There are moments when cinema captures life in such a pristine way that fiction strikes us as if it were reality. The President’s Cake (2025) by Hasan Hadi is the perfect example. The deeper we go into its narrative, the more we realize we are not watching a traditional work of fiction. Everyday life is presented so intimately that we struggle to believe we are witnessing a carefully constructed mise-en-scène.
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The first rule of content creation: give the audience what they want.
Faces of Death (2026) is an uncomfortable but necessary film. Daniel Goldhaber confronts us with the idea that nothing is more disturbing than the content we consume daily on social media. No horror imagined by fiction comes close to the micro-videos that flow through our devices, disguised as harmless by the screen’s illusion of distance. Goldhaber accuses us of not being innocent spectators; we are guilty voyeurs.
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Hollywood criticizing itself is something we’ve seen many times in cinema. In that sense, Outcome (2026) offers nothing new. Jonah Hill writes and directs a comedy that satirizes the industry by exposing its modern problems and the methods executives use for crisis management. The idea serves as an interesting starting point. Still, its execution is bland, and the film delivers only isolated moments that fail to sustain either the story or the message the director aims to convey.
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Bionico will do anything to please his Flaca. Calvita refuses to accept losing his friend over a woman, while I can’t stop imagining Bionico’s Bachata as the Dominican Trainspotting. The cold streets of Edinburgh dissolve into the sweat of a Santo Domingo neighborhood, and we no longer have Danny Boyle’s Renton, but Bionico from the Mentes Fritas crew. From its opening sequence, the film signals a singular, frenetic journey that pushes us to the edge of the absurd.
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Setting the bar too high is always a risky bet. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) has become (somewhat unfairly) a victim of its own success. What the first film achieved in 2023 was legendary. The animated adaptation of one of the most famous video games of all time combined the nostalgia of a character who has transcended multiple generations of consoles with the classic hero’s journey, resonating with audiences beyond the gaming world. After a failed attempt with a live-action film in 1993, it took 30 years for Mario and Luigi to shine on the big screen truly.
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