Welcome back to The Big To-Do. Today is Juneteenth, and holiday events extend through Sunday. Learn about free museum admission, outdoor celebrations, and a combination of the two (at the Museum of African American History) in Globe correspondent Gitana Savage’s roundup. Expect phenomenal weekend weather and plenty of time to enjoy it — Sunday is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Staying indoors is a fine choice when your streaming choices include “a host of fresh movies and TV shows.” The Globe’s Matt Juul has five suggestions, including “Project Hail Mary” and all of season 1 of “Widow’s Bay.” And the arts brief section The Rundown includes the lowdown on the Nantucket Film Festival, which runs through Monday.

World Cup play at Foxborough picks back up tonight, when Morocco takes on Scotland and New England’s new favorite visitors, the Tartan Army. (The Norwegians who’ve been doing the Viking Row all over the place will be back in town next week). And a victory over Australia today in Seattle would send the US team to the knockout round.

Sunday is Father’s Day, and former Globe arts writer Matthew Gilbert recalls “a person who’s largely a stranger.” In an affecting essay, he recalls the father who died at 37, leaving three sons under 10 and a 30-year-old widow who “never spoke of him, never compared us to him, never complained or kvelled about him, not once.” The last two paragraphs are the best thing you’ll read all day.

Movies

“Toy Story 5” earns 3 stars from Globe film critic O​die Henderson, who writes, “This film put me back on team Woody and Buzz.” Greta Lee voices the villain, Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return as Woody and Buzz, and Joan Cusack “finds the heart and soul of Jessie” as the cowgirl drives the main plot. Conan O’Brien plays Smarty Pants, “a potty training assistant,” and “is just delightful here. In fact, all the voice talent shines, even in small roles.”

In “Leviticus,” an Australian community terrorizes its gay residents with “a religious ritual that’s a clear metaphor for conversion therapy.” The 3½-star result “merges the tropes of adolescent romance movies with the two scariest horror movie scenarios,” Henderson writes. “A good horror movie, like a good sermon, can make you feel uncomfortable about the truth. ‘Leviticus’ is a very good horror movie.”

Hayley Kiyoko’s debut feature, “Girls Like Girls,” offers “an honest portrayal of adolescence.” Set in 2006, the adaption of Kiyoko’s novel stars Maya da Costa and Myra Molloy as schoolmates turned friends turned lovers. The outdated tech “should give millennials some furious jolts of nostalgia,” Henderson writes in a 3-star review. “For everyone else, gay or straight, this film might dredge up memories of their first love or first crush.”

If not for the title, you might not even know who “The Death of Robin Hood” is supposed to be about. As the elderly outlaw, Hugh Jackman “is unrecognizable under endless ripples of gray hair and beard,” writes Henderson. The 1½-star effort eventually “becomes the story of a man reflecting on the repercussions of his crimes,” but “[n]one of this is remotely involving.”

Black-and-white film affords viewers “the best way to appreciate Marilyn Monroe, the actor.” For the centennial of the birth of the ultimate blonde bombshell, Henderson goes deep. “For a long time, I thought Monroe got by on star power alone,” he writes. But as both a " film noir favorite" (“Niagara,” “Don’t Bother to Knock”) and a “gifted comedienne” (“All About Eve,” “Some Like It Hot”), she made her mark.

TV & Streaming

The new series “I Will Find You,” based on Harlan Coben’s 2023 novel, draws on the author’s local roots. Britt Lower (“Severance”) plays a fictional former Globe reporter helping her ex-brother-in-law David (Sam Worthington), a Revere dad doing time for killing his own son — who may not be dead. The Globe’s Matt Juul chats with the author and costars about a mystery thriller Lower says was “tapping into the Boston Strong” ethos.

Skip ahead if you don’t want to know the big twist in season 1 of “Sugar”: Colin Farrell’s John Sugar “is a very handsome, mostly benevolent space alien.” Ahead of season 2, Globe TV critic Chris Vognar looks at the LA-set series through that prism. “Fictional private eyes often have secrets, and Sugar’s ... is a doozy. What really makes him different is his effort to be a decent human being, when in fact he isn’t a human being.”

“Wherever you look ... the kids are not all right.” A century after the original Lost Generation, there’s “something uncomfortably uncanny about watching depictions of cyberstalking and adjacent abuse in shows like ‘Cape Fear,’ ‘Adolescence,’ and ‘Euphoria’ on devices that we can’t seem to turn away from,” Vognar writes. “For the most part, today’s TV youth has moved past mere alienation and into full-on crisis.”

