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Week of November 9 to November 15, 2026. People are opening these. The number says whether your house should. Pick one to put on. Then stop.
The whole house is up. Best means 60 or higher, and not a horror picture. Trending still shows the low scores, so you can leave them.
People are opening thisClayface2026 · 33 · Leave itOut in theaters. Some people want to see it again. Others are already done with the script.An actor loses his face, takes an untested cure, and spends what is left of him on revenge.Leave it off tonight.Warner Bros.
Put this onTenzing2026 · 78 · Worth an evening, then talkThe climb is the work, and they finally wrote Tenzing back into it.Name the person whose work this house has been calling help.Apple
The show people are onBelow2026 · 78 · Worth an evening, then talkA father, a boat, and a town. The scare is extra. The duty is the point.NetflixTrending
What people are posting about
A game is loud on the feeds this week. The list here is the movies and shows we have already scored.
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Verity (2026)35 · Leave itThe manuscript is the danger. So is standing too near the husband.A hired writer finds another woman's notes, and cannot tell a confession from a book.Amazon MGM
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)46 · Watch it awake, or skip itThe character is sound. A new chapter still has to earn the old line about responsibility.Another suit, another day. The offer is the neighborhood kid who is supposed to go home.Prime Video
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)69 · Worth an evening, then talkA man who loves his own holiday enough to stop counterfeiting someone else's.The king of Halloween tries to run Christmas and learns the two are not the same craft.Prime Video
- 5It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)65 · Worth an evening, then talkA boy believes a foolish thing and will not drop it to be liked. Put it on. The rocks are the point.Linus keeps a vigil in a pumpkin patch, and the rest of the block goes out for candy.Prime Video
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East of Eden (2026)71 · Worth an evening, then talkSteinbeck's old question, still the right one: thou mayest.The Trask family, retold: love and betrayal, duty and free will, against a hard stretch of American history.Netflix - 7
Lanterns (2026)61 · Watch it awake, or skip itThe power is not the point. The dead in the town are.Two officers with a ring that can do almost anything are sent to a killing in a Nebraska town.HBO
Best new movies
New films that clear the meter
Last year and this year. Highest score first. A new poster is not a reason.
- 1Tenzing (2026)78 · Worth an evening, then talkThe climb is the work, and they finally wrote Tenzing back into it.A Sherpa who has been hired to carry is put on the team, and the mountain is a sacred thing, not a trophy.Apple
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David (2025)76 · Worth an evening, then talkThe old story, told for children without sanding off the God who sends him.A shepherd boy is anointed, faces a giant, and is not allowed to forget that the victory was not his idea.Netflix - 3
Sense and Sensibility (2026)75 · Worth an evening, then talkA smaller cottage, kept, is worth more than a great house withheld.Three sisters lose the house, and the steady one will not take a man she thinks has lied.Focus Features
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Klara and the Sun (2026)68 · Worth an evening, then talkBought affection still leaves the household to pay love’s real cost.A solar-powered girl is purchased to love a sick child in a future that already prices care.Not named in the listing - 5
The Sheep Detectives (2026)68 · Worth an evening, then talkA good shepherd, a real death, a mystery a family can bear. Keep it.A shepherd who read mysteries to his flock is killed, and the sheep try to find out who.Prime Video
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Moana (Live Action) (2026)66 · Worth an evening, then talkA second production does not raise the score. The charge is still to go and to return.The same voyage again: a daughter leaves the island, learns the ocean, and comes back to her people.Disney+
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The Social Reckoning (2026)66 · Worth an evening, then talkThe work was looking. The courage was carrying the papers out.A Facebook engineer takes the company's own papers to a reporter.Columbia
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Heart of the Beast (2026)65 · Worth an evening, then talkHe does not get home. He gets the dog into someone else's care.A man and his dog walk out of a wreck in Alaska, and he spends the last of himself getting the dog to a road.Paramount
Best new TV shows
New shows worth one episode
One episode. Then leave the rest of the hour alone.
