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I've posted this feature every year since 2009. Now I get to post it here. www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/23/t...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2025
I thought I’d post this annual feature a bit early so that you’re not overly slammed in the coming days when I put my other best lists of 2025’s movies on this site. My annual caveats: I take the dial...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I've posted this feature every year since 2009. Now I get to post it here. www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/23/t...
This might be Timothée Chalamet's greatest performance. www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/23/m...
<em>Marty Supreme</em>: Paddle to the Metal
A couple of years ago, people started speaking of Timothée Chalamet and other male actors as “rodent men,” with their prominent teeth and messy hair. I don’t know how some of those other actors might ...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This might be Timothée Chalamet's greatest performance. www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/23/m...
I voted in this poll: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/17/d...
DFW Film Critics Pick <em>One Battle After Another</em>
As we do each December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association has picked its best movies of the year, and the big winner is One Battle After Another. The epic conspiracy thriller picked up aw...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I voted in this poll: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/17/d...
I recap the career of the murdered director. I was surprised to find out how many other good directors had cast him as an actor. www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/16/r...
R.I.P., Rob Reiner
When the news reports first dropped that two people had been found dead in Rob Reiner’s house in Brentwood, Calif., I’ll admit that the idea that Rob Reiner might be among them didn’t even occur to me...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I recap the career of the murdered director. I was surprised to find out how many other good directors had cast him as an actor. www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/16/r...
Rodrygo backs his embattled coach at Real Madrid: therealchamps.com/rodrygo-most...
Rodrygo just made the most convincing Xabi Alonso argument yet
We’ve written in this space about Rodrygo’s goal drought, but if there’s one thing we learn from watching sports, it’s that streaks always end.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Rodrygo backs his embattled coach at Real Madrid: therealchamps.com/rodrygo-most...
Why Xavi Simons is becoming key to Spurs' success: hotspurhq.com/micky-van-de...
Micky van de Ven just screamed what Tottenham fans been whispering
His fellow Dutchman has become a key to Spurs' success. Now, Micky van de Ven has voiced the opinions of Tottenham fans everywhere.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Why Xavi Simons is becoming key to Spurs' success: hotspurhq.com/micky-van-de...
Why James L. Brooks' comedies always make me angry: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/11/e...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Why James L. Brooks' comedies always make me angry: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/11/e...
I named Mamoru Hosoda's last movie the best film of its year. This is not. www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/10/s...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I named Mamoru Hosoda's last movie the best film of its year. This is not. www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/10/s...
Always a pleasure writing about Stephen Sondheim: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/03/m...
<em>Merrily We Roll Along</em>: Good Thing Going
Richard Linklater is currently filming his own version of Merrily We Roll Along with Paul Mescal, Ben Platt, and Beanie Feldstein. He’s doing it à la Boyhood, in piecemeal fashion over a long period o...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Always a pleasure writing about Stephen Sondheim: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/03/m...
Chloe Zhao is tremendous: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/04/h...
<em>Hamnet</em>: About a Boy
These are the facts: William Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet. The boy died of bubonic plague at the age of 11. Shortly after that, Shakespeare started working on the play called Hamlet. This has ha...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Chloe Zhao is tremendous: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/04/h...
I preview what's on offer at the multiplexes this holiday season: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/03/h...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I preview what's on offer at the multiplexes this holiday season: www.fwweekly.com/2025/12/03/h...
Tottenham's new striker has changed the look of their offense. hotspurhq.com/daniel-levy-...
Daniel Levy looks like a genius for leaving Tottenham with this parting gift
Daniel Levy might not have always been popular among Tottenham fans, but he did leave an epic parting gift.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Tottenham's new striker has changed the look of their offense. hotspurhq.com/daniel-levy-...
This will be a player come Oscar season. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/26/s...
<em>Sentimental Value</em>: Father-Daughter Act
Ask most film scholars to name a great Swedish director, and they’ll say Ingmar Bergman. Ask them for a great Finnish director, and they’ll say Aki Kaurismäki. Ask them for a great Danish director, an...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This will be a player come Oscar season. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/26/s...
The latest Benoit Blanc mystery finds a religious angle. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/26/w...
