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...
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...
Frankenstein: Your Monster
Guillermo del Toro’s version of Frankenstein plays in local theaters for two weeks before coming to Netflix, and there’s a great deal to like about...
House of Guinness: Sláinte
Steven Knight is the English screenwriter who created Peaky Blinders, and his new Netflix show, House of Guinness, has much of the same elements...