Museums & Visual Art

The MFA’s Art of the Americas galleries reopen today, at a fraught time for the country. Because of conditions attached to an NEH grant, the project happened without federal funding. “For countless organizations here and nationwide,” writes Globe art critic Murray Whyte, “federal money tied to political cooperation forced painful decisions: Turn it down and lose long-planned projects? Or accept, and risk compromising missions?”

“Where’s Boston? Fifty Years Later,” at the Boston Athenaeum, is a throwback to America’s Bicentennial. The sprawling multimedia installation “was an extremely big deal,” writes the Globe’s Mark Feeney. Images by South End resident Constantine Manos (1934-2025) “took pride of place,” and at a smaller scale, his work plays the same role in the new show. “Ultimately, these photographs aren’t about geography or institutions or politics. They’re about people.”

Virtual reality, holograms, and other tech innovations are helping Massachusetts museums present “immersive exhibits instead of imaginative experiences.” From the Boston waterfront to Lexington Center, Globe correspondent Aayushi Datta surveys the offerings. “We’ve been very deliberate and ethical,” says Museum of African American History president Noelle Trent. “There really are no ethical guidelines right now for AI in museums.”

Music

If it’s summer, classic rock acts are touring New England. And opening for some of them are 21st-century artists inspired by the headliners. “When I write a song, I’m trying to be myself, but I’m also trying to be as good as all my heroes, including him,” Brittney Spencer says of Bob Dylan. Globe correspondent Annie Sarlin spotlights “four newer artists to look out for as they open for your favorite rock icons on tour.”

Son Little’s tour in support of his latest album, “Cityfolk,” produced with Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes, reaches Cambridge tomorrow. In his songwriting, Globe correspondent Stuart Miller writes, the multi-instrumentalist “is often tacking in one direction then another, both musically and lyrically, although the one constant is that he has no patience with the borders of genres.”

The Smiths split up almost four decades ago, but the indie rock band’s legacy endures in some unexpected places. For instance, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, which plays host to a one-day exhibition tomorrow celebrating the 1986 album “The Queen Is Dead.” Organizer Daniel Savastano, WPI grad and curator of the virtual Smiths Museum, chats with Globe correspondent James Sullivan about the band that changed his life.

The Muse lured up-and-coming bands to Nantucket for years before becoming a bar and restaurant. Last year, the dive was “rechristened as a live music venue, and by the end of the summer it had hosted around 20 performances,” Globe correspondent Victoria Wasylak writes for Sound Check. “This season’s lineup includes bands that harken back to the venue’s heyday — such as Fountains of Wayne, Sugar Ray, and Everclear — as well as modern indie rock and pop acts.”

Theater

Sharyn Rothstein’s “Bad Books” is “a bruising battle over the power of words.” It pits a librarian against a parent who objects to a book recommended for her teenage son. As The Librarian, Therese Plaehn “is a wonder,” writes Globe reviewer Terry Byrne. Aimee Doherty plays “a solid Mother ... who has worked hard to create a veneer of respectability (on social media at least) over a hot mess of self-doubt.” At the Gloucester Stage through June 27.

Eugene Ionesco is having a moment. Works by the iconic playwright of the postwar Theater of the Absurd “have recently been crowding the stages of Greater Boston,” writes Globe correspondent James Sullivan, who explores the phenomenon. “It’s difficult to stage Ionesco in a way that’s relatable,” says Arlekin Players Theatre founder Igor Golyak. “But right now is a time where the absurd becomes our lives.”

Books

bell hooks published a book titled “Communion”; 24 years later, so did JD Vance. Local bookstores are part of a grassroots effort to promote the queer Black activist’s work rather than the vice president’s. “Even if it may seem like a small protest, it is one that nonetheless suggests to the administration that we don’t stand for this as a people,” Porsha Olayiwola of Just Book-ish in Dorchester tells Globe correspondent Jane Miller.

The book industry forms the backdrop of Kate Christensen’s “disarmingly frank and utterly engaging” “Good Company.” The author “is, like her main character, simultaneously highly respected and underappreciated,” writes Globe reviewer Lauren LeBlanc. Midcareer novelist Julia heads to a literary festival, where “momentum builds as gossip that started at the hotel bar ... slides from spicy chatter to sinister incrimination.”

“The Perfect Moment” focuses on 1988 and “a Who’s Who of disruptive creators and their seminal works.” Subtitled “God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars,” Isaac Butler’s follow-up to “The Method” is “something of a sophomore slump,” Globe reviewer Hamilton Cain writes. But “it ably and passionately underscores the legacy of the First Amendment, cornerstone of our Bill of Rights, besieged now as never before.”

Today’s newsletter was written by Marie Morris and produced by the Globe Living/Arts staff. Marie Morris can be reached at marie.morris@globe.com. Thanks for reading.

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