Jennifer Jason Leigh

Coen Brothers and Their Country Top the Dallas-Fort Worth Critics' List

Cumming Up

Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes--and more

Blood sisters

Nell and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle invoke mythological American women

Personal best

From a year full of startling and memorable movies, here are our favorites

In the trenches

Filmmaker Todd Haynes outlines the danger of playing it Safe

For tits sake

The biggest boobs in the campy fleshfest Showgirls are its writer and director

Dallas Observer critics Jimmy Fowler and James Mardis selected the following films on their lists of the year's best:

The biggest boobs in the campy fleshfest Showgirls are its writer and director

Ready to scorn

Kansas City is Robert Altman's best movie in years--but does anyone care anymore?

Events for the week

Kansas City is Robert Altman's best movie in years--but does anyone care anymore?

Her day

Theatre Arlington plots impressive revenge in The Heiress

Women under the influence

Robin Wright Penn and Alicia Silverstone are looking for a few good men

Subverting the Bard

Lange, Pfeiffer, Leigh topple the patriarchy in a heavy-handed A Thousand Acres

Respectable street

Though it doesn't entirely live up to The Heiress, Washington Square is an astute piece of social observation

Self-interest

Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland recharges her battery with a Henry James classic

Hype and holler

The best of 1997 was OK, but sometimes the worst was better

Joe Bob in Bloom

John Bloom has taken his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, and gone Hollywood. But watching America's favorite drive-in movie critic on television these days, a new character is emerging: John Bloom himself

Spine-tingling

David Cronenberg finds a new place to stick it in eXistenZ

Synecdoche, New York

Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's latest

Laughing Pains

Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's latest

Margot Shows Family's Prickly Side

Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's latest

So Close, and Yet So Far

The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

Graphic, Novel

Hanks and Newman are on the bloody and brilliant Road to Perdition

Crowe's Songs

Plus: Sleepy Hero History, Tull Tag

Shock Treatment

An experimental director and a harrowing tale fit The Jacket perfectly

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

An experimental director and a harrowing tale fit The Jacket perfectly

A Real Wreck

Highwaymen might drive you into a brick wall

Ryan's Hope

Jane Campion guides Meg Ryan through a stunning career transformation In the Cut

Fake Out

At the Deep Ellum film fest, fact becomes fiction becomes fact

Do the Wrong Thing

Former friends reckon with reality in Linklater's Tape

School Daze

Fast Times at Ridgemont High will always be a connection to high school memories

Pros Wrestling

In The Anniversary Party, the characters are smart, funny and real--yet somehow hollow

Skip It

Why the best teen movie of the year, based on a beloved novel, won't be in theaters

A Fan's Notes

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

Clueless

It's too easy, but here goes: This movie's a Loser. Sorry.

Rude awakening

Georgia is a character study that refuses to charm

Greenberg: Noah Baumbach Goes West For His Latest Self-Obsessed, Unlikable Protagonist

Georgia is a character study that refuses to charm

Karina Longworth's Top 10 Movies of 2010

Georgia is a character study that refuses to charm