Before she joins a stacked cast in one of the year's most exciting sci-fi movies, Dune: Part Three, Anya Taylor-Joy is currently topping the box office charts as millions of families worldwide flock to catch The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in theaters. Joined by the likes of Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, and Jack Black, alongside franchise newcomers Glen Powell, Brie Larson, and Donald Glover, Taylor-Joy's Mario sequel might not have impressed critics, but its early box office haul of over $400 million is indicative of one of 2026's most successful movies.
As Taylor-Joy's voice echoes around theaters globally, her face is back in the streaming charts, thanks to the success of an underrated sci-fi horror effort from 2025. Starring Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller as highly-trained operatives assigned to keep guard over a mysterious gorge from opposite sides, The Gorge was released to mixed results in February 2025, scoring just 62% from critics on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The consensus on the site reads, “Mixing multiple genres, The Gorge makes for a surprisingly endearing romance until its action-thriller obligations steer proceedings back onto a more predictable path.”
Under the directorial eye of Scott Derrickson, the man behind 2016's Doctor Strange and the Black Phone horror movies, Taylor-Joy and Teller crafted one of 2025's most underappreciated movies that, over a year on, is continuing its bid to be called one of Apple TV's best originals. At the time of writing, The Gorge is back in the Apple TV top ten in the U.S. from all Amazon channels, and places second in the global top ten on the streamer, losing out only to the blockbuster racing flick F1.