Bloods
The Vast Of Night

Robert Daniels (Polygon)

The Assistant
Babyteeth
Bad Education
Da 5 Bloods
Emma
First Cow
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley
Swallow
The Vast of Night

Matt Prigge (Freelance)

The Assistant
Bacarau
Beanpole
Da 5 Bloods
First Cow
Fourteen
The Invisible Man
Shirley
Sorry We Missed You
Spaceship Earth

Claudia Puig (USA Today)

A Regular Woman
Emma
The Painter and the Thief
Rewind
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Assistant
Blow the Man Down
On The Record
I’m No Longer Here
Tigertail

Mara Reinstein (US Weekly)

Palm Springs
Hamilton
The Invisible Man
Babyteeth
Onward
Eurovision
How to Build a Girl
Emma
The High Note
After Parkland

Michael Roffman (Consequences of Sound)

The Invisible Man
Da 5 Bloods
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Birds of Prey
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
Emma
Shirley
The Trip to Greece
Capone
Bad Education

Jordan Ruimy (World of Reel)

Bad Education
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
First Cow
The Invisible Man
Young Ahmed
Bacurau
The Assistant
Incitement
The Lodge
Palm Springs

Nick Schager (Esquire)

First Cow
The Wild Goose Lake
The Assistant
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Vast of Night
Saint Maud
Gretel and Hansel
Bacurau
Vitalina Varela
Rewind

A.O. Scott (The New York Times)

Beanpole
The Half of It
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
The Traitor
Beastie Boys Story

Witney Seibold (Nerdist)

Da 5 Bloods
The Vast of Night
Emma
The Invisible Man
First Cow
Saint Frances
Color Out of Space
Crip Camp
The Half of It
Invisible Life

Matt Singer (Screen Crush)

Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
A Trip to Greece
Bad Education
The Assistant
First Cow
Crazy World
Eurovision
Bacurau
The King of Staten Island

Courtney Small (That Shelf)

Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
Birds of Prey
The Assistant
Tigertail

Jeff Sneider (Collider)

Crip Camp
Tread
Athlete A
The Invisible Man
The Way Back
Bad Education
The Gentlemen
Lost Girls
Onward
Lance

Peter Sobczynski (Roger Ebert)

The Climb
Color Out of Space
Emma
House of Hummingbird
Jumbo
Miss Americana
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Tomasso
The Trip To Greece
The Vast of Night

Collin Souter (WGN Radio)

Sorry We Missed You
Da 5 Bloods
The Vast of Night
Fourteen
Marona’s Fantastic Tale
The Assistant
Bacurau
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Beats
Athlete A
The Invisible Man

Spectrum Culture

Bacurau
Birds of Prey
Blow the Man Down
Color Out of Space
Da 5 Bloods
Fourteen
The Invisible Man
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Onward
Shirley
The Whistlers
The Wild Goose Lake

Prahlad Srihari (FirstPost)

Bad Education
Blow the Man Down
Da 5 Bloods
The Half of It
The Vast of Night

Joe Stemme (Freelance)

Corpus Christi
The Traitor
The Invisible Man
Sorry We Missed You
Young Ahmed

Marlow Stern (Newsweek)

First Cow
Welcome to Chechnya
On the Record
Bacurau
The Vast of Night
Shirley
Lucky Grandma
True History of the Kelly Gang
Rewind
Never Rarely Sometimes Always

David Sterritt (The Criterion Collection)

Sorry We Missed You
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Da 5 Bloods
Shirley
Tommaso
Mr. Jones
Family Romance, LLC
Joan of Arc
A White, White Day
Driveways

Bob Strauss (L.A. Daily News)

Vitalina Varela
Babyteeth
The Truth
Saint Frances

Brian Tallerico (Roger Ebert)

The Assistant
Bacurau
Beastie Boys Story
Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
On the Record
Saint Frances
Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon
Swallow

Peter Travers (Rolling Stone)

Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The King of Staten Island
The Vast of Night
First Cow
Bad Education
Onward
The Assistant
Hamilton

Brian Truitt (USA Today)

Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
The Vast of Night
Hamilton
True History of the Kelly Gang
The Assistant
Bacurau
Tigertail
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley
The Outpost

Kent Turner (Film Forward)

Bacurau
Beats
Corpus Christi
Da 5 Bloods
Disclosure
First Cow
Lucky Grandma
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Sorry We Missed You
South Mountain

Nathan Weinbender (Pacific Northwest Inlander)

And Then We Danced
Bacurau
Crip Camp
Da 5 Bloods
The Invisible Man
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Portrait of A Lady on Fire
Rewind
Sorry We Missed You
A White, White Day

Jeffrey Wells (Hollywood Elsewhere)

J’Accuse
The King of Staten Island
Les Miserables
The Wild Goose Lake
Bad Education

Susan Wloszczyna (Gold Derby)

Blow the Man Down
Bad Education
The Assistant
Swallow
The Old Guard
The Invisible Man
Shirley
Da 5 Bloods
The High Note

George Wolf (Columbus Underground)

Da 5 Bloods
Shirley
Swallow
The Vast of Night
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Capital in the 21st Century
True History of the Kelly Gang
Why Don’t You Just Die
The Lodge
Capone

Alex Zalban (Decider)

Birds of Prey
Da 5 Bloods
The Lovebirds
Emma
A Secret Love
Shirley
Onward
Bad Education
Miss Americana
The Vast of Night

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