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Why Pixar’s Latest Head Trip, Inside Out, Is One of Its Best
The animated feature wraps a lesson in behavioral science into an ambitious and visually dazzling package that's both hilarious and heartwarming.
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Mad Max: Fury Road Roars With Chaotic Delights of its Nightmarish Future
George Miller's reboot of his post-apocalyptic series is efficiently told — and batshit crazy.
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Dallas Theater Center Scores Touchdown With Colossal
The Wyly Theatre transforms into a football field for this stunning production about America's favorite sport.
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Dallas Summer Musicals’ The King and I Enchants With Grandeur, Daring
Staging this show takes bravery and deep pockets. Dallas Summer Musicals' excellent production has both.
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The Spark Lights Up the Imagination at Out of the Loop
There's a fringe festival aura that seems perfectly suited to The Spark, a new play written and directed by Kelsey Leigh Ervi.
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Leviathan‘s Political Fable Sets Man Against His Inner Beast
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan is stunningly shot and set against sprawling vistas. It is grand scaled, though often intimate, tight, and almost claustrophobic.
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Can We Expect More of the Same From the Dardenne Brothers With Two Days, One Night?
The themes that run through Two Days, One Night are familiar to the Dardenne’s particular brand of what you might call neo-social realism.
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Why Inherent Vice Feels Like a New Kind of Paul Thomas Anderson Film
A difficult adaptation of a difficult novel by Thomas Pynchon, Anderson has been quoted as saying that the process of making the film felt like a return to film school.
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Leigh, Spall Find the Art in the Artist in Mr. Turner
The film is a highly personal portrait of an artist that itself becomes a work of art worthy of preservation.
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Foxcatcher Pins Down a Fascinating Tale of Wealth and Wrestling
The film wrestles with emotions more than bodies, and offers a harrowing examination of power, wealth, and the American dream.