Kristian Lin
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2025
I thought I’d post this annual feature a bit early so that you’re not overly slammed in the coming days when I put my...
Marty Supreme: Paddle to the Metal
A couple of years ago, people started speaking of Timothée Chalamet and other male actors as “rodent men,” with their prominent teeth and messy...
Film Shorts // December 24-30, 2025
OPENING
Anaconda (PG-13) B- if you haven’t seen the original, B if you have. Paul Rudd portrays a struggling Hollywood actor who tells his friends...
Peanuts for Christmas
Is there anything left to say about A Charlie Brown Christmas? Since it first aired on CBS 60 years ago this month, the 25-minute...
Avatar: Flame War
Avatar: Fire and Ash opens with a filmed statement by James Cameron and his actors warning against the dangers of artificial intelligence taking over the...
Housemaid: A Room of One’s Own
The Housemaid is not a remake of the classic 1960 South Korean film by that name, which has been remade a bunch of times...
Film Shorts // December 17-23, 2025
OPENING
Bha Bha Ba (NR) This Malayalam-language action-comedy stars Dileep, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Dhyan Sreenivasan, Balu Varghese, Redin Kingsley, Salim Kumar, and Mohanlal. (Opens Friday at...
DFW Film Critics Pick One Battle After Another
As we do each December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association has picked its best movies of the year, and the big winner is...
R.I.P., Rob Reiner
When the news reports first dropped that two people had been found dead in Rob Reiner’s house in Brentwood, Calif., I’ll admit that the...
Ella McCay: I’m Not With Her
It didn’t take long. We weren’t a minute into Ella McCay when the onscreen narrator (Julie Kavner) tells us about the title character, “I’m...
