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The Incomer
Directed by Louis Paxton
On an Orkney isle, siblings Isla and Sandy survive by hunting seabirds, retelling the stories of their ancestors, and defending the isle from dreaded "Incomers". Their world is upended with the arrival of an awkward council worker who has come to uproot them from their homeland. From TMDB
148 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
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The Incomer is a 2026 comedy drama film, directed by Louis Paxton, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin and Grant O'Rourke.
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- posts span Aug 19, 2025 to Nov 4, 2026
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of 63 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "The Incomer's inviting performances and quirky edge make it a refreshingly good-natured character study of human connection." Tom Dawson of Screen Daily called the film "a charming, defiantly regional human drama" with "a trio of strong performances," comparing its tone to The Ballad of Wallis Island meets The Wicker Man. Nick Schager of The Daily Beast described it as "winningly weird" with "a wittiness that's almost as odd as its heart is big," praising Rankin's performance and comparing the film to The Banshees of Inisherin. Fred…
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60 of 148 · most liked firstUh yeah, I think stars are back. Actor Domhnall Gleeson talks about season two of “The Paper,” the movie “The Incomer,” as well as how he wound up dancing in a Taylor Swift music video. Then, labor organizer Chuckslatly Slatty. Plus hotelier Johnny Spiderwebs is ready for spooky season!
neutral · AI labelView post →Sundance Online Movie 1: THE INCOMER, a dry Scottish comedy about a pair of hermetic islander siblings and the mainlander who comes to evict them. Familiar stuff, predictably plotted, but the cast (Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O'Rourke) is outstanding and it's often very funny. A good time.
positive · AI labelView post →FIRST image from ‘The Incomer’ starring our Domhnall Gleeson, Michelle Gomez, Gayle Rankin, Emun Elliott ❤️ Most importantly the movie, directed by Louis Paxton, will have its world premiere at SUNDANCE 2026 in the Next category!! And it’ll be available online for public!
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched a ton in October, but didn't get to all 20 of the goal movies (missed the brief window with The Incomer in theaters). Seeing V for Vendetta today in the theater and Quigley Down Under for movie night. Let's see how well i do in November! #moviesky #filmsky #novembermovies boxd.it/Vdozu
neutral · AI labelView post →NEWS ‼️ • Get your questions ready! Domhnall is scheduled to do an AMA on reddit r/movies ahead of the US release of 'THE INCOMER', as well as a Live Q&A at an early screening of the film September 22nd! The AMA will be at 3:00pm EST. Details for the Q&A TBA.
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW • Domhnall looking adorable at the premiere of 'THE INCOMER' at Sundance Film Festival 📸 — lauren_doesthings (22.01.2026)
neutral · AI labelView post →"Hilarious and uplifting... It's magic" -- Film Inquiry Domhnall Gleeson stars in the new comedy THE INCOMER, opening this Friday at the Music Box! Showtimes & Ticket Info: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW • Domhnall Gleeson portrait taken at the Edinburgh Film Festival premiere of 'THE INCOMER' 📸 pooroldkevin_ (13.08.2026)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Incomer is the best film I've seen this year. It's well worth a watch if you get the chance.
positive · AI labelView post →NEW photo of The Incomer red carpet at Edinburgh Film Festival ❤️ Domhnall Gleeson in the center, being chaotic as usual 🥰 📸 Emma Stoddart
neutral · AI labelView post →Someday I might give a negative review to a movie which, like THE INCOMER 📽️, features an argument about Predator vs Hobbit fanfic, but today is not that day. Michelle Gomez playing a version of her Green Wing character the cherry on top movieswetextedabout.com/the-incomer-...
positive · AI labelView post →NEW/OLD 📸 • Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, and 'THE INCOMER' crew sharing a slice at Sundance Film Festival! (22.01.2026) 🍕
neutral · AI labelView post →I screened thirteen 2026 Sundance Film Festival movies in 54 hours. Many solid films. Four stood out: The Incomer, Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!, Bedford Park, and Extra Geography. Writing my Go Into The Story article on the Fest films: "Stories We're Told. Stories We Tell."
positive · AI labelView post →after almost losing my mind not being able to get on, i finally got my Sundance Film Festival 2026 online tickets!!! 📽️🧡 zi - Kogonada Levitating - Wregas Bhanuteja The Incomer - Louis Paxton LADY - Olive Nwosu
neutral · AI labelView post →‘The Incomer’ starring Domhnall Gleeson will be the opening night film of the Next category at Sundance Film Festival 2026!! 😍
neutral · AI labelView post →Recent movie opinion roundup: Clayface was fantastic. Primetime was fantastic. The Incomer was fantastic. Whalefall was fun. You Can See Everything was interesting but I didn't love it. Street Fighter sucked.
