The Wave
2026RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2026
| Wolfe Video | Release Date: June 26, 2026 |
Summary:
When a quiet music student joins a feminist uprising on her university campus, her decision to speak out transforms a protest into a powerful collective movement fueled by song, courage, and solidarity.
Genre(s):
Drama, Musical
Runtime:
129 min
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Jun 17, 2026
Jun 17, 2026
Aesthetic flourishes abound, which make it an entertaining viewing experience, but one does wish that the narrative was a touch more complex. Lelio embeds some compelling meta-textual moments — ones that mostly address that fact that he’s a man tackling this subject — but the actual story of Julia can feel secondary to the melodic pageantry.
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Jun 17, 2026
The Wave is nothing if not ambitious, and in its bittersweet ending it reaches a melancholic, nuanced understanding that once the feminist wave broke, the backlash began. But the kind of complex debates about consent, vigilante justice and empowerment that are deployed here sit uneasily in what is in some ways a classical female self-realisation musical.
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Jun 17, 2026
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