Verity (2026)

What earned the score

• Same-Sex Desire as Carnal-Melodrama Beat

  During a woman’s bath-time masturbation fantasy, her imagined sexual situation with a married man shifts to kissing a woman. The film uses the same-sex desire as an explicit beat in its parade of carnal melodrama.

• Feminist Podcast Name-Check

  The film references the female-empowerment podcast Call Her Daddy, inserting a woke feminist brand as a passing cultural signal.

Details

Lowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for best-selling author Verity Crawford, uncovers Verity's autobiographical notes, and becomes involved in what may prove to be a lethal conspiracy.

Starring

Dakota JohnsonAnne HathawayJosh HartnettBrady WagnerIsmael Cruz Cordova

Director

Michael Showalter

Writer

Nick AntoscaColleen Hoover

Genre

MysteryThriller

Release Date

Sep 30, 2026

Parents Guide

• Sex Moderate

  Female breast nudity and female masturbation. Male rear nudity. Sex scenes.

• Violence Moderate

  A character is smothered to death with bare hands.

  A character is hit by a car with some blood splatter.

  A child cuts his mouth; blood shown.

• Profanity Moderate

  Some uses of f**k.

  Use of 'c**t' once.

• Drugs Mild

  Cigarette smoking, vaping.

  A character takes another person's prescription Xanax.

  Beer and spirits consumed, including with Xanax.

• Frightening Scenes Moderate

  A parent expresses a desire to kill their young children; references to sudden infant death syndrome and a scene depicting the attempted smothering of a baby.

  The drowning of a child is partially depicted.

  A character is unexpectedly spattered with blood, including on the face, from a car hitting a cyclist.

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