Whalefall(2026)

Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin are good, as you'd expect. The cinematography does a good job of conveying the vastness of the ocean, and the film is claustrophobic. If tight spaces get to you, this will. The problem is that there isn't enough story here to warrant a full feature film. This should have been a short. There just isn't enough meat on the bone. I can't believe I'm saying this, but a movie about a whale accidentally eating a man isn't interesting enough to carry it. I know that sounds silly when I say it out loud, but that's how it landed.