Saturday July 18

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Witch A Puritan family is banished from their New England plantation over a religious dispute and forced to build a new life at the edge of an unmapped forest. Hidden gem Hidden gem: The Rider (2018) The Rider rewards viewers drawn to films that blur the line between documentary and drama, and who don't need incident to feel invested. On this day The Dark Knight, 18 years on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight opened in the United States on July 18, 2008, the second chapter in the trilogy that began with Batman Begins.

Friday July 17

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: Do the Right Thing Do the Right Thing plays out over a single day on one block in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy, and the heat is the plot as much as any character is. Countdown Spider-Man: Brand New Day: 14 days to go "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" opens in theaters on July 31, 2026, two weeks from today. Countdown Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender: 8 days to go "Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender" arrives July 25, 2026 on Paramount+, eight days from today, with a San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel and fan screening in the days before.

Thursday July 16

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: Before Sunrise Jesse, an American backpacker, talks a stranger named Celine into leaving a train in Vienna for one night before his flight home. On this day Inception, 16 years on Inception premiered on July 8, 2010, in London before opening wide in the United States on July 16, 2010, giving Christopher Nolan his first fully original blockbuster after a run of studio films that included two Batman pictures.

Wednesday July 15

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: Arrival Arrival opens with a linguist, Dr. Louise Banks, pulled from an ordinary lecture hall into the aftermath of a global shock: twelve alien vessels have appeared over scattered points on Earth, and no government knows why. On this day Die Hard turns 38 Die Hard opened in Los Angeles on July 12, 1988, ahead of its wide US release on July 20, and thirty-eight years on it remains the film against which every subsequent siege thriller is measured.

Tuesday July 14

Countdown Spider-Man: Brand New Day: 17 days to go "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" opens in theaters on July 31, 2026, seventeen days from today. It is the fourth MCU Spider-Man film with Tom Holland's Peter Parker, and the first not directed by Jon Watts. Now at home Backrooms: now at home Backrooms arrived in theaters from A24 in May, became the studio's highest-grossing release ever, and after 46 days in theaters is now available to rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google TV and YouTube, with its digital window opening on July 14. What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Lobster The Lobster imagines a near-future where being single is treated as a malfunction to be corrected.

Monday July 13

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Hunt (2020) Twelve strangers wake up gagged in a clearing, with no memory of how they got there and a stocked cache of weapons scattered nearby.

Sunday July 12

Upcoming this week What to watch this week: July 13 to 19 This week belongs almost entirely to one film. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens wide on July 17 after a scarcity-driven rollout built around IMAX 70mm exclusivity, and everything else on the slate plays a supporting role. Hidden gem Hidden gem: Frances Ha Frances Ha follows a 27-year-old apprentice dancer in New York whose life refuses to assemble into the shape she expected: no steady job, no permanent address, an increasingly distant best friend. What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Apartment C.C. Baxter is a mid-level insurance clerk who has figured out the fastest route up the corporate ladder: lending his apartment key to the executives who need somewhere private to conduct their affairs.

Saturday July 11

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Raid A ten-man police squad enters a rundown Jakarta tenement to arrest the drug lord who controls it floor by floor, and within minutes the building itself turns against them: locked stairwells, a compromised position, and dozens of tenants and enforcers between the team and the exit. Hidden gem Hidden gem: Hunt for the Wilderpeople Taika Waititi's 2016 adventure comedy follows Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison), a city foster kid dumped on a rural New Zealand couple, and his reluctant bushman guardian Hec (Sam Neill), after a sudden loss forces the pair into the wilderness together.

Friday July 10

Countdown Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender: 15 days to go "Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender" arrives July 25, 2026 on Paramount+, fifteen days from today, with a San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel and fan screening in the days before. Countdown Spider-Man: Brand New Day: 21 days to go "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" opens in theaters on July 31, 2026, three weeks from today. What to watch tonight Watch tonight: After Hours Paul Hackett, a bored Manhattan word processor, takes a chance on a woman he meets in a diner and heads downtown to SoHo for what looks like a low-stakes date.

Thursday July 9

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Wailing A stranger arrives in a quiet mountain village outside Gokseong, and soon after, its residents start turning on their families with a violence no one can explain.

Wednesday July 8

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Grand Budapest Hotel The film opens as a nested memory: a writer recalls the elderly owner of a once-grand Alpine hotel, who recalls his youth as lobby boy to its legendary concierge, Gustave H.

Tuesday July 7

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: In the Mood for Love Two neighbors move into adjoining Hong Kong apartments in 1962 on the same day, their furniture briefly mixed up by the movers. Upcoming this week Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle streams from July 28 A new trailer accompanying Crunchyroll's Anime Expo 2026 panel confirms that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle will stream worldwide from July 28, 2026, nearly a year after its Japanese theatrical bow.

Monday July 6

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: Lost in Translation Two Americans drift through Tokyo on opposite schedules of jet lag and marriage. Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a fading movie star shooting a whiskey commercial, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a philosophy graduate left alone by her photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi), keep colliding in the same Park Hyatt hotel bar.

Sunday July 5

Upcoming this week What to watch this week: July 6 to 12 This week is shaped by one wide release doing the heavy lifting for theaters, with a horror counterprogrammer filling the other lane. What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Lives of Others East Berlin, 1984. A Stasi captain named Gerd Wiesler is assigned to bug the apartment of playwright Georg Dreyman and monitor his relationship with actress Christa-Maria Sieland, on the suspicion that Dreyman's loyalty to the state is thinner than it appears. Hidden gem Hidden gem: The Florida Project Sean Baker's 2017 drama follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her young mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) through a summer at the Magic Castle, a purple budget motel a few miles from Walt Disney World, watched over by manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe).