[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, March 13th, 2026. 1) REMINDERS OF HIM Every once in a while, you sit down in a movie theater, and you’re stunned, not in a good way, not in the “wow, that blew me away” sense, but in that slack-jawed,...

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, March 6th, 2026. 1) THE BRIDE! I really wanted The Bride! to work. I like Maggie Gyllenhaal . I admired her first film as a director, The Lost Daughter . The cast here is phenomenal. And the idea itself, revisi

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, February 27th, 2026. 1) SCREAM 7 Before I jump into the full review, I do have to say this up front: in order to review Scream 7 in a complete way, I’m going to talk about plot points, and I’m going to mention

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review seven new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, February 20th, 2026. 1) I CAN ONLY IMAGINE 2 I should probably begin this by saying I am not the target audience for I Can Only Imagine 2 . Not even close. I didn’t see the first I Can Only Imagine from 2018.

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, February 13th, 2026. 1) WUTHERING HEIGHTS Here’s the thing I want to make absolutely clear right up front, because I know how these things tend to get framed: my hatred of Emerald Fennell ’s Wuthering Heights has absolutely nothing to do with some sacred-cow reverence for Emily Brontë ’s novel. I don’t worship

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, February 6th, 2026. 1) THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3 Here we go again. I honestly never would have guessed back in 2024, when The Strangers: Chapter 1 limped into theaters, that it would take three full movies to tell a story that barely justified one. And yet here we are in 2026 with The Strangers: Chapter 3 , the