[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.

Sam Rockwell is one of those actors who feels like he’s always been there. You know his face. You know his voice. You know that sideways grin, that jittery energy, that dangerous intelligence behind the eyes. And yet somehow, for a very long time, people didn’t quite know what to do with him. He was “that guy.” The guy who shows up, steals scenes, elevates mediocre material, and leaves you thinking, wait a minute… who was  that? And then you realize it was Sam Rockwell again

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

Alright… this one’s personal. And when I say personal, I mean right down to the bone. Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are brutal, relentless, heartbreaking afflictions. There’s no poetry in them. There’s no “silver lining.” They do enormous damage not only to the person who is suffering, but to everyone orbiting around that person—family, friends, caregivers, loved ones who slowly watch someone they recognize disappear in front of them. I’ve lived this. Dementia runs in my f

Renny Harlin (born Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola in Riihimäki, Finland in March of 1959) is one of those filmmakers who somehow managed to be huge, influential, wildly successful, catastrophically unsuccessful, critically dismissed, financially celebrated, totally misunderstood, and relentlessly productive all at the same time. And I mean that as the highest possible compliment. This is a guy who has worked in Hollywood, Europe, Finland, Bulgaria, and China, who has directed g

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