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Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

2012 Oscar Nominations, Complete with Snubs, Surprises, and Mehs

The nominees for the cinematic super bowl, the 2012 Academy Awards, were announced yesterday, and as always there were a few of the year's best pictures and performances that were left warming the bench by the all-powerful Academy. Martin Scorsese's Hugo leads the game with 11 nods, beating out th ... More >>

Opening Credits: Today's Cinematic Releases for Jan. 13

Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother- ... More >>

Descendants Ascends to Top of DFW Crix List

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months -- though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and ... not bad -- I can't argue with this year's list as I've don ... More >>

The Deuce Is Loose

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months -- though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and ... not bad -- I can't argue with this year's list as I've don ... More >>

DFW Film Crix, Very Social at Year's End

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its year-end best-of list, with David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook film The Social Network coming out on top -- just as it had in the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review ... More >>

DFW Crix Up in the Air With Year-End Tally

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its tops-o'-2009 list; it follows in full after the jump. But, first, this teaser: Dodging critical conventional wisdom that has put Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker at the top of most critics' polls, the DFWCA instead opted to follow ... More >>

The Mind of Malkovich

Go ahead, step behind his filing cabinet

Apocalypse Whatever

Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

Diamond Demi

See a heist flick at the Modern

What You Lookin' At? Oh, I See -- the AFI Dallas Complete Lineup.

See a heist flick at the Modern

AFI Dallas Fest Sneaks a Peek with Hunter S. Thompson, Ellen Page and Helen Hunt

See a heist flick at the Modern

Mermaids My Ass

West goes South at Borders

Now, HP Ladies Can Stay in Town to Spend a Fortune on a Haircut

West goes South at Borders

Code Red

UTA's most famous graduate takes the stage

Can't Get a Fix on Crix' Pix for Best Flix

UTA's most famous graduate takes the stage

Woman's Glib

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers

Luke Wilson? Sounds Familiar...

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers

Color Bind

What's black and white and red all over? Sin City, pal.

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Minnie Driver

Everything I've Got in My Pocket (Zoe)

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

Heavy, Man

The heart wants what the brain has to fight for in 21 Grams

Fallen Angels

Charlie's high-flying heroines kick ass, but not the sequel syndrome

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Damaged Goods

Waking Up in Reno is not that bad, but it's not that good, either

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Ones and Zeros

Simone isn't a real actress, but Simone isn't a real movie

Gregory wise-ass

Simone isn't a real actress, but Simone isn't a real movie

Pardon...Mumford?

Simone isn't a real actress, but Simone isn't a real movie

Journey, man

Kevin Bacon hasn't been in every movie ever made -- it just feels like it

Nothing Hill

What happens when two pretty movie stars fall in love? Uh, got us!

Tin men

Amid the pressure cooker of air traffic control, human foibles surface

Cattle call

Amid the pressure cooker of air traffic control, human foibles surface

Square to be hip

Coolness and a cast of dozens can't save 200 Cigarettes

Love for sale

The relentlessly earnest Playing by Heart talks itself to death

Seven-star pileup

Many talents crash and burn in Hurlyburly

Workers' compensation

A way underground film with a cast of millions!

Know when to fold 'em

Matt Damon trades his baby face for a poker face in Rounders

Talking down

Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey can't negotiate their way through this thrill-free thriller

The long trailer

The mega-hyped disaster flick Armageddon signals the death of storytelling

Cat fight

The mega-hyped disaster flick Armageddon signals the death of storytelling

On the fringes

Most of the year's best films were from the outside looking in

Hype and holler

The best of 1997 was OK, but sometimes the worst was better

Women under the influence

Robin Wright Penn and Alicia Silverstone are looking for a few good men

Going down

Air Force One nosedives into an ocean of ennui

Mother of monotony

Inventing the Abbotts drowns in vanilla carnality

Woody's melancholy baby

Everyone Says I Love You offers a New York where everyone sings show tunes

It's a wonderful life

Marvin's Room makes suffering bearable, while Ghosts is just insufferable