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DFW Film Critics Choose 2014’s Best Movies

This morning, the DFW Film Critics Association announced their awards for the best movies of 2014. I am a member of this group, and...
Top Five opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Top Five (R) Chris Rock writes, directs, and stars in this comedy as a comedian trying to become a serious actor while his fiancée...

Roughing It

I remember the first time I saw Reese Witherspoon. It was in the 1996 satirical thriller Freeway, and she was playing a juvenile delinquent...
Joel Edgerton and his palace are pelted by hail in Exodus: Gods and Kings.

Go Down, Moses

Hollywood’s last big-budget adaptation of the book of Exodus, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, hit movie theaters a full 58 years ago. By...
Diplomacy opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING:  Diplomacy (NR) Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum) directs this drama about the real-life efforts of Swedish consul general Raoul Nordling (André Dussollier) to limit...
Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones plan a long trip over wild country in The Homesman.

Eastward Bound

It has been nine years since Tommy Lee Jones made his directing debut with The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. That acclaimed Western, which...
Yes, your movie is that terrible. Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike in Hector and the Search for Happiness.

Stop Hectoring Me

And now, ladies and gentlemen, comes one of the year’s most insufferable movies, Hector and the Search for Happiness. Simon Pegg’s collaboration with Edgar...
Foxcatcher opens Wednesday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Foxcatcher (R) Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) directs this dramatization of the relationship between wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and billionaire John DuPont (Steve Carell)...
Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne woo each other under the lights of Cambridge in The Theory of Everything.

Physical Attraction

We’d all like to know what it’s like to be a genius, but it might well be both easier and more fruitful to make...

Fire Yourself

I was leery of Horrible Bosses 2, even though I liked the first one. You see, the director and the writers from the original...