[Get the exclusive video  version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon !] 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, November 28th, 2025. 1) ZOOTOPIA 2 It's been nine years since the first Zootopia  came out, which in animation time is, I don't know, two Ice Ages and a half? And honestly, I barely remembered the d

Brendan Fraser has been making movies for over 30 years now (actually closer to 35) and what a fascinating career it’s been. He’s had huge highs, painful lows, long stretches where he disappeared completely, and then a comeback so inspiring that people literally cried watching it happen. He’s done slapstick, broad comedy, serious drama, adventure blockbusters, indies, and even superhero television. He’s been the goofy, likable leading man, the heartthrob, the action hero, an

[Get the exclusive video  version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon !] 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, November 21st, 2025. 1) RENTAL FAMILY Every now and then, a movie comes along that shouldn't really work, and yet somehow, against all odds, it does. Rental Family  is one of those movies. The conce

Adam Sandler , who is currently starring in the George Clooney mess Jay Kelly , is one of those guys that everybody  has an opinion about. For most people, he’s the loud, goofy, juvenile clown who made a fortune playing overgrown man-children who yell funny nonsense, punch people in the face, and fall down a lot. For others (and I’d put myself in this camp) he’s a wildly talented performer who, yes, built an empire on dumb comedies, but who’s also capable of incredible dept

Richard Linklater is one of my favorite filmmakers of all time... no question. A true hero of cinema. A guy who never sold out, never moved to Hollywood, never stopped making his  kind of movies. He’s an artist who stayed home in Austin, Texas, where he’s from, and built a career doing things on his own terms. He’s one of the great American directors, a genuine champion of independent film, and a storyteller who somehow manages to make the most everyday moments feel absolute

[Get the exclusive video  version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon !] 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, November 14th, 2025. 1) THE RUNNING MAN Edgar Wright's   The Running Man  is the second adaptation of Stephen King's  1982 novel (originally written under his Richard Bachman  pseudonym) and a rema