[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 four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, June 19th, 2026. 1) TOY STORY 5 It's hard for me to believe that the Toy Story universe has been around for more than thirty years. Thirty years. The original Toy Story opened in November of 1995, and just typin

There are certain performers who become so famous, so omnipresent, so deeply embedded in the culture that it becomes almost impossible to separate the actual work from the celebrity surrounding it. Jennifer Lopez is one of those people. She's been famous for so long, and in so many different ways, that it's easy to forget how impressive her rise really was. Before she was J.Lo, before she was selling out arenas, launching fashion lines, breaking streaming records, judging tal

There has always been something fascinating about aliens. Seriously, think about it. Long before movies, before television, before radio dramas, before podcasts, before any of us were arguing online about whether UFO footage is real or fake, human beings have stared up into the sky and wondered what the hell is out there. It's one of those questions that never goes away. Are we alone? Is there intelligent life somewhere else in the universe? If there is, what does it look lik

[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 four new movies in this week's capsule movie reviews for Friday, June 12th, 2026. 1) DISCLOSURE DAY One of the first things that crossed my mind while watching Disclosure Day was that if you've ever wondered whether somebody was eventually going to make a movie out of all those stori

There are certain performers who seem almost universally beloved, and Paul Rudd is one of them. Let me start with a simple question: do you know anybody who doesn't like Paul Rudd? Seriously, I don't think I've ever met anyone who dislikes the guy. Everybody likes Paul Rudd. Men like him, women like him, movie fans like him, television fans like him, comedy nerds like him, superhero fans like him. He has somehow managed to build a career spanning more than three decades witho

Stand-up comedy is one of the purest art forms there is. It really is. I mean, think about it: one person, one microphone, a spotlight, and an audience that can either love you or completely destroy your soul in about seven seconds. There’s nowhere to hide. No special effects, no editing, no stunt doubles, no giant orchestra swelling up behind you to save your ass if things go south. It’s just you, your material, your timing, your personality, and whether or not the people si