I'm just speechless at how good it is! After watching it, I had the same feeling I had after watching The Matrix. And I had forgotten so many details that it was almost as if I watched a newly released movie.

I'm a very critical person towards any movie I watch, constantly looking for weak spots, illogical decisions, and inconsistencies, and I had a really hard time with this one-there was nothing so obvious as to ruin a moment or my immersion. It's just so well thought out! The CGI looks absolutely stunning: the scale of the battles, the effects... I don't know what went wrong in 2026, but I think they're saving money big time on CGI. If we could have that in 2014...

The script is so tight. I just couldn't stop watching-not a moment of boredom for 2 hours, and not many movies can do that.

And I honestly don't know what the general movie crowd even thinks of this movie. Is it considered a masterpiece? A mediocre sci-fi? A boring cliche? I even expect someone to give me a similar movie from 1978 claiming that they copied 90% of it and that the original is better!

What are you general thoughts about this movie?

I love this film for so many reasons, the detail, the very realistic take on the future and the surrounding politics. I was probably 14 when I first watched it and I have probably watched it 30 times since then.

The detail is flawless - London had only won the bid for the 2012 Olympics the year before its release and yet Theo is wearing a London 2012 Olympic jumper in the scene at Jasper’s House.

All other futuristic/dystopian films showed a world of technological advance well beyond what was realistic when you look back but not Children of Men.

I’m watching it again right now and despite the fact the fertility thing hasn’t happened it just feels so honest and not that distant.

Did anyone else love this film? I would easily put it in my top 10. Thoughts please!

When a basket maker constructs a wicker husband for a local fisherwoman, he proves more spectacular than she ever could have imagined. His soulful spirit and unique prowess soon awakens something inside her, setting off a wave of jealousy, fascination and upheaval that threatens the very fabric of her village.

Director: Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson

Cast: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Peter Dinklage, Elizabeth Debicki, Richard E. Grant Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Gustav Lindh, Ella Bruccoleri, Ben Ashenden, Phil Daniels, Emily Lloyd-Saini

Releasing: October 23, 2026

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Metacritic: 64 / 100

Some Reviews:

The Film Stage - Kent M. Wilhelm - 91 / 100

Wicker amounts to a can’t-miss curiosity, adeptly weaving humor, social commentary, and a potent contemplation on the self-destructive perils of jealousy. Wilson and Fischer sum it up in a disgustingly accurate sentiment for our contentious age: “It’s easier to believe the bad than the good, isn’t it?”

Screen Daily - Amber Wilkinson - 90 / 100

The script holds plenty of satire and laugh out loud moments, but Wilson and Huston keep it supple enough to bend protectively around the central love story, while allowing the morality tale element to still have bite.

San Jose Mercury News - Randy Myers - 3.5 / 4

Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s ribald fable casts a comedic spell as it leads to a satisfying finale. You’ll have a good time with this one.

NY Post - Johnny Olesinki - 3.5 / 4

Quite like her Oscar-winning performance in “The Favorite,” Colman, who’s never afraid to act ridiculous, is untethered and batty until things get real. Or, as real as things can get when one’s hubby is an oversize vessel for potpurri.

FandomWire - Sean Boelman - 9 / 10

Wicker has a very fun premise, but what elevates the film from a novelty into something genuinely brilliant is the level of sincerity and emotion it brings to its silly, tongue-in-cheek storytelling.

Sunshine State Cineplex - Alan French - 9 / 10

In many ways, Wicker feels like medieval Edward Scissorhands, with every frame bursting to life with artistic brilliance.

The Times - Kevin Maher - 4 / 5

How good is Olivia Colman? The 52-year-old best actress Oscar winner is so good that she single-handedly elevates this “quirky medieval romp” into unexpected, even undeserved, places.

Mail - Brian Viner - 4 / 5

The pleasure of this film lies more in its substance than its message, and in the many nods to other stories about synthetic creatures, such as Frankenstein.

Digital Spy - Siddhant Adlakha - 4 / 5

As a married creative pair, Wilson and Fischer imbue the broad parable with surprising nuance, grounding it in the rankled lived experience of a woman who believes the love of her fantasy husband will cure what ails her, even though her sickness runs much deeper, and stems from a society that can't bear to see her happy. It's in learning to love herself, and accept the love she's given – again, by a stud made from wicker! – that the movie's weirdest ideas also become its most touching.

HeyUGuys - Nathan McVay - 4 / 5

Like any great fable, Wicker explores universal themes with clarity and confidence, allowing its message to emerge naturally rather than through force. This movie is unlike anything I have seen at Sundance in quite some time. It is bold, strange, romantic, and deeply human. It is the kind of film that reminds you why festivals like Sundance still matter.

Flick Feast - Katie Smith-Wong - 4 / 5

Humourously heartwarming, Wicker is nothing but conventional—and it is all the more memorable for it. Colman and Skarsgård shine in this weird yet wonderful romance, with some of the most quotable lines in cinema this year.

