January is usually a dumping ground for bad new movies, like 2005's Alone in the Dark (with Tara Reid as a scientist!) and 2009's Bride Wars, which pitted Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson against each other in an embarrassing comedy that contained zero laughs. That changed in 2026, when director Sam Raimi unleashed his surprisingly great survival thriller comedy, Send Help. The movie, which stars Rachel McAdams as a low-level employee stranded on a desert island with her jerk boss, was a surprise hit at the box office, grossing nearly $100 million worldwide.