Kristian M. Lin
Tomatometer-approved critic
The Legend of Ochi (2025)
80%
“Saxon’s got the technical tools he needs to make good movies, but he needs the storytelling skills to go with them.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Apr 24, 2025
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The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
97%
“As Herb's title song makes clear, that is an experience worth singing about.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Apr 17, 2025
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Sinners (2025)
98%
“Even when it doesn't make sense, Sinners is an experience that frames Delta blues in a wholly unexpected way and is also a better vampire movie than last winter's Nosferatu remake.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Apr 17, 2025
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The Amateur (2025)
61%
“What would be a generic and forgettable spy thriller gains a heart because of [Malek's] presence.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Apr 10, 2025
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The Luckiest Man in America (2024)
66%
“[Hauser's] the reason to see this film, as he continues to carve out a unique niche in American movies.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Apr 8, 2025
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A Minecraft Movie (2025)
48%
“ Yes, intellectual properties can make great movies, but it takes a filmmaker with peculiar talents, and A Minecraft Movie didn’t find one.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Apr 3, 2025
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Death of a Unicorn (2025)
53%
“Death of a Unicorn is an interesting oddity, but it mostly squanders its comic talent.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Mar 27, 2025
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Disney's Snow White (2025)
40%
“ Snow White may not deserve the hate, but I can’t call it a success, either.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Mar 21, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
“A quick little exercise that entertains efficiently.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Mar 13, 2025
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Novocaine (2025)
81%
“If this movie is built around a single joke, Quaid makes the joke work.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Mar 13, 2025
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Mickey 17 (2025)
77%
“How many Oscar-winning directors would let themselves be this silly on this big a budget? Bong does, which is why we cherish him.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Mar 6, 2025
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My Dead Friend Zoe (2024)
95%
“My Dead Friend Zoe is just odd enough to be worth its 100 or so minutes.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Mar 4, 2025
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No Other Land (2024)
100%
“Its very existence is deeply moving. Its excellence, however, makes it worthy of its awards.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Feb 20, 2025
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Armand (2024)
75%
“Armand would probably work better as a stage play than it does as a film, but either way, it rises and falls on the strength of its lead performance, and this movie has the right one.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Feb 14, 2025
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Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
48%
“Captain America: Brave New World and its back-to-basics approach feels like the reset that the superfranchise could use.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Feb 14, 2025
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I'm Still Here (2024)
97%
“On an intellectual level, it connects. It just feels too much like a history lesson.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Feb 10, 2025
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Detective Chinatown 1900 (2025)
“It is ingenious how the plot incorporates the stage magician who calls himself Ching Ling Foo (Wei Xiang) into the story as a witness in the murder case. ” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Feb 7, 2025
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
97%
“The movie’s climax is a political and psychological masterstroke.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Jan 31, 2025
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Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)
93%
“The ingenuity laced with pure madness that gave rise to this play is something that may well inspire your next creative jag, whether you’re a gamer or a theater nerd.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Jan 21, 2025
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
“Pearce gives the performance of his career here as a man whose facade of plain-spoken manners hides a sexual psychosis that ultimately destroys him.
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Fort Worth Weekly
Jan 16, 2025
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Better Man (2024)
88%
“Turns out it’s easy being innovative with these music biopics. All they had to do was add a monkey.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Jan 10, 2025
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Nosferatu (2024)
84%
“[Eggers] version of the story hews so closely to Murnau’s movie that it flaws his vision. ” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Jan 7, 2025
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
82%
“Beyond the Dylan songs themselves, A Complete Unknown gives us little idea about what made the music star into such a great American artist. You might as well buy a greatest-hits album, or the movie’s soundtrack.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Jan 7, 2025
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Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
56%
“Compared to Disney’s slavish recent remakes of The Lion King, The Jungle Book, and even The Little Mermaid, this movie offers up a lot more food for thought because of its original story” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Dec 24, 2024
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
48%
“Compared to other anime films, this is middling fare at best.” –
Fort Worth Weekly
Dec 12, 2024
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