- 1Below (2026)78 · Worth an evening, then talkA father, a boat, and a town. The scare is extra. The duty is the point.A Newfoundland fisherman fights a thing in the water to keep his son, his town, and a vanishing trade.Netflix
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Adolescence (2025)78 · Worth an evening, then talkThe rare one that tells the truth about a boy lost in the feed. Sit with it.A thirteen-year-old is arrested for a terrible crime, and a house discovers what it did not see.Netflix - 3East of Eden (2026)71 · Worth an evening, then talkSteinbeck's old question, still the right one: thou mayest.The Trask family, retold: love and betrayal, duty and free will, against a hard stretch of American history.Netflix
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The Pitt (2025)69 · Worth an evening, then talkThe work is the show. Tired people stay responsible. Adults only.One emergency-room shift in Pittsburgh, counted in patients, not in feelings.Max - 5
Win or Lose (2025)69 · Worth an evening, then talkLosing, a parent, a teammate, and the truth that they are not living the same week. Keep it.The week of a middle-school softball championship, told once from each person who has to get through it.Disney+
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Dark Matter (2026)66 · Worth an evening, then talkHe learns every other life costs the one he already has.Physicist Jason Dessen is pulled into multiverse versions of his life and fights to reclaim the real home he already had.Apple TV
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House of David (2025)64 · Watch it awake, or skip itScripture as a drama. Use it only with the chapter open beside it.The boy who will be king, the mad king on the throne, and the prophet who already knows.Prime Video - 8
Leonard and Hungry Paul (2025)64 · Watch it awake, or skip itGentle men who have to decide to enter the world. Rare, and on the side of ordinary love.Two quiet friends. One of them starts to court a woman and to leave the house.Prime Video
Most popular TV
Shows the country is already in
The order is the public popular list, limited to shows we have already scored. A crowd is not a reason.
- 1Below (2026)78 · Worth an evening, then talkA father, a boat, and a town. The scare is extra. The duty is the point.A Newfoundland fisherman fights a thing in the water to keep his son, his town, and a vanishing trade.Netflix
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Crystal Lake (2026)36 · Leave itThe grief is real. The show is walking it toward a killing.A boy drowns at a summer camp. His mother will not accept it, and the town starts to pay.Peacock
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VisionQuest (2026)48 · Watch it awake, or skip itThe only part that belongs on this desk is a father deciding the boy is his. The rest is a hunt.A made man with a bounty on him meets a boy who may be the son he thought he had lost.Disney+
- 4East of Eden (2026)71 · Worth an evening, then talkSteinbeck's old question, still the right one: thou mayest.The Trask family, retold: love and betrayal, duty and free will, against a hard stretch of American history.Netflix
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The Final Problem (2026)51 · Watch it awake, or skip itThe performance was the alibi. The name was stolen.An old actor who once played Holmes is stranded with a death, and the dead woman is not who the room thinks.Netflix
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Carrie (2026)29 · Leave itThe cruelty is real. The answer the story loves is still the slaughter.A bullied girl, a mother who calls every want a sin, and a power that answers the shame.Prime Video - 8
War (2026)35 · Leave itA broken vow is the case. The lawyers are billing it.Two London firms fight a divorce between a billionaire and a film star, and the show's own line is that winning is everything.HBO
The last decade
What 2016 to 2026 actually watched
The first eight of the hundred, in the order of the crowd. The full list, films and shows together, is on its own shelf. A crowd is not a reason.
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Avengers: Endgame (2019)56 · Watch it awake, or skip itA man spends his life to restore other people's children. The three-hour fight is the toll you pay to hear that sentence.The ones who survived a vanishing try to undo it, and one of them does not come back.Walt Disney
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)56 · Watch it awake, or skip itThe warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.A father who burned a home for a people tries to hide his children in a new one, and the company follows.20th Century
- 4Ne Zha 2 (2025)58 · Watch it awake, or skip itA boy refuses the sentence heaven wrote. The scale is the product. The refusal is the story.A demon child, bound by a fate he did not choose, is told the heavens have already filed him as the threat.Beijing Enlight
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018)46 · Watch it awake, or skip itThey show up and lose. His theory is a massacre with a sentence attached.A man with a theory of balance sets out to spend half of every life, and the heroes do not stop him.Walt Disney
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)51 · Watch it awake, or skip itHe wanted the easy repair. The film, at the last minute, makes him give the life up.A boy tries to fix his life with a spell, and the spell will not give his life back.Sony
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Zootopia 2 (2025)64 · Watch it awake, or skip itA partnership and a city that picks its suspect by species. The first film's argument, continued. Worth it.The fox and the rabbit, now partners, have to defend a neighbor the city has already decided is the criminal.Disney+
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Squid Game (2021)29 · Leave itDebt is a real terror. The show turns the terror into a sport and asks you back for another round. Leave it.Hundreds of people in debt are offered a children's game in which the losers are shot, and the winners' prize is everyone else's life.Netflix
Movies in theaters
In a theater this year
A ticket is a night out. The number is the same one you would use on the couch.
