The Best Lead Performances of 2025
There are some new faces on this feature this year, which is lucky for me, because otherwise I think I’d have trouble writing up...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2025
This will be the first year that the Oscars have a Best Casting category, and it’s long overdue. The films that have made the...
Weird Wednesday
Everything about Weird Wednesday, the monthly secret film series at Southside Preservation Hall run by Fort Worth Community Cinema, goes against how movie marketing...
The Top 10
Who was it who said that a critic’s year-end Top 10 list isn’t really a list of their 10 favorite films? Rather, it deliberately...
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...
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...
Crude Oil
Every show deserves some time to find itself and its audience. The first season of Paramount+’s Landman was a polished primetime drama that didn’t need...
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...
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...
