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‘Cut Off’ One Of The Most Anticipated Films Of 2026 (Part 2)
By Rodrigo Perez
December 16, 2025
If part one of your favorite article of the year—The Playlist’s 150 Most Anticipated Films of 2026— was where we dutifully tipped our hats to the four-quadrant gods — the franchises, the iffy skill issue movies, the IP leviathans and a few pieces of sh*te we don’t really care about but mildly pretend to, for the sake of encapsulating the whole year — then Part Two is where we actually start to cook.
This is the half of the list that smells like real cinema: the auteurs sprinting through their imperial phases, the foreign films that will quietly rearrange your brain at 10 a.m. in Cannes, the microbudget indies held together with dental floss, recycled nipple pasties and trauma, the passion projects that may never see the inside of a proper release window. These are the movies so indie that they might not actually come out, or might not even exist; maybe we just dreamed them into being during a festival comedown fever spike.
So, yes, the big machines are still grinding away in 2026 — but here’s the other story the year is telling: the strange, the personal, the ambitious, the untested. Welcome to Part Two of the 150 Most Anticipated Films of 2026: the deep cuts, the wild cards, and the films we’re already half in love with, sight unseen.
Cut Off comes into play at Number 38:
38. “Cut Off.”
Jonah Hill directs and stars in “Cut Off,” a sharp, character-driven comedy about two spoiled siblings forced to grow up after their parents pull the plug on their fortune. Holl and Kristen Wiig star alongside Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Adriana Barraza, Camila Cabello, Langston Kerman, and Chelsea Peretti in this ensemble farce about entitlement, reinvention, and humiliation in the age of curated wealth. Hill, returning behind the camera after “Mid90s” and “Stutz,” blends cringe humor and emotional honesty as his characters tumble from privilege into absurd survival mode. Produced by Warners, the film aims to fuse biting social commentary with the kind of offbeat warmth and discomfort that defined Hill’s earlier collaborations with indie-minded comedians.
Release Date: July 17, via Warner Bros.
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