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Fort Worth Weekly is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Chase Whale, Kristian M. Lin.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Kristian M. Lin It takes a peculiar set of traits and skills to portray this singular figure in Christian history, especially as a musical heroine. It truly feels like no actor except Seyfried could have done justice either to her or to The Testament of Ann Lee.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Kristian M. Lin This film demonstrates how the prosperous can just as easily become so desperate. These Korean filmmakers point out our society’s flaws and what they do to us better than just about any other country’s. Like this film’s achievement, that’s stupendous.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Kristian M. Lin I appreciate how The Bone Temple is a story that takes place inside the world of the 28 Years Later movies without misplacing the character of the preceding films, and adds to the franchise’s world building without forgetting the story.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Kristian M. Lin The movie and Chalamet’s performance both reach true greatness among 2025’s best cinematic achievements.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Kristian M. Lin Though some snappier writing by Rebecca Sonnenshine could have helped, The Housemaid is an improvement on the book and about as good an adaptation as we could have expected. That makes for a neat Christmas present at the multiplex.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Kristian M. Lin If the Ash people aren’t enough to make Avatar: Fire and Ash worth recommending, they do at least offer a safety valve from the didacticism and sanctimony that infested Cameron’s previous entries in the saga.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Kristian M. Lin Maybe if Ella McCay didn’t insist on Ella being so gosh-darned adorable (and if the jokes had been funnier), this might have been the political comedy we needed. But then that probably would have required a new director and maybe a new cast.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Scarlet (2025) Kristian M. Lin Scarlet has more than a bit of evidence that Hosoda is a major voice in anime, and indeed animated film in general.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Kristian M. Lin This is one filmed Broadway production that feels dynamic rather than like a museum piece, and that makes Merrily We Roll Along the concert movie of the year.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Hamnet (2025) Kristian M. Lin It was overly emotion, so contrived.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Kristian M. Lin There's no logic... no scares.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Kristian M. Lin Sentimental Value relies more on the old-fashioned virtues of character insight and good writing and acting.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Kristian M. Lin If the unwinding of the mystery is a bit too labored, Wake Up Dead Man gives us something new about the detective at its center and also cleverly uses the fact that more than one man in the story wears his hair Jesus-style like the monsignor.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Kristian M. Lin A funny romantic film that doesn’t quite reach the heights of Kore-eda’s masterpiece but is diverting nonetheless.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Kristian M. Lin Partitioning the movies this way makes this second film into a showcase for Grande as much as the first one was for Erivo.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Kristian M. Lin Despite its intellectual shortcomings, it’s a great time from a filmmaker who deserves a bigger audience.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Kristian M. Lin I find Badlands to be not as strong a piece of work as those predecessors, but its visuals do merit the screens of your multiplex.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Kristian M. Lin While there are better movies than Die My Love about its subject, Ramsay’s and Lawrence’s particular blend of mess and control makes hers something to be seen.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Kristian M. Lin Even though we should despise Teddy for what his actions ultimately lead to Plemons finds the pathos in the character’s desire to believe that he knows things that no one else on Earth does.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Kristian M. Lin If I Had Legs I’d Kick You does manage to end on a hopeful note, but despite that and its director’s talent, it still emerges as a haunted-house carnival ride.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Kristian M. Lin Hawke’s performance is more than persuasive enough. In fact, it might just be his best work ever.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Kristian M. Lin If you are new to Reichardt, her total command of what’s happening on the screen is compelling stuff for a while.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Kristian M. Lin For one thing, it looks amazing, and while you could say that about all of Del Toro’s films, this is more resplendent than anything of his since 2015’s Crimson Peak.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Kristian M. Lin There is complexity here, too much for the filmmakers to handle. If none of the characters here are pristine, the movie doesn’t reap any of the benefits you’d expect from that.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Kristian M. Lin The breakout star here, though, is Tonatiuh...
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Boy (2025) Kristian M. Lin Of all the movies I’ve seen that were told from the dog’s point of view, Good Boy is one of the few that followed me home after I left the auditorium.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Kristian M. Lin If this is a springboard for The Rock to take on more complex roles, I say bring it on.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Kristian M. Lin The resulting air of breakneck humor helps to make this one of Anderson’s more purely enjoyable movies.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ugly (2024) Kristian M. Lin Proves that [Yeon Sang-ho] can tell a good story without all the bells and whistles.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
In Whose Name? (2025) Kristian M. Lin The footage here is of value just on its own.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Kristian M. Lin Him is supposed to be about a player who discovers that he’s not willing to burn his soul or his family to become the greatest of all time, but it’s too overheated and undercooked to tell that story.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Kristian M. Lin Here the changes of scene feel arbitrary, the touches of absurd humor fall flat, and the dialogue is too often flowery.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Kristian M. Lin It’s nothing less than this generation’s Shawshank Redemption.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Splitsville (2025) Kristian M. Lin The director doesn’t let the farcical energy flag during this film’s 100 minutes, something that could easily be overlooked given how heavily his movies lean on their dialogue and acting.
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught Stealing (2025) Kristian M. Lin In fact, the only thing keeping this film from forgettability is Butler’s performance as a drunk who hasn’t yet faced the defining trauma of his life...
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Kristian M. Lin The movie squeezes big-name talent into small roles, and the casting feels fun instead of overstuffed.
Posted Aug 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Ne Zha II (2025) Kristian M. Lin It’s not the best animated movie this year or even this week, but it’s better than much of the stuff Hollywood has put out for kids this season, and if you’re new to Chinese animation, it’s an intro worth making.
Posted Aug 21, 2025  Edit critic review
East of Wall (2025) Kristian M. Lin Maybe East of Wall doesn’t have much new to say about the hardscrabble lives lived in this remote area of the country, but I do feel like the 97 minutes that I spent in these people’s company was well worth my time.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Kristian M. Lin It gives us a big-picture view of our fragmented society that will chill you to the core.
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Together (2025) Kristian M. Lin Either way, where romantic comedies are about the joy of bonding to another person for life, this horror movie addresses the terrors of that experience by making that bond literal.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Sorry, Baby (2025) Kristian M. Lin If I’m making this sound grim, you should know that Victor cuts this with a great deal of leavening humor
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Oh, Hi! (2025) Kristian M. Lin There’s very little fat in this 98-minute film, and some of the jokes land even when they’re not meant to
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Kristian M. Lin With all these ideas knocking around, Aster can’t give any of them proper treatment.
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Kristian M. Lin The edges of the film give Gunn a chance to flash a sense of humor that the previous Superman films have all lacked.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Queen of My Dreams (2023) Kristian M. Lin This modest film ended up broadening my horizons, and that is worth a trip to the theater.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Kristian M. Lin F1: The Movie shows off many of the things that [Kosinski] does exceptionally well.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Kristian M. Lin The set pieces don’t measure up to the ones in the previous films, and while we do learn what happens when a zombie is pregnant, the bits of lore don’t add much to our understanding of this fictional world.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Elio (2025) Kristian M. Lin What’s frustrating is that it comes so close to greatness, or at least really goodness. However, it spends enough time headed to that place to warrant the ticket prices for you and your child.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Kristian M. Lin Song’s ability to squeeze great drama out of this setup makes her one of America’s most promising filmmakers right now, and makes this movie a treasure.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballerina (2025) Kristian M. Lin The star’s feminine grace at least injects some freshness into this franchise.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
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