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

Best Films of 2011: People of the Year

Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Video Game Overinflated for Big Screen

Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

Robin Hood joins the Tea Party

Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 Finds The Rapper Accepting His Age. Finally.

Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

Aliens, Plural

You mean there's more than one?

Body of Lies follows the fight against terror into cyberspace

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy thriller we deserve

Laughing Pains

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy thriller we deserve

Singular Sensation

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy thriller we deserve

Born to Run

See a sci-fi classic at the Inwood

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

See a sci-fi classic at the Inwood

Review: Ridley Scott's American Gangster

The portrait of a '70s dope CEO may not be epic, but it's still super-fly

Weed Killer

The portrait of a '70s dope CEO may not be epic, but it's still super-fly

Heart Attack

Attempting romantic comedy, Sir Ridley Scott conquers neither

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Your Show of Shows

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Romeo in the Rough

Tristan & Isolde's clumsy romance may make you crave Shakespeare

Why We Need DVDs

Tristan & Isolde's clumsy romance may make you crave Shakespeare

War: What Is It Good For?

In Ridley Scott's latest epic, it's good for one really stunning siege

Five Golden Reels

The Deep Ellum Film Festival grows up--nicely

Con Heir

In Matchstick Men, a father meets daughter and sets a paper moon ablaze

In Character

You know the face; the name is Tobolowsky

Flesh for Fantasy

Brett Ratner tarts up this Red Dragon adaptation

Best Computer Store

Apple Store

Made on the Margins

For 15 years, the Dallas Video Fest has flickered on the fringe

Revolting

The New Guy offers the same ol' thing: dopey crap for kids

Rock in Role

As The Scorpion King, the People's Champ doth layeth the smacketh down

Devil's Advocate

Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

Hell and Back

Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors

Are You In or Out?

Or, one man's passion for Clooney, killers, kooks and corn

Fava Beans and Ham

Hannibal proves that Hopkins without Foster just doesn't equate

Zellweger in Love

Nurse Betty ain't Shakespeare, but Neil LaBute's riff on shallow fantasies comes close

Young Blood

Joel and Ethan Coen pull down the pants on their first film

Chicken Caesar

Gladiator doesn't lack heroism or spectacle, but its drama is tainted by cowardice

The final cut

DVDs pull back the curtain on the movies, but do you really want to see the Wizard?

Pitch it

Alien + Raiders of the Lost Ark - interesting = Pitch Black

Celluloid as sedative

In a perfect world, movies as dull as Random Hearts wouldn't get made

Ad it up

In a perfect world, movies as dull as Random Hearts wouldn't get made

The wild--and mild--bunch

Warner Bros. celebrates its 75th birthday with a weeklong best-of fest

All duded up

Jeff Bridges' wacked-out stoner carries the Coens' The Big Lebowski

Send in the clones

Art director brings flair to the franchise

Naval gazing

G.I. Jane is liberated, all right--from good acting and a good story

Star whores

With The Fifth Element, Luc Besson swipes from science fiction past to create a slick, vacuous future

The dark half

That Thing You Do and The Long Kiss Goodnight cast ugly shadows

Set adrift

White Squall's pious mythologizing sinks its rousing action scenes

Time is not on your side

Real time movies like Nick of Time are the clever antithesis of real cinema

Something to brag about

Julia Roberts delivers a relationship comedy that doesn't betray us

In the mood

The phrase 'biological clock' gets a homicidal overhaul in the terrific monster movie Species

Disorder in the court

Queen Margot and The Madness of King George explore the dark side of royalty

Bloodlust

Interview with the Vampire and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein try to invigorate the horror genre