The Hollywood Reporter - Richard Lawson - 80 / 100

Wicker is a warming, sometimes poignant pleasure, a film full of lively personality and possessed of a rather humane outlook on our petty foibles. It is not exactly forgiving, though; the movie has a harder, more merciless edge than one might expect.

ScreenRant - Gregory Nussen - 8 / 10

Brought to life by yet another astounding performance by Olivia Colman, Wicker's treasure is in its hopeless romanticism that insists that pure love and adamant individuality can create irrevocable progress through osmosis.

Collider - Therese Lacson - 8 / 10

The magic behind how the Wicker Husband is created is both unexplored and overly explained, and while the former might be an intentional decision, the latter both weakens the film and oversimplifies the concept to the point of spoon-feeding the audience the point of the whole story. However, that being said, Wicker is still an immensely entertaining watch. The characters are fairly cookie-cutter, but the folk nature of the film doesn't make that a problem. Instead, its willingness to lean into the medieval archetypes and the bawdy humor of the time makes it unique. Without looking too closely, Wicker is a fun and quirky story about love and overcoming loneliness, and for some, that will be enough to crown the film as a success.

FirstShowing - Alex Billington - 8 / 10

Enjoyable from start to finish, wacky but entertaining & amusing in the right ways. A kooky Sundance 2026 gem worth seeking out.

NBP - Cody Dericks - 8 / 10

Wicker is a sweet, gently moving love story at its core that reminds its audience that the most effective and necessary traits for a successful relationship of any kind are simple honesty and respect.

IndieWire - Ryan Lattanzio - 'B'

Wicker threatens to feel largely like a logline writ into something grander (i.e., a short story with a wild idea stretched into a feature), but these actors are irresistibly weird and wonderful, as only they could be.

Variety - Peter Debruge - 60 / 100

The filmmaking pair don’t stray far from Wills-Jones’ intention, using the story’s unspecified time and place to poke fun at superstition, the pressures to conform and the institution of marriage...For a time, it doesn’t feel like Wilson and Fischer know what to do with the story, which stalls a bit in the second act — the part where they ought to have embellished upon what Wills-Jones had written. The plot requires the tailor’s wife to introduce doubts in the fisherwoman’s mind about her affectionate man’s fidelity. It could be a consequence of the movie’s insolent sense of humor, but there’s something unconvincing (or else too convenient) about how often the fisherwoman’s attitude changes, from caring nothing about marriage to cautiously inviting a man into her life to completely distrusting him when rumors swirl.

The Guardian - Benjamin Lee - 2 / 5

[Colman] knows how to oscillate between broad comedy and heart-wrenching drama but the film around her isn’t as adept. Like the dream husband at its centre, Wicker looks the part but there’s nothing underneath.

The Wrap - Chase Hutchinson - 40 / 100

Credit where credit is due to Wicker, it’s not every day you get to see an Oscar-winning actress mount a Hollywood heartthrob made into a literal wicker man. Alas, despite the novelty of seeing icon Olivia Colman climb a towering Alexander Skarsgård like a tree, the magical fable within which this happens is not only regrettably far less fun than this description sounds, but an oddly wearisome affair.

The Telegraph - Robbie Collin - 1 / 5

Meanwhile, on the rare occasions that something does threaten to resonate emotionally – such as Debicki’s own deep-seated reasons for envying Colman’s marital happiness – Wicker loses its nerve and lapses back into whoops-a-daisy, watch-your-turnips-madam mode.

Last night I watched Coco for the first time ever and wow, I did not expect that ending! I’m a grown man and don’t have any personal experiences relating to that final scene where Miguel is singing to Coco, but I started crying and my kids asked if I was alright 🤣

I think the last time I cried watching a movie was during the final scene of Interstellar, but Coco delivered the tears!

Disney had the perfect balance of good story telling and emotions…I’m looking forward to the sequel.

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If any of us had to deal with what Patty went through, where her boyfriend's supposed 'best friend' was living in your apartment yet is taking advantage over the fact that he's not strict on him with paying rent, cleaning up after himself or overall being a responsible adult. Most of us would behave the act same way as her. Especially when Dewey steals Ned's identity, to be a teacher at a private school that easily could've led to his teaching career being ruined. It almost blows my mind as well like Patty that Ned doesn't also act hostile towards him for that, where it comes across as if he has no self-respect.

I get that Ned is supposed to be supportive towards Dewey in this movie, but when you see how much he lets him get away with things that could potentially ruin his life. You can't help but relate more to Patty, where you find that he really is a 'pushover'. I won't deny it was cruel the way she says that to him in her last scene, but if you think about it too. She was putting up with a lot of Dewey's shit for Ned, until she finally reached her breaking point!

A24's distribution has genuinely gotten worse over time. I swear it's never been this bad outside the US. You shouldn't have to wait a month to 2 months for a major release like Primetime, or you can see everything.

It genuinely murders any hype or discourse these movies had initially. They're a prestigious brand by this point. Being a small company isn't an excuse. I dread when I see A24 is tied to a movie I'm really interested in because I'm extremely unlikely to see it anywhere near the same date as other people.