positive · AI labelView post →Charming modern Scottish fairytale about a wizard coming to take away two seagulls from their island, only he becomes one of the tribe. But can he convince the rest of the council to let them be? This is not the story of this movie (...) #MovieSky #FilmSky #Cinema #Letterbxd #Review #TheIncomer
positive · AI labelView post →NEW production still of Daniel (Domhnall Gleeson) from The Incomer!! 😍 The movie premieres on September 4th in the UK and Ireland: trailer will be released on July 14th 🧡
neutral · AI labelView post →"Hilarious and uplifting" -- Film Inquiry Domhnall Gleeson is THE INCOMER, Now Playing at the Music Box! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
neutral · AI labelView post →On a remote Scottish isle, two siblings face an unexpected outsider in “The Incomer.” Director Louis Paxton and stars Domhnall Gleeson and Gayle Rankin look back on the 2026 Sundance Film Festival selection, which won the NEXT Innovator Award and is now in theaters. Read more: sndnc.org/3VDe9Zr
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie North America release dates to put on your calendar: Tony (Aug 21), The Incomer (Sept 25), Wild Horse Nine (Nov 6), The Debut (Dec 11). Declare Your Independents! Support indie films! Watch them in movie theaters!
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW/OLD • As you may have heard, filming for the new independent film, 'THE INCOMER' wrapped at the beginning of August! Here’s a group photo of the cast and crew posing in front of the beautiful shores of Caithness, Scotland! 🏴
neutral · AI labelView post →Since a move is currently out the question, I went to see yet another film set on Orkney. The Incomer manages to weave a haunting folk horror vibe into an goofy, ribald, and sometimes sad comedy, with a tender heart.
positive · AI labelView post →Domhnall Gleeson ’s beautiful closeups from The Incomer red carpet at Edinburgh Film Festival 2026 ❤️🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →‘The Incomer’ is screening at MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) 2026 in August! 😍🇦🇺 ‘The Incomer is a smart and absurd crowdpleaser about the importance of remaining true to oneself’ ❤️ Here Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O’Rourke and Louis Paxton at Sundance 2026
neutral · AI labelView post →Tickets to The Incomer premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026 are up for sale!! 🎟️ l1nq.com/6aj3409 The movie, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin and Grant O’Rourke, will screen in the out of competition strand on August 13, 14 and 15
neutral · AI labelView post →Pretty, cute and dapper: Domhnall Gleeson (and Gayle Rankin) on The Incomer red carpet ✨ The movie premiered yesterday at Sundance 2026 New pics
neutral · AI labelView post →Our stunning Daniel (Domhnall Gleeson) on The Incomer red carpet at Sundance 2026, yesterday 🥰 Cannot wait to see the movie!!
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW 🎥 • First clip from the upcoming indie film 'THE INCOMER' starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O'Rourke, Emun Elliot, and Michelle Gomez!
neutral · AI labelView post →'The Incomer' is a quirky, recluse Sundance comedy starring Domhnall Gleeson that's destined to probably be an under-watched, under-appreciated gem. But you can attempt to right that ship by seeing it in theaters starting today. Highly recommend! silverscreenriot.com/sundance-26-...
positive · AI labelView post →The mixed reviews suggest it might be a bit of a marmite movie, but I loved The Incomer, currently screening at Edinburgh's Filmhouse (@filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social) www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/the-in...
positive · AI labelView post →I feel like The Incomer was a movie made just for me, so good, funny and surprising in the best ways! More Scottish folklore linked Film/TV things please 🏴✨️
positive · AI labelView post →New teaser for 'THE INCOMER' which premieres tomorrow at Edinburgh Film Festival!
neutral · AI labelView post →Domhnall Gleeson will attend The Incomer UK premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026 opening night, on August 13th, alongside director Louis Paxton, co stars Gayle Rankin, John Hannah and Grant O’Rourke! 😍 Here the Fab 4 at Sundance 2026 🫶🏻
neutral · AI labelView post →New photos: The Incomer red carpet ✨ Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Michelle Gomez and Grant O’Rourke at the movie Sundance premiere yesterday
neutral · AI labelView post →The Incomer amazing director Louis Paxton, and the movie cast (Domhnall Gleeson, Michelle Gomez, Gayle Rankin and Grant O’Rourke) at Sundance 2026 for the premiere yesterday ❤️
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminder tickets to ‘The Incomer’ at Sundance 2026 will be up for sale tomorrow Jan. 14th at this link 👉🏻 festival.sundance.org/program/film... Online screenings (Jan. 29th / Feb. 2nd) available to American audience only
neutral · AI labelView post →Michelle Gomez on 'The Incomer' with Domhnall: "There's another thing with Domhnall Gleeson, I did an independent feature film this summer in Wick called 'The Incomer' with Domhnall Gleeson...did I just say that? Good. I'll say that twice, I'm not going to say it again!"
