| April 10, 2026 
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Hey, movie fans! Which video game-based movie might you be checking out this weekend? Will you be adding to Mario’s already overflowing coin collection and seeing “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” or heading (over and over again) down the mysterious train station corridor featured in “Exit 8”? Our critic thinks you should pick that corridor. In her review of “Exit 8,” Manohla Dargis called the film “a diverting existential puzzler about wrong choices and right moves.” If you want even more game movies, Hollywood’s got you. “Mortal Kombat II” opens next month, and a new version of “Resident Evil,” directed by the “Weapons” filmmaker Zach Cregger will arrive in the fall. The reporter Emmanuel Morgan recently wrote about the ways studios keep courting gamers, hoping not to sour them on these big-screen adaptations. If you’re seeking a movie unrelated to gaming, you have plenty of options. “Faces of Death,” anyone? A new horror film that incorporates the lore of the 1978 cult movie is out, and it has a few things to say. In her review, the critic Alissa Wilkinson called it “a thinker of a thriller that, even when it heads into pure slasher territory, still has its brain turned on.” If you’re in the mood for something a lot more tender and a lot less bloody, there’s the rom-com “You, Me & Tuscany,” with Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page. Plus there’s the sharp new film from Steven Soderbergh, “The Christophers,” which Wilkinson calls “a sparkling, funny, wise movie about two painters, both of whom consider themselves failures.” Enjoy the movies! |