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- 3Tenzing (2026)78 · Worth an evening, then talkThe climb is the work, and they finally wrote Tenzing back into it.A Sherpa who has been hired to carry is put on the team, and the mountain is a sacred thing, not a trophy.Apple
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- 5Klara and the Sun (2026)68 · Worth an evening, then talkBought affection still leaves the household to pay love’s real cost.A solar-powered girl is purchased to love a sick child in a future that already prices care.Not named in the listing
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Whalefall (2026)64 · Watch it awake, or skip itThe spectacle is the whale. The story is a letter he would not read.A son dives for what the sea kept of his father, and a whale swallows him with an hour of air.20th Century
Movies at home
Already on a shelf you have
Netflix, Prime, Max, and the rest. We link the score. We do not press play.
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Cabrini (2024)83 · Sit with itA woman, a vow, and an institution she builds on purpose. Keep it.An Italian nun in New York builds a house for children the city had decided were someone else's problem.Pure Flix
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Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024)83 · Sit with itA congregation that did the hard form of the sermon. Keep it, and count the cost.A small East Texas church decides to take in the children the county cannot place.Pure Flix
- 3David (2025)76 · Worth an evening, then talkThe old story, told for children without sanding off the God who sends him.A shepherd boy is anointed, faces a giant, and is not allowed to forget that the victory was not his idea.Netflix
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Unsung Hero (2024)75 · Worth an evening, then talkA mother, a failure, and a household that keeps the meals. The music is the extra.An Australian family lands in America with no money, six children, and a mother who will not let the house dissolve.Pure Flix - 5Ordinary Angels (2024)71 · Worth an evening, then talkA neighbor who will not stay in her lane. The drinking is not romantic. Keep it.A hairdresser in Louisville decides a sick child is her business, and then has to become someone who can be trusted with that.Pure Flix
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Moana 2 (2024)70 · Worth an evening, then talkThe same vocation, a wider map. Less surprising, still about a people and not a selfie.Moana sails again, this time to find other people and break the isolation of the sea.Disney+
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Best movies of all time
The highest scores on the desk
Not a trophy list and not a decade. The meter, from the top.
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A Man for All Seasons (1966)89 · Sit with itKeep it. Silence, law, and a conscience that will not be managed.Thomas More will swear what he can, and will not swear what would sell his soul, and the state wants the signature.Prime Video
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)85 · Sit with itThe household, the neighbor, the quiet no to a predator. Keep this one in the house.A man who stayed in his town believes his life came to nothing. The town disagrees.Film - 3
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Master and Commander (2003)81 · Sit with itThe closest thing on a screen to the standard itself. A ship is a house with a hull.A British captain and a ship's doctor chase a French privateer, and keep a crew alive doing it.Film
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)81 · Sit with itThe courage is taking the burden. The point is not to wield it.A hobbit is handed a ring that must not be used, and eight others walk with him as far as they can.New Line
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)81 · Sit with itKeep it. Courage is a man going to the courthouse when he knows the verdict.A lawyer defends a man his town has already convicted, and his children watch what it costs.Prime Video
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The Prince of Egypt (1998)80 · Sit with itScripture, drawn seriously. One of the few films on this shelf that knows God is not a character they invented.A prince of Egypt learns he is a Hebrew, and is sent back to tell Pharaoh to let a people go.Netflix
The shelves do not send a watch history here. A high score is not an order to keep going. One title, then the set goes off.