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June 19, 2026 
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Hey, movie fans!
We’re just days from the official beginning of summer, which also falls on Father’s Day this year. Dad (and the rest of the family) will have no shortage of movie options. The daddest of movies currently playing is probably Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller “Disclosure Day.” But another heavy-hitter, which now covers multiple generations of interest, is “Toy Story 5,” the latest in the long-running Pixar franchise. Will Dad laugh? Will he cry? Will he sing along to Taylor Swift?
Our chief critic Manohla Dargis wrote in her review that this movie, like the other installments, tackles complex themes. “Among the most harrowingly topical now,” she wrote, “is how people hold onto their humanity in the age of technocapitalism, even as it reduces individuals to commercially exploitable data.” Saddle up!
Also out this week is a movie that’s not your dad’s version of the Robin Hood tale. (Or is it?) “The Death of Robin Hood” stars Hugh Jackman in the title role. But here, he is imagined as less of a benevolent outlaw and more of a careless killing machine. I’ll presume there’s no Bryan Adams song in this one. In her review, the critic Alissa Wilkinson wrote that it is “a movie I liked thinking about more than I enjoyed watching, which is not precisely a slight against either it or its cast, who are especially good.”
It’s also Pride Month, and a handful of queer-themed movies are out this week as well, including the coming-of-age drama “Girls Like Girls,” the coming-of-age horror movie “Leviticus,” the food influencer melodrama from John Early, “Maddie’s Secret,” and the restoration of a queer Brazilian crime thriller from 1974, “The Devil Queen.”
Enjoy the movies!
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