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Christopher Kelly

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% C+ EDIT “If you liked the first two, by all means, go forth and experience rapture. But for those of us who remain unconvinced, well, The Return of the King feels like an especially slow swim through especially slow mud.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “A little of this goes a really long way. The Two Towers may not have bored me to tears, but it certainly made me want to cry uncle.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 2/4 EDIT “Bloated and overlong, with production designed to the hilt... [and] often just plain boring -- the film is nothing more than the schlocky Hollywood popcorn movie of the month, Planet of the Apes or The Mummy Returns with prestigious literary credentials.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Superman Returns (2006) 72% C EDIT “Running more than two and a half hours, most of them on fumes, Superman Returns barely has enough story for a movie half its length.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible III (2006) 73% EDIT “Abrams has put forth the most James Bond-like installment of the franchise, paying little attention to plausibility and even less to the laws of physics.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com May 21, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 62% 2.5/5 EDIT “Though Attack of the Clones shows flashes of grandeur, it is for the most part labored and monotonous -- a chore to sit through.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 79% C+ EDIT “[Lucas] built a perfect beast but left out the heart. ” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 42% 2/4 EDIT “The movie is a curious bird -- a piece of self-hating kitsch. As in his 1996 comedy Mars Attacks!, Burton seems vaguely irritated by the prospect of having to deliver a mainstream pop blockbuster. So his strategy is to detach himself from the material.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Mean Girls (2004) 84% B+ EDIT “Mean Girls offers an enjoyably mean-spirited spin on a subject that most other recent movies... have treated as sacrosanct. ” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Jan 8, 2024 Full Review Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 76% B+ EDIT “Eastwood has been more interested in breaking down myths and showing us the human cost of violence and conflict. Flags of Our Fathers soberly and intelligently continues that tradition. ” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Nov 11, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% EDIT “It's still the same old schlock -- a deeply cynical, morally corrupted, often utterly senseless work that has somehow been raised to the status of greatness. ” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Sep 28, 2023 Full Review Y tu mamá también (2001) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Cuarón is obviously working in well-trod territory, the coming-of-age genre. But everything about the film is so vibrantly conceived that nothing seems familiar.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Sep 9, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% 3/5 EDIT “That's Traffic's problem in a nutshell. Soderbergh has grabbed onto fascinating material. But for some reason he seems afraid to give his audience a real high.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% 2.5/5 EDIT “[Luhrmann] fills Moulin Rouge with startling images and deliciously weird performances... But there is nothing holding this movie together -- not a compelling story, and certainly not enough original ideas.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Aug 30, 2023 Full Review In the Mood for Love (2000) 92% 5/5 EDIT “This is Wong's seventh film, and his work grows more intoxicating each time around. Little happens in his movies, and yet you can't tear your eyes away from them.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% 4.5/5 EDIT “Even if all is not immediately apparent the film is still addictively entertaining -- as arresting, playful and creepy as anything in Lynch's Twin Peaks or Blue Velvet.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Jul 11, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 77% 2/5 EDIT “Instead of reinventing Indiana Jones for a new era, Spielberg just makes it seem like every other summer movie cluttering the multiplex.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Apr 12, 2023 Full Review Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 50% 3/5 EDIT “Depp and Del Toro deliver deliciously overstuffed ham-sandwich performances that more than compensate for the film's fractured narrative. But the real star here is director Gilliam.” – Premiere Magazine Feb 14, 2023 Full Review 8 1/2 Women (1999) 41% EDIT “Greenaway remains one of cinema's most innovative and witty visual compositionists, and the film's appealingly breezy tone makes this his least pretentious work in years.” – Out Magazine May 25, 2022 Full Review Last Night (1998) 85% EDIT “McKellar occasionally drifts into sentimentality, but his able cast and strange vision of a community struggling to come to terms with its limitations prove deeply affecting.” – Out Magazine May 24, 2022 Full Review Sex: The Annabel Chong Story (1999) 45% EDIT “Ambitious and frustrating in equal measure.” – Out Magazine May 24, 2022 Full Review Girlfight (2000) 87% 2/5 EDIT “What makes Girtfight such a chore to watch is that it isn't content to wallow in its own shamelessness.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Mar 24, 2021 Full Review The Artist (2011) 95% EDIT “Michel Hazanavicius' black-and-white, mostly silent comedy The Artist is a gorgeously made curiosity -- a film that functions as a testament to its own obsession with other movies.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Feb 17, 2015 Full Review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) 96% 4/5 EDIT “For 10 years and eight films we've gotten to watch these young actors grow as people, as performers and as characters. It has been a true coming-of-age saga, in the fullest and most moving sense of the term.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Nov 18, 2014 Full Review The Cabin in the Woods (2011) 92% 2/5 EDIT “The setup is intriguing but the balance feels off. Goddard and Whedon overplay the winking postmodernism.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Oct 6, 2014 Full Review
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