Film

Tue, Dec 15, 7:00 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with Brad Bird

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Member tickets available Dec 1

Explore category and above

All tickets available Dec 8

Ray Gunn. 2026. USA. Directed by Brad Bird. Courtesy Netflix

Ray Gunn. 2026. USA. Directed by Brad Bird. Screenplay by Bird, Matthew Robbins. With Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Waits. DCP courtesy Netflix. 119 min.

While kids will delight in the retrofuturist crime noir that is Ray Gunn, adults will especially appreciate the lack of tongue-in-cheek hyper-irony in this loving homage to the popular 1960s TV series Peter Gunn and the favorite tropes of the genre (gunsels and molls and rain-slicked city streets) so familiar from the film’s most obvious inspirations, The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown. Brad Bird (Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol) reteams with Pixar founder John Lasseter and Matthew Robbins (Batteries Not Included) on a film about the last human private detective that, like all of Bird’s work, is itself deeply human.

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This film accompanies The Contenders 2026.

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