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The Best Supporting Performances of 2023
I had a hard time coming up with women to put on this list, and sadly, this isn’t the first time I’ve had to...
The Iron Claw: Beyond the Ring
They’re an essential part of moviegoing and pop music. We call them heartthrobs, those softly beautiful, feminine-looking young guys whom teenage girls (and the...
The Top 10 Movies of 2023
I haven’t reviewed a lot of the movies on this annual feature of mine because they didn’t see the inside of a Tarrant County...
Film Shorts // December 27, 2023 – January 2, 2024
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Bubblegum (NR) Bindu Chandramouli and Anannyaa Akulaa star in this Indian romantic comedy as a poor DJ who falls in love with a wealthy...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2023
I’ve been hoisted by my own self-imposed rules this year. Because my annual list of best first-time feature directors doesn’t include documentarians, I can’t...
Poor Things: The Woman With Two Brains
What are the movies’ best takeoffs on the Frankenstein story? My inner comedy nerd says Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. Bomani J. Story’s The Angry...
Color Purple: African Violet
There was not as much outcry as you might expect when Steven Spielberg was announced as the director of The Color Purple in the...
Kaiju-Sized Feels
Who’d have thought one of the year’s best movies would be a Godzilla film? Me, for one. I’ve been loving these things since before...
Film Shorts // December 20-26, 2023
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Anyone But You (R) This romantic comedy stars Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney as a short-lived couple who feign that their relationship is still...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2023
No matter how swamped I am during the Christmas holidays, I always enjoy transcribing stretches of dialogue that I think are particularly good. Is...
