New & Notable Movies: Week of September 14

Cregger’s Resident Evil opens Friday, plus Hawke and Crowe in the woods, Ronan as a teacher who snaps, and the Rushdie documentary.

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Resident Evil (2026), Zach Cregger
A medical courier (Austin Abrams) walks into a hospital delivery in Raccoon City, and over one night the city comes down around him. Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons) directs the reboot of the video game, opening Friday, September 18, in IMAX. Horror from a director who has already proven he can…
The Weight (2026), Padraic McKinley
In 1933 Oregon, a father (Ethan Hawke) is pulled from his daughter and sent to a work camp, where the warden (Russell Crowe) offers a deal: smuggle gold through a hundred miles of woods, or never see her again. Padraic McKinley directs; it played Sundance and opens Friday, September 18. A…
Bad Apples (2026), Jonatan Etzler
Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) plays a private-school teacher who decides the problem child is a problem she will solve herself. Jonatan Etzler directs the dark comedy, which came out of the Toronto festival and opens Friday, September 18. Ronan mean and funny instead of noble, for viewers who have…
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026), Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney (Going Clear) documents the day in 2022 when Salman Rushdie was stabbed onstage at Chautauqua, drawing on Rushdie's own memoir and footage his wife shot. Opens Thursday, September 17. Not a true-crime snack: a film about a novelist who has lived under a death sentence since 1989, and…
The History of Concrete (2026), John Wilson
John Wilson (How To with John Wilson) builds a feature out of Hallmark-movie class, Roman concrete, and the oldest concrete road in America, and the joke is that he takes all of it seriously. Opens Friday, September 18. The same brain as the HBO show, with a longer running time and the same habit…
Practical Magic 2 (2026), Susanne Bier
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return to the Owens house as the witch sisters from the 1998 original, with Susanne Bier (Bird Box) directing the sequel. It opened Friday, September 11, and reviews are mixed. The first film is a Halloween comfort watch for a lot of people, and this one is in…
Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (2026), Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern
Noel and Liam Gallagher sit for their first joint interview in twenty years, in a concert documentary shot on the 2025 reunion tour. Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern (Meet Me in the Bathroom) direct. It opened Friday, September 11, and is still in IMAX this week. Made for the people whose twenties…
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (2026), Steve Cox, Matthew Walker
Something is ruining the pumpkin patch, and a beast is loose in the woods around Shaun's farm, in stop-motion from Aardman, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit. Steve Cox and Matthew Walker direct. Opens Friday, September 18. A family movie made by hand, with no homework and no lore briefing…
Barbarian (2022), Zach Cregger
A woman arrives at a Detroit rental to find a stranger staying there, and the house has more underneath it than either of them knows. Zach Cregger's 2022 film is the reason Sony handed him Resident Evil. Watch it before Friday, September 18: an ordinary rental, a dark house, and a movie that will…