neutral · AI labelView post →NEWS 🗞 • Domhnall Gleeson is in the independent film 'THE INCOMER' which completed filming in Scotland over the summer. This was confirmed by co-star Michelle Gomez on the podcast 'Kermode on Film'! 🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching The Incomer (2026)! 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Getting away from it all and triple bill at the cinema. Surprise start since didn't expect an upper Midwest US cinema to show a quirky Scottish piece like the Incomer. Absolutely fantastic movie, shades of Local Hero meets Iain Banks The Wasp Factory and just so well done
positive · AI labelView post →Last night, I watched The Incomer (Dir. Louis Paxton) which, I am confident in declaring, will be my Film of the Year. Till now, I thought Sunny Dancer - my film of the Summer - would be unassailable in the top spot. But, in spite of THOROUGHLY loving SD, I have to.. bsky.app/profile/ligh...
positive · AI labelView post →Always great when you don’t know where a film is taking you, glorious, weird, funny, dark The Incomer Already know of a fair few folk who have been to see it twice Like the Hunt for the Wilderpeople and early Taika Waititi, but then not as conventionally linear www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ6T...
positive · AI labelView post →THE INCOMER is one of my favorite movies of the year, and I was so excited to talk to its director, Louis Paxton about it. We talked Scottish folklore and how he crafted a truly terrifying seal man. Read it at The Film Maven! thefilmmaven.com/the-incomer-...
positive · AI labelView post →The Incomer is my new favourite film of the year for being utterly wonderful. It leans into kindness and weirdness and finding your own folk, and I left it wanting to caw my heart out to the sky.
positive · AI labelView post →I was so keen because it is National Cinema Weekend that I was the first one there. My cinemas du choix are usually The Cameo or Filmhouse but they'd both sold out for The Incomer, so Cineworld it was. A very quirky little film that didn't quite fit in with the big cinema setting.
neutral · AI labelView post →NEWly shared interviews from The Incomer red carpet at Edinburgh Film Festival 2026. Domhnall Gleeson on his character in the movie, Daniel 🥰
neutral · AI labelView post →I spoke the very likeable and highly versatile DOMHNALL GLEESON, about new stuff like The Incomer and S2 of The Paper, his family, Taylor Swift, Werner Herzog, etc. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Incomer (Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O’Rourke) will have its Canadian premiere at Calgary International Film Festival 2026! 🇨🇦 Premiere’ll take place on Sept. 24th at 7pm local time, at Contemporary Calgary - Dome. Link to get tickets 👉🏻 sl1nk.com/y4i72w3
neutral · AI labelView post →The Incomer will be screening as part of Sonoma International Film Festival Monthly Awards Screenings, on September 22 at 7pm PDT (The Sebastiani Theatre, Sonoma CA)! ❤️ The event’ll be preceded by a wine reception at 6,15pm PDT 🍷 Link to get tickets 👉🏻 sl1nk.com/hajfwiv
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW • Domhnall Gleeson and Louis Paxton at Edinburgh Film Festival for 'THE INCOMER' 📸 Kat Gollock (13.08.2026)
neutral · AI labelView post →The first trailer has arrived for the Sundance winner The Incomer ahead of a fall release.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally some NEWS about The Incomer!! The movie will open this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival on August 13 😍 Edinburgh International Film Festival will run August 13-19. In the UHQ photo Louis Paxton, Gayle Rankin, Grant O’Rourke and Domhnall Gleeson at Sundance 2026
neutral · AI labelView post →The 2026 Edinburgh Film Festival will kick off with The Incomer, the debut feature from Edinburgh-born director Louis Paxton www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/ed... [by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]
neutral · AI labelView post →The Domhnall Gleeson-led The Incomer offers admirable craft and stale humor. Read @djmecca.bsky.social's review:
neutral · AI labelView post →‘The Incomer’ Review: Domhnall Gleeson Gets Hurled Onto a Rocky Shore and Pelted With a Deluge of Aggressively Quaint Quirk www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminder that Single Film Tickets for Sundance Film Festival go on sale this Wednesday, January 14th @ 10am MT! Online screenings of 'THE INCOMER' will be available to watch Jan 29 - Feb 2nd 🎬 🎟️ Tickets: festival.sundance.org/tickets/online
neutral · AI labelView post →The Incomer is a beautiful and funny film. My face hurts from smiling, especially at this part: “I've spent years thinking I'm weird because I like wizards and writing my own fan fiction about a bunch of hobbits who must defeat the Predator.” “That is weird. They're wildly different franchises.”
positive · AI labelView post →LovelyI I'm reminded of the wonderful movie THE INCOMER from earlier this year - I went twice! There are bird costumes. www.imdb.com/title/tt3698...
positive · AI labelView post →Tell about a time when you were at work and your boss made fun of your interests and you as a person. Would the invisible man set them on fire? Movie Club: The Incomer (2026) www.bannedlibrary.com/blog/2026/10...
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