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The Ringer

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins review the movies you need to see. Plus: Top 5s, Movie Drafts, Oscars analysis, and more. Subscribe to Sean's newsletter, Projections, here.

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  1. A Best Picture Power Rankings Shake-up, and the Rocky Cosplay of ‘I Play Rocky.’ Plus: Ron Howard! 2:31:41
  2. The Terror of ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ and Sean’s Favorite Godzilla Movies. Plus: The Joy of ‘Club Kid,’ With Jordan Firstman! 2:12:02
  3. ‘Wild Horse Nine’ Is a Hilarious American Tragedy. Plus: ‘Possible Love’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’. 1:46:19
  4. The Gene Hackman Hall of Fame 3:04:45
  5. ‘Wildwood,’ ‘Wicker,’ and 10 Movies We Missed! Plus: Travis Knight! 2:39:43
  6. The Halloween Movie Draft 2:01:03
  7. The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2026 and ‘Clayface.’ Plus, ‘Street Fighter’ With Shea Serrano! 2:38:05
  8. ‘You Can See Everything’ Mania and Best Picture Power Rankings. Plus: ‘Whalefall,’ ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ and Kyle MacLachlan! 2:34:40
  9. You Must See ‘You Can See Everything.’ Plus: Judd Apatow! 2:46:15
  10. The Ben Affleck Hall of Fame and ‘Animals.’ Plus: ‘Other Mommy’ Is Jump-Scary and Silly 2:09:46
  11. ‘The Social Reckoning’ Is No ‘The Social Network,’ and the Top Five Most Unnecessary Legasequels. Plus: The Best Movies at NYFF! 1:54:00
  12. ‘Verity’ Is Trash. But Is It Good Trash? Plus: ‘Digger’ Flopped and Warner Bros. Is No More. 1:38:21
  13. Is ‘Digger’ the Tom Cruise Movie We’ve Been Waiting For? Plus: Our Top 10 Tom Cruise Performances. 1:54:12
  14. The Baseball Movie Draft 1:44:19
  15. Old Movies vs. New Movies: How ‘Avengers: Endgame Encore’ Beat Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, and an Awesome Weekend Movie Lineup 2:23:00
  16. ‘Primetime’ Is a Robert Pattinson Transformation and the Nightmare Media Movie of Our Time, With Lance Oppenheim! 1:52:56
  17. The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’ 1:45:18
  18. 2026 Best Picture Power Rankings, and the Best Movies at TIFF. Plus: Zach Cregger on ‘Resident Evil’! 2:13:23
  19. ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! 1:41:57
  20. The Sandra Bullock Movie Star Playbook and ‘Practical Magic 2.’ Plus: ‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger.’ 1:37:18
  21. The Winners and Losers of the Summer Movies Came Roaring Back. Plus: ‘Hope,’ ‘The Uprising,’ and 10 More We Missed. 3:03:44
  22. The 10 Best Movies at the Telluride and Venice Film Festivals. Plus: Nathan Fielder’s Stunning Elizabeth Holmes Doc. 1:53:15
  23. The Black-and-Chrome Action Movie Pack and ‘Onslaught’ With Michael Biehn and Adam Wingard! 1:57:58
  24. 10 Movies We Can’t Wait to See This Fall 1:32:05
  25. The Ridley Scott Movie Rankings and ‘The Dog Stars’ 1:59:53
  26. The Flops Movie Draft 1:54:08
  27. ‘Tony’ and the Top 5 Coming-of-Age Movies, With Matt Johnson! 1:49:44
  28. ‘The End of Oak Street’ and the Top Five 'Twilight Zone' Movies. Plus: Will Poulter! 2:36:24
  29. The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! 1:57:30
  30. The "Ask Sean Anything" Mailbag. Plus: The Amazing Life of a Character Actor, with Patrick Fischler. 2:37:46
  31. 'One Night Only' and the 21st Century Rom-Com Canon 2:14:56
  32. The Canadian Movie Draft Live from Toronto! 1:57:46
  33. ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and the Spider-Man Movie Rankings 2:10:32
  34. Sex, Hell, and 10 Movies We Missed This Summer. Plus: Gregg Araki! 2:26:08
  35. The Summer Movie Mailbag 1:45:47
  36. The Triumph of ‘The Odyssey,’ and the Christopher Nolan Movie Rankings 1:56:19
  37. ‘The Odyssey’ Is Massive and Magnificent 2:10:38
  38. The Epic Movie Draft 1:54:34
  39. ‘The Invite’ Is a Hilarious Social Nightmare, With Olivia Wilde! 1:37:46
  40. The Diane Keaton Hall of Fame 2:21:47
  41. The 2026 Movie Auction Returns! 2:27:20
  42. The 10 Best Movies of 2026 … So Far 2:42:12
  43. The Comic Book Movie Death Rattle and ‘Supergirl.’ Plus: ‘Jackass: Best and Last’ Goes Out With a Bang. 1:23:24
  44. The 2010 Mega-Movie Re-Draft 2:58:22
  45. ‘Toy Story 5’ and the ‘Toy Story’ Movie Rankings. Plus: ‘The Death of Robin Hood’ and the Top Five Robin Hoods. 1:32:54
  46. The 21st-Century Steven Spielberg Rankings. Plus: ‘Office Romance’ and ‘The Furious.’ 1:36:45
  47. ‘Disclosure Day’ Is Steven Spielberg’s True Believer Manifesto. Kneel! 2:02:34
  48. Mel at 100: The Mel Brooks Movie Rankings. Plus: ‘Scary Movie’ Is Terrifyingly Awful 1:54:29
  49. The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! 2:23:52
  50. We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed! 1:58:39