Meryl Streep

Can't Get a Fix on Crix' Pix for Best Flix

Mrs. "Strong Arm" Takes a Bow

Weekend Roundup: The Black Crowes, One Percent Band, Slow Burners

If you read our Good Friday column, you know there was a lot going on this weekend. However, we were obviously too busy actually seeing it to record and post it. But here's a sampler platter of what the weekend in the world of Dallas music was like. A yummy sampler platter. Skip the carrot sticks. T ... More >>

Women on the verge

Kitchen Dog gets partially unhinged in a pair of feminist one-acts

Seen any good movies lately?

The best of 1995

Hang 'em high!

Schroeder and Streep make clumsy co-conspirators in Before and After

They shoot movies, don't they?

Sydney Pollack does -- and his reliable, sturdy movies earn him this year's Great Director Award

Women, on the verge

Studios and audiences are embracing an overdue trend: female-empowerment films

Girl stuff

Manny and Lo plays hopscotch over female adolescence

It's a wonderful life

Marvin's Room makes suffering bearable, while Ghosts is just insufferable

The 28th Annual USA Film Festival Film Clips

Marvin's Room makes suffering bearable, while Ghosts is just insufferable

The family that frays together

Wrestling with mom and dad and familial dysfunction in One True Thing

Mild Irish roses

Sisters are doing it for themselves in Dancing at Lughnasa

Best Movie Pitch Worth the Wait

Angelika Film Center & Café

Coming (At You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure-all for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions

Doubt

Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism

Thank You for the Music

But your movie's kinda drab. Mamma Mia! drains the fun out of ABBA.

Guiding Big D's Sonic Pilgrims

Enough with the turkeys, now for a little locally baked dessert

The Upside of Lions for Lambs

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

Robert Redford and the American Façade

Our interview with the actor/director/producer

The Delightful Dud

Our interview with the actor/director/producer

Rendition is an Ordinary Terrorism Thriller

It's not torture, but this latest terrorism flick comes close

What a Betty

It's not torture, but this latest terrorism flick comes close

Farce of a Champion

It's not torture, but this latest terrorism flick comes close

Cruella de Vogue

The Devil Wears Prada slaps the latest duds on an infamous fashion editor

Devil's Day

This Tuesday, Satan's gaping black mouth shall spit forth...the new Ice Cube CD

Winging It

With candor (and Ebb!) T3 salutes musicals; Angels flutter down at the Bath House

Child's Play

With candor (and Ebb!) T3 salutes musicals; Angels flutter down at the Bath House

Lost in Translation

All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

Sour Lemony

Jim Carrey's in fine form, but the rest of Snicket is less fortunate

Summer Camp

Demme goes for the knowing giggle in his Candidate overhaul

Farrelly Mediocre

The idiots what brung you Dumb and Dumber ain't funny no more

Nobody's Fool

He has three Oscars, co-wrote Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Newman digs him. So why don't you know Dallas-born filmmaker Robert Benton?

Sour Hours

Streep, Moore and Kidman reveal it's sad to be sad

We Meet Again, Mr. Bond

Plus: Empty Pocket, Sensitivity Training, Parting Words

On-screen violins

Not to worry, Wes Craven's tearjerking Music of the Heart has a happy ending

USA Film Festival

Not to worry, Wes Craven's tearjerking Music of the Heart has a happy ending

Child's Play: Julie Powell Talks About Having Her Life Made Into a Movie. Kind Of.

Julie Powell​Word is the Dallas Museum of Art still has overflow-simulcast tickets left for tonight's appearance by Julie Powell, the former blogger-turned-book author whose moniker makes up one half of the movie title Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as the Au ... More >>

In Julie & Julia, Two Biopics Boil Down to Half-Greatness

Julie Powell​Word is the Dallas Museum of Art still has overflow-simulcast tickets left for tonight's appearance by Julie Powell, the former blogger-turned-book author whose moniker makes up one half of the movie title Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as the Au ... More >>

My, My! How Can We Resist You?

Julie Powell​Word is the Dallas Museum of Art still has overflow-simulcast tickets left for tonight's appearance by Julie Powell, the former blogger-turned-book author whose moniker makes up one half of the movie title Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as the Au ... More >>

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Julie Powell​Word is the Dallas Museum of Art still has overflow-simulcast tickets left for tonight's appearance by Julie Powell, the former blogger-turned-book author whose moniker makes up one half of the movie title Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as the Au ... More >>

DFW Crix Up in the Air With Year-End Tally

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its tops-o'-2009 list; it follows in full after the jump. But, first, this teaser: Dodging critical conventional wisdom that has put Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker at the top of most critics' polls, the DFWCA instead opted to follow ... More >>

It's Complicated is Simply Bad

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its tops-o'-2009 list; it follows in full after the jump. But, first, this teaser: Dodging critical conventional wisdom that has put Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker at the top of most critics' polls, the DFWCA instead opted to follow ... More >>

Our Three Critics Each Pick Their Three Favorite Films Of The Decade--And Surprise, There's Not A Sequel Or A Prequel In The Bunch

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its tops-o'-2009 list; it follows in full after the jump. But, first, this teaser: Dodging critical conventional wisdom that has put Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker at the top of most critics' polls, the DFWCA instead opted to follow ... More >>

T Bone Burnett Wins Golden Globe, Meryl Streep's Admiration

Who's the big winner? T Bone's the big winner!​Sorry if you missed last night's Golden Globes awards ceremony on NBC. Mostly because, well, this is probably your first look at Mad Men's Christina Hendricks and her digs from last night. (Daaaaaaaaaaamn!)But also because you missed this: Fort Worth ... More >>

Ladies sling the booze in Blue Moon Dancing; Circle Theatre has a classical gas with Bach at Leipzig.

Shpiel Magnolias

Gift Ideas for Cooks When a Dreidel Isn't Enough

Since Chanukah's not traditionally a gift-giving holiday (it's a minor festival trumped up to keep assimilation-minded Jews from celebrating Christmas, but I'll save that screed for another day), I typically don't bother making a wish list. As a kid, my loot usually consisted of dreidels and socks, ... More >>

Descendants Ascends to Top of DFW Crix List

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months -- though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and ... not bad -- I can't argue with this year's list as I've don ... More >>

Best Films of 2011: People of the Year

Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

The Iron Lady: Pity the Poor PM

Margaret Thatcher as victimized woman.