The Best Documentaries of 2025
My list of the year’s best documentaries looks different from other critics’ lists, mainly because I put a premium on things like entertainment value...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2025
A lot of famous actors made their directing debuts in 2025, but none of their efforts were good enough to make it onto this...
Open Netflix House
North Texas is morphing into a fierce competitor in the interactive-entertainment industry.
The region is already the birthplace of massive video game franchises, including DOOM, Duke...
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...
