Kristian Lin
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...
Scarlet for Me, Scarlet for You
Remember my holiday movie preview last week, where I said that Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet wasn’t likely to hit our theaters until February? Yeah, never...
World Cup Draw Breakdown
If you’re a casual sports fan who thinks that people who watch the NFL draft on TV are weirdos, you should know that a...
Film Shorts // December 10-16, 2025
OPENING
Abhimanyu Chapter 1 (NR) Gaumaya Gurung stars in this Nepalese drama as a man who returns to his village and is ensnared in an...
Hamnet: About a Boy
These are the facts: William Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet. The boy died of bubonic plague at the age of 11. Shortly after...
Merrily We Roll Along: Good Thing Going
Richard Linklater is currently filming his own version of Merrily We Roll Along with Paul Mescal, Ben Platt, and Beanie Feldstein. He’s doing it...
Holiday Films, Oscar Bait
We have to start this piece with the strangest movie of the season and possibly the year. The Testament of Ann Lee is a musical...