<em>Wake Up Dead Man</em>: Murder on the Church Floor
I don’t know whether to call Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery a Christian film. It’s about Christianity, at any rate. We learn that Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) was raised in a deeply religious h...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The latest Benoit Blanc mystery finds a religious angle. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/26/w...
This comedy about the afterlife scores some laughs initially. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/26/e...
<em>Eternity</em>: Good Places
In 1998, the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda made a highly atypical work for him called After Life. Depicting life after death as a Buddhist temple and movie studio, it remains one of his best mo...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This comedy about the afterlife scores some laughs initially. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/26/e...
I write about Real Madrid and the African Cup of Nations. therealchamps.com/one-player-r...
The one player Real Madrid will be without due to AFCON
The list of Africans who have played for Real Madrid is not long. This season, though, they will miss one player to AFCON.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I write about Real Madrid and the African Cup of Nations. therealchamps.com/one-player-r...
I turn my little eye to the problems making goals at Borussia Dortmund. bvbbuzz.com/dortmund-no-...
Dortmund has no choice but to make a transfer at playmaker to save their season
The one position that Dortmund desperately needs to strengthen in January is painfully obvious at this point.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I turn my little eye to the problems making goals at Borussia Dortmund. bvbbuzz.com/dortmund-no-...
Here's my review of the end of Wicked. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/19/w...
<em>Wicked</em>: Dark Green
When I reviewed the first Wicked movie, I led off by wondering why the Broadway musical had been split into two parts for the film version. Now, after watching Wicked: For Good, I get it. As a stand-a...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Here's my review of the end of Wicked. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/19/w...
I take a break from writing about Chelsea to write about Liverpool: rushthekop.com/5-liverpool-...
5 Liverpool players who might not make the World Cup at this stage
These Liverpool players might not get the chance to play on the biggest stage in the sport.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I take a break from writing about Chelsea to write about Liverpool: rushthekop.com/5-liverpool-...
This is much better than the Schwarzenegger film: www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/12/r...
<em>Running Man</em>: Ben on the Run
Would it be sacrilegious if I said that the new version of The Running Man is a better movie than One Battle After Another? Both films are structured as thrillers with a “fight the power” message for ...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is much better than the Schwarzenegger film: www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/12/r...
The Predator movies are much better than they were before the pandemic: www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/06/p...
<em>Predator</em>: Killing Kinds
While Dan Trachtenberg has now directed three movies in the Predator series, Predator: Badlands is the first one that you’ll be able to see on the big screen. That’s because the COVID pandemic relegat...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The Predator movies are much better than they were before the pandemic: www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/06/p...
Jennifer Lawrence comes unhinged. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/06/d...
<em>Die My Love</em>: Mad Mama
Lynne Ramsay hasn’t received much play in North Texas. Of course, she’s only directed five feature films since her debut film Ratcatcher in 1999. Morvern Callar only played at the Modern Art Museum in...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Jennifer Lawrence comes unhinged. www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/06/d...
Who's watching this Hulu show? www.fwweekly.com/2025/11/06/w...
We’ve Got <em>The Lowdown</em>
We had a Pedro Pascal summer, and now it’s given way to an Ethan Hawke fall. (Everything he’s not in this season, fellow Texan actor Mckenna Grace is.) In just the previous two months, the Oscar-nominated movie star reprised his role as a serial child murderer in Black Phone 2 and gave perhaps the performance of…
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November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The matchup between the two Ohio teams is called Hell Is Real. mlsmultiplex.com/most-impress...
The most impressive part of Columbus Crew's hammering of Cincinnati was not the goals
The MLS playoffs have given us a new chapter in the Hell Is Real derby, with Ohio rivals FC Cincinnati matched up against Columbus Crew.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The matchup between the two Ohio teams is called Hell Is Real. mlsmultiplex.com/most-impress...
My analysis of Chelsea's defense. Seriously, Qarabag FK? theprideoflondon.com/simple-reaso...
The simple reason why Chelsea keeps conceding so many goals
Enzo Maresca still doesn't know what his best defense is. This can sometimes be a good thing, but it is actively harming Chelsea.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My analysis of Chelsea's defense. Seriously, Qarabag FK? theprideoflondon.com/simple-reaso...