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Making Mary
Saving Mr. Banks is a lie. I don’t mean in the film-school sense that all movies (even documentaries) are fictions constructed by an author....
Hustle and Russell
Some caper films are sleek humming machines, but American Hustle is by David O. Russell, which means that it lurches and veers and speeds...
DFW Film Critics: “12 Years a Slave” Is Year’s Best Film
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association announced the results of their annual poll this morning, and 12 Years a Slave took the prize as...
Film Shorts
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All Is Lost (PG-13) There’s a remorseless sort of purity to J.C. Chandor’s drama about a lone, unnamed sailor (Robert Redford) who fights to...
Carte Blanchett
Cate Blanchett is generally regarded as one of the great actresses of our time, and yet her actual track record is curiously spotty. She...
Let’s Stryng Along
They make an interesting study in contrasts, the short-haired, clean shaven, jocular Geoff McGee and the long-haired, bearded, studious Derek Presley. Still, these Dallas...
Film Shorts
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A Miracle in Spanish Harlem (PG) Luis Antonio Ramos stars in this Christmas film as a widower with a failing business who finds himself...
Ice Castle
Last August we had The Snow Queen, a Russian film based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fable. Frozen is based on the same story, but...
Red Dead Redemption
AMC Grapevine Mills has been running Korean films on a semi-regular basis for a while now, but Commitment, which starts there on Friday, is...
Film Shorts
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Bridegroom (R) Linda Bloodworth-Thomason’s documentary profiles Shane Bitney Crone, a gay man who found himself deprived of legal rights after his partner, Tom Bridegroom,...
