Movie Stars

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

Luke Wilson? Sounds Familiar...

Now, HP Ladies Can Stay in Town to Spend a Fortune on a Haircut

AFI Dallas Fest Sneaks a Peek with Hunter S. Thompson, Ellen Page and Helen Hunt

What You Lookin' At? Oh, I See -- the AFI Dallas Complete Lineup.

Dead bang

Sam Raimi's gonzo Western The Quick and the Dead is ludicrously entertaining

It's a wonderful life

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

Woody's melancholy baby

Everyone Says I Love You offers a New York where everyone sings show tunes

Mother of monotony

Inventing the Abbotts drowns in vanilla carnality

Going down

Air Force One nosedives into an ocean of ennui

Women under the influence

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

On the fringes

Most of the year's best films were from the outside looking in

Hype and holler

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

Cat fight

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

The long trailer

The mega-hyped disaster flick Armageddon signals the death of storytelling

Talking down

Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey can't negotiate their way through this thrill-free thriller

Know when to fold 'em

Matt Damon trades his baby face for a poker face in Rounders

Workers' compensation

A way underground film with a cast of millions!

Seven-star pileup

Many talents crash and burn in Hurlyburly

Love for sale

The relentlessly earnest Playing by Heart talks itself to death

Square to be hip

Coolness and a cast of dozens can't save 200 Cigarettes

Cattle call

Coolness and a cast of dozens can't save 200 Cigarettes

Tin men

Amid the pressure cooker of air traffic control, human foibles surface

Nothing Hill

What happens when two pretty movie stars fall in love? Uh, got us!

Gregory wise-ass

What happens when two pretty movie stars fall in love? Uh, got us!

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

The Mind of Malkovich

Go ahead, step behind his filing cabinet

Apocalypse Whatever

Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

Diamond Demi

See a heist flick at the Modern

Mermaids My Ass

West goes South at Borders

Straight Gangsta

See Goodfellas at the Inwood

Code Red

UTA's most famous graduate takes the stage

Pardon...Mumford?

UTA's most famous graduate takes the stage

Woman's Glib

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers

Color Bind

What's black and white and red all over? Sin City, pal.

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Minnie Driver

Everything I've Got in My Pocket (Zoe)

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

Heavy, Man

The heart wants what the brain has to fight for in 21 Grams

Fallen Angels

Charlie's high-flying heroines kick ass, but not the sequel syndrome

Damaged Goods

Waking Up in Reno is not that bad, but it's not that good, either

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Ones and Zeros

Simone isn't a real actress, but Simone isn't a real movie

Journey, man

Kevin Bacon hasn't been in every movie ever made -- it just feels like it

Iron butterfly

Last Seduction star Linda Fiorentino revels in bitchiness

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 >>

DFW Film Crix, Very Social at Year's End

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its year-end best-of list, with David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook film The Social Network coming out on top -- just as it had in the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review ... More >>

The Deuce Is Loose

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its year-end best-of list, with David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook film The Social Network coming out on top -- just as it had in the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review ... 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 >>