Paramount+ has locked a streaming date for Tuner, the critically acclaimed crime thriller starring Leo Woodall and Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman. The film arrives on the platform on Monday, September 21, giving Indian and global viewers a clear window for one of 2026’s most talked-about festival hits.
Directed by Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Daniel Roher in his narrative feature debut, Tuner follows Niki (Woodall), a gifted young piano tuner whose extraordinary ear for pitch proves equally useful for cracking safes. With his once-promising musical career behind him, Niki works across New York alongside mentor Harry Horowitz (Hoffman), tuning pianos for a colourful range of clients — until criminals pull him into a dangerous world of high-stakes theft. Havana Rose Liu co-stars as composition student Ruthie, whose budding romance with Niki is threatened by his deepening involvement in safecracking. The cast also includes Tony Award winner Tovah Feldshuh, Jean Reno and Lior Raz.
What sets Tuner apart is the rare festival path it has already walked. The film played Telluride, Toronto, Sundance and the BFI London Film Festival — a combination few crime thrillers manage in a single cycle. Critical reaction has been strong: The Daily Beast called it “the biggest surprise of the summer,” Collider ranked it among 2026’s highest-rated crime thrillers, and RogerEbert.com praised its sharp, engaging” premise. The film is also Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Produced by JoAnne Sellar, Lila Yacoub, Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler for Black Bear, and written by Roher with Robert Ramsey, Tuner blends romance and drama with taut heist suspense rather than relying on empty set pieces. For viewers who track Hollywood prestige thrillers on OTT, September 21 is the date: Tuner on Paramount+, with Woodall and Hoffman at the centre of a story that earned its festival heat the hard way.
For Movified readers scanning Hollywood and OTT calendars this month, Tuner sits beside other late-September streaming picks as a prestige thriller rather than a disposable action drop. Mark September 21: Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman’s Tuner arrives on Paramount+ after a festival run that already proved the film can hold a room.
