Tracking This Year’s Highest-Rated Films: A Guide to 2026’s Critical Consensus

Balle Balle Radio™ Entertainment Desk

A new Resident Evil film is among the 2026 releases drawing critical attention this year, as outlets continue to track and rank the year’s best-reviewed movies by aggregate critic scores.

The film, directed by Zach Cregger and written by Cregger alongside Shay Hatten, is the eighth live-action film in Capcom’s video game adaptation franchise. It features Austin Abrams playing a medical courier caught in a creature outbreak in Raccoon City, with Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser in supporting roles. Cregger’s recent track record, including his horror feature "Weapons," has made his projects a point of interest for critics tracking the genre.

The film appears alongside a wider slate of 2026 titles that reviewers and aggregators have highlighted this year, including "Godzilla Minus Zero," "Wild Horse Nine," and "Club Kid," each carrying critic scores in the 90s on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer. Other titles cited elsewhere this year as among 2026’s best-reviewed include "Project Hail Mary," "Obsession," and "The Sheep Detectives," each also scoring in the mid-90s with critics and audiences alike.

critic aggregator rankings on the Tomatometer are refreshed throughout the year as new reviews arrive as new releases are reviewed and aggregated, meaning a title’s position reflects the state of critical response at the time of publication rather than a fixed, final score.

Studio CarryOnHarry will be watching to see where Cregger’s Resident Evil lands on the Tomatometer once wide critical reviews are in — a reboot of this franchise carries built-in audience interest, but also built-in skepticism given the series’ uneven critical history.

Read more People’s Choice stories on Studio CarryOnHarry. Reporting via Live News Vault.

Press Releases at Studio CarryOnHarry