[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

You know what’s funny? Every time some new “adult animated” show pops up on a streaming service and people act like it’s this brand-new, edgy invention, like animation just discovered profanity and sex and politics yesterday, I want to gently take them by the shoulders, turn them around, and point them directly at Ralph Bakshi . Because if an irreverent, TV-MA, adult animated comedy like Strip Law can debut on Netflix in 2026 with a big-name voice cast and a mainstream plat

Malcolm McDowell is one of my favorite actors. One of those performers who can literally do anything and somehow make it feel dangerous, funny, elegant, unhinged, or all four at the same time. He’s often described as a great British character actor, which is true, but the guy also has the looks, charisma, and presence of a leading man. He always has. He just happens to be a leading man who likes to dance on the edge, play lunatics, rebels, villains, monsters, and complicated

[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