Female Film Critics 24/375
A wacko thriller called The Housemaid was one of 2026’s first theatrical releases – now it’s available to rent or buy. Adapted by Rebecca Sonnenshine from the 2022 psychological best-seller by Freida McFadden and directed by Paul Feig, it’s almost stupefying in its idiocy., Despite its many tawdry absurdities, the concept has been greenlit for a sequel, tentatively titled The Housemaid Secrets.
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Sydney Sweeney comes alive in the story of boxer Christy Martin. Directed by David Michôd, Christy tells the story of professional women’s boxer Christy Martin from her small town beginnings to her rise to boxing stardom, along with the battles she was fighting outside of the ring. Christy is a no-holds-barred tale, intertwining the elements of a sports biopic with a dark relationship drama to tell the story of Martin’s trailblazing career.
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Eden is Gilligan’s Island meets Lord of the Flies. Based on “those who survived”, the Ron Howard film is the true story of Dr. Friedrich Ritter and his partner, Dore Strauch, who settled on Floreana Island in the Galapagos to live a better life alone, foraging for themselves while escaping the collapsing economy of WWI Germany. Ritter’s letters home soon became glamorized by the press encouraging others to join “Paradise”. He was the first influencer without meaning to be.
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Immaculate is a conception of the blasphemous kind that takes place in a convent where young women enter, but they never leave.. Set in a remote abbey in the picturesque Italian countryside, Immaculate tells the story of Sister Cecilia, an American nun who decides to leave the tragedies of her childhood behind to start a new life serving with a well established order. However, she soon learns “Satan himself often masquerades as an angel of light.”
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The fourth installment of Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man Universe has spun into theaters and it doesn’t even have Peter Parker in it. That’s because Madame Web is a character from the Spider-Man comics, like Morbius and Venom, not from Spider-Man himself. This film is the origin story of Cassandra Webb, a NYC paramedic who, after an accident, discovers that she not only has a mysterious past, but also psychic powers that come with it. Not all of Madame Web is silky smooth though. Some helpful elements aren’t quite woven securely into the fabric of the story. As blockbuster superhero movies go, this is Marvel Meh, but as a stand alone film with minimal backstory and no sneak peek at what’s to come, Madame Web, with its PG-13 rating, gives young impressionable women strong females to look up to.
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Madame Web, Sony’s latest entry in its ongoing Spider-Man universe, is a tangled mess. Not winkingly fun enough to be camp, it’s an embarrassment of dull action, sloppy plotting, and a protagonist who seems like she wishes she were anywhere else. The context of Madame Web as a film is more interesting than anything onscreen. Sony legally must churn out something related to Spider-Man every few years or lose the movie rights to the friendly neighborhood web-slinger. Sometimes that generates pop culture magic, but Madame Web essentially kicks the rights issue down the road until another project like this year’s Kraven the Hunter arrives, further enmeshing Spider-Man within Sony’s clutches. Although Spidey can’t legally untangle himself, viewers at least can tap out—and should.
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