Monday July 20

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: A Separation A married couple in Tehran reach an impasse: Simin wants to leave Iran for their daughter's future, Nader won't abandon his father, who has Alzheimer's. On this day Spirited Away at 25: Miyazaki's bathhouse still has no equal Spirited Away opened in Japan on 20 July 2001, and this month marks 25 years since Hayao Miyazaki sent a ten-year-old girl through a tunnel into a world of bathhouse spirits. Trailer drop Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender: trailer confirms a July arrival The trailer confirms Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender lands July 25, 2026 on Paramount+, with a San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel and fan screening the two days before.

Sunday July 19

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: Inside Llewyn Davis It is January 1961, and Llewyn Davis is sleeping on other people's couches, carrying his guitar and, unexpectedly, a friend's escaped cat through a freezing Greenwich Village. Hidden gem Hidden gem: Support the Girls (2018) Support the Girls is a workplace comedy for anyone who has spent a shift holding a bad day together for other people. Upcoming this week What to watch this week: 19–25 July This week isn't about new premieres so much as a pile-up of arrivals: several films that opened in cinemas across the spring and early summer are landing on home platforms within days of each other.

Saturday July 18

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Witch A Puritan family is banished from their New England plantation over a religious dispute and forced to build a new life at the edge of an unmapped forest. Hidden gem Hidden gem: The Rider (2018) The Rider rewards viewers drawn to films that blur the line between documentary and drama, and who don't need incident to feel invested. On this day The Dark Knight, 18 years on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight opened in the United States on July 18, 2008, the second chapter in the trilogy that began with Batman Begins.

Friday July 17

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: Do the Right Thing Do the Right Thing plays out over a single day on one block in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy, and the heat is the plot as much as any character is. Countdown Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender: 8 days to go "Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender" arrives July 25, 2026 on Paramount+, eight days from today, with a San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel and fan screening in the days before. Countdown Spider-Man: Brand New Day: 14 days to go "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" opens in theaters on July 31, 2026, two weeks from today.

Thursday July 16

On this day Inception, 16 years on Inception premiered on July 8, 2010, in London before opening wide in the United States on July 16, 2010, giving Christopher Nolan his first fully original blockbuster after three Batman-adjacent studio films. What to watch tonight Watch tonight: Before Sunrise Jesse, an American backpacker, talks a stranger named Celine into leaving a train in Vienna for one night before his flight home.

Wednesday July 15

On this day On This Day: Die Hard turns 38 Die Hard opened in Los Angeles on July 12, 1988, ahead of its wide US release on July 20, and thirty-eight years on it remains the film against which every subsequent siege thriller is measured. What to watch tonight Watch tonight: Arrival Arrival opens with a linguist, Dr. Louise Banks, pulled from an ordinary lecture hall into the aftermath of a global shock: twelve alien vessels have appeared over scattered points on Earth, and no government knows why.

Tuesday July 14

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Lobster The Lobster imagines a near-future where being single is treated as a malfunction to be corrected. Trailer drop First look: Spider-Man: Brand New Day The first trailer for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" confirms Tom Holland's Peter Parker returns July 31, 2026, in the fourth MCU Spider-Man film, and the first not directed by Jon Watts. Now streaming Backrooms: now streaming Backrooms arrived in theatres from A24 in May, became the studio's highest-grossing release ever, and is now out for digital rental or purchase through Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, Google TV and YouTube, after its PVOD window opened on July 14.

Monday July 13

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Hunt (2020) Twelve strangers wake up gagged in a clearing, with no memory of how they got there and a stocked cache of weapons scattered nearby.

Sunday July 12

Upcoming this week What to watch this week: 13–19 July This week belongs almost entirely to one film. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens wide on 17 July after a scarcity-driven rollout built around IMAX 70mm exclusivity, and everything else on the slate plays a supporting role. Hidden gem Hidden gem: Frances Ha Frances Ha follows a 27-year-old apprentice dancer in New York whose life refuses to assemble into the shape she expected: no steady job, no permanent address, an increasingly distant best friend. What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Apartment C.C. Baxter is a mid-level insurance clerk who has figured out the fastest route up the corporate ladder: lending his apartment key to the executives who need somewhere private to conduct their affairs.

Saturday July 11

Hidden gem Hidden gem: Hunt for the Wilderpeople Taika Waititi's 2016 adventure comedy follows Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison), a city foster kid dumped on a rural New Zealand couple, and his reluctant bushman guardian Hec (Sam Neill), after a sudden loss forces the pair into the wilderness together. What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Raid A ten-man police squad enters a rundown Jakarta tenement to arrest the drug lord who controls it floor by floor, and within minutes the building itself turns against them: locked stairwells, a compromised position, and dozens of tenants and enforcers between the team and the exit.

Friday July 10

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: After Hours Paul Hackett, a bored Manhattan word processor, takes a chance on a woman he meets in a diner and heads downtown to SoHo for what looks like a low-stakes date. Countdown Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender: 15 days to go "Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender" arrives July 25, 2026 on Paramount+, with a San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel and fan screening in the days before. Countdown Spider-Man: Brand New Day: 21 days to go "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" opens in theaters on July 31, 2026, three weeks from today.

Thursday July 9

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Wailing A stranger arrives in a quiet mountain village outside Gokseong, and soon after, its residents start turning on their families with a violence no one can explain.

Wednesday July 8

What to watch tonight Watch tonight: The Grand Budapest Hotel The film opens as a nested memory: a writer recalls the elderly owner of a once-grand Alpine hotel, who recalls his youth as lobby boy to its legendary concierge, Gustave H.