9 New Movies Worth Watching This Week: October 16, 2026

The most buzzed-about new release is 'You Can See Everything,' an A24 documentary in which comedian Nathan Fielder and filmmaker Lance Oppenheim sat down with Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes — before she began her prison sentence — for a series of intense, self-aware conversations. Critics call it funny yet unsettling, with the film doubling as a meditation on truth, reality, and the strange power dynamic between documentary filmmakers and their subjects.

Also generating serious attention is 'La Bola Negra,' a Spanish festival hit from directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. The Netflix production spans nearly 90 years — from the 1930s to 2017 — weaving together the lives of three gay men across generations, touching on love, shame, family, and ambition across a runtime of just over two and a half hours. On the big-screen action front, 'Street Fighter' arrives from director Kitao Sakurai, with David Dastmalchian stepping in as crime boss M. Bison. Critics note that Sakurai smartly leans into the arcade-game origins of the source material, using animation and tonal playfulness to flesh out the franchise's lore rather than playing it straight.

For prestige fare, 'Tenzing' — streaming on Apple TV — tells the story of Tenzing Norgay (played by Genden Phuntsok) and his historic Everest summit alongside Sir Edmund Hillary, portrayed by Tom Hiddleston. The film is described as restrained and British in tone, more a character study of obsession than a rousing adventure. Meanwhile, Georgia Oakley's 'Sense and Sensibility' brings a fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's debut novel to theaters, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles earning praise for their naturalistic sisterly chemistry as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

On the lighter and stranger ends of the spectrum: 'California Schemin'' follows two Scottish lads from Dundee who fake American identities to break into rap, directed by and starring James McAvoy as the record exec who discovers them — a crowd-pleaser even if critics find it predictable. 'Sacrifice,' streaming on Netflix, pairs Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Evans as eco-terrorists plotting to hurl elites into a volcano, a high-concept comedy from director Romain Gavras that critics feel loses its satirical bite in style over substance. 'Whalefall,' adapted from Daniel Kraus's novel, follows a man (Austin Abrams) swallowed by a sperm whale while searching for his father's remains — visually committed but hampered by a screenplay critics found lacking. And 'Love of Your Life,' on Prime Video, stars Margaret Qualley in a romantic tearjerker that reviewers admit is unabashedly manipulative but effective.