UPDATED ON October 3, 2026
Looking for your next movie night idea? Each month we bring you a mix of theatrical standouts and streaming premieres — perfect for a night out or a quiet evening in. Here are some of the best new releases for Utah film fans. Keep in mind that studios move release dates, and a few of these get limited or event-only runs, so not everything below will land at every theater along the Wasatch Front — check your local listings before you head out.
Verity
🗓️ Release: October 2 | 🎭 Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: The Colleen Hoover bestseller comes to the screen. A struggling writer (Dakota Johnson) is hired to ghostwrite for a famous novelist and finds an autobiographical manuscript she was never meant to read. Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett co-star; Michael Showalter directs.
Digger (R)
🗓️ Release: October 2 | 🎭 Drama / Dark Comedy | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: Tom Cruise stars for Alejandro G. Iñárritu as the most powerful man in the world, racing to prove he's humanity's savior before the disaster he set loose finishes the job. John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller and Michael Stuhlbarg fill out one of the fall's most unusual casts.
The Social Reckoning (R)
🗓️ Release: October 9 | 🎭 Drama / Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞R
📝 Synopsis: Aaron Sorkin's companion piece to The Social Network, drawn from the Wall Street Journal's Facebook Files reporting. Mikey Madison plays whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White the reporter who helps her go public. Bill Burr and Betty Gilpin co-star.
Angel and the Badman (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: October 9 | 🎭 Western / Action | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: Angel Studios remakes the John Wayne classic. A wounded outlaw is taken in by a rancher's daughter, and the chance at love pulls him toward a different life until the law and his violent past catch up with him. Zachary Levi takes the Wayne role, with Neal McDonough and Tommy Lee Jones; Julio Quintana directs.
Other Mommy (R)
🗓️ Release: October 9 | 🎭 Horror / Supernatural | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: Jessica Chastain anchors this haunted-house story about an entity that wants to move into a little girl — but first it has to talk her into letting it in. Rob Savage directs. October's straight-down-the-middle scary movie.
Whalefall (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: October 16 | 🎭 Survival / Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: Adapted from Daniel Kraus's novel, a young scuba diver searching for his late father's remains is swallowed by an eighty-foot sperm whale with one hour of oxygen left. Austin Abrams stars alongside Josh Brolin and Elisabeth Shue. A remarkable one-location premise.
Street Fighter (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: October 16 | 🎭 Action / Adventure | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: Set in 1993, the arcade legend returns with Andrew Koji as Ryu and Noah Centineo as Ken, pulled back into the World Warrior Tournament by Chun-Li (Callina Liang). Jason Momoa, Eric Andre and Cody Rhodes round out a cast that clearly knows what it signed up for.
Crawlers (R)
🗓️ Release: October 16 | 🎭 Horror / Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: A plague of deadly, venomous spiders forces an apartment building into a police quarantine, and building manager Serena (Matilda Lutz) has to keep her residents alive while the spiders keep multiplying.
You Can See Everything (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: October 16 | 🎭 Documentary | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
📝 Synopsis: Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim moved in with Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her husband 34 days before her 11-year prison sentence for fraud began. It earned rave reviews and Oscar buzz after a surprise Telluride premiere. It's from A24.
Sense and Sensibility (PG)
🗓️ Release: October 16 | 🎭 Drama / Romance | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG
📝 Synopsis: Jane Austen, freshly adapted. Daisy Edgar-Jones and George MacKay lead the Dashwood sisters' story of dwindling fortunes and competing suitors in Georgian England, with Fiona Shaw and Caitríona Balfe. Georgia Oakley directs. A rare fall release the whole family can sit through.
Back to the Future (PG) — One Day Only
🗓️ Release: October 21 | 🎭 Sci-Fi / Comedy | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG
📝 Synopsis: Universal is bringing the 1985 original back to theaters nationwide for one day, in standard screens as well as 4DX and D-Box. October 21 is the date Marty and Doc travel to in Part II. It's showing at Regal, AMC and Cinemark.
Wildwood (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: October 23 | 🎭 Animated / Fantasy | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
?? Synopsis: Laika's handcrafted stop-motion epic, directed by Travis Knight. A girl crosses into a forbidden forest to rescue her baby brother and finds a hidden realm of enchanted creatures and warring factions. Voices include Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay and Tom Waits.
Clayface (R)
🗓️ Release: October 23 | 🎭 Action / Superhero | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: DC goes horror. A Gotham street kid turned Hollywood star is disfigured by a crime boss, then takes an experimental treatment that restores his face and destroys his grip on reality. James Watkins directs from a Matt Reeves-produced script, with Eddie Marsan and Tom Rhys Harries.
Klara and the Sun (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: October 23 | 🎭 Drama / Sci-Fi | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: Taika Waititi adapts Kazuo Ishiguro's novel with Jenna Ortega as Klara, an Artificial Friend who wants only to find the right home. When she's chosen by an ailing girl (Mia Tharia), her devotion starts to heal a family carrying real loss. Amy Adams co-stars.
Everest: The Other Side (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: October 30 | 🎭 Documentary / IMAX | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: From the Oscar-winning team behind Free Solo, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi follow ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they chase the direct North Face of Everest — the most coveted ski line on earth, and one nobody has ever completed. Worth the IMAX ticket.
Christmas at the Kringles (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: October 30 | 🎭 Horror / Comedy | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
📝 Synopsis: The Seversons move to a new suburb and meet the neighbors: the Kringles, a picture-perfect family who celebrate Christmas all year and plan to kidnap and indoctrinate them. Ron Livingston, Rachel Bilson, Rob Riggle, Beverly D'Angelo, Thomas Lennon and Donald Faison star. It opens wide.
The Mosquito Bowl (R)
🗓️ Release: October 30 | 🎭 Drama / War | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: Peter Berg directs the true story of college football stars who enlisted in the Marines after Pearl Harbor and played one legendary game on Guadalcanal before the invasion of Okinawa. Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård and Ray Nicholson star.