Christopher Kelly
Tomatometer-approved critic
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
61%
2.5/5
“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
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
79%
C+
“[Lucas] built a perfect beast but left out the heart. ” –
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Apr 17, 2025
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Planet of the Apes (2001)
43%
2/4
“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
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Mean Girls (2004)
84%
B+
“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
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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
76%
B+
“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
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The Exorcist (1973)
78%
“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
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Y tu mamá también (2001)
90%
5/5
“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
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Traffic (2000)
93%
3/5
“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
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Moulin Rouge (2001)
75%
2.5/5
“[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
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
92%
5/5
“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
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Mulholland Dr. (2001)
84%
4.5/5
“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
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
77%
2/5
“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
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
51%
3/5
“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
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8 1/2 Women (1999)
42%
“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
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Last Night (1998)
85%
“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
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Sex: The Annabel Chong Story (1999)
45%
“Ambitious and frustrating in equal measure.” –
Out Magazine
May 24, 2022
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Girlfight (2000)
87%
2/5
“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
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The Artist (2011)
95%
“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
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
96%
4/5
“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
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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
92%
2/5
“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
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The King's Speech (2010)
94%
3/5
“A polite, occasionally rousing, and more often than not, boring affair.” –
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Feb 16, 2013
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Hall Pass (2011)
33%
1/4
“Any time a movie needs to resort to two sequences involving unexpected bowel moments for laughs, you know you're in trouble.” –
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Feb 24, 2011
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Carlos (2010)
93%
5/5
“Carlos deserves mention alongside the greatest suspense thrillers ever made.” –
Dallas Morning News
Jan 7, 2011
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Love & Other Drugs (2010)
49%
2/5
“One or two provocative bits emerge from the incoherence.” –
Dallas Morning News
Nov 24, 2010
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Fair Game (2010)
78%
4/5
“What the filmmakers do capture brilliantly is the human cost of espionage and political gamesmanship.” –
Dallas Morning News
Nov 4, 2010
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