Susan Sarandon

A Stoner Has a Date With Destiny in Jeff, Who Lives at Home.

Don't Dream It, Be It

The Lovely Bones

Bite Down

Vampires fight hunger at the Inwood

Fast Track to Nowhere

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer

Romance & Cigarettes

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer

Enchanted: What a Toad

Fairy-tale land and real world collide to no good end in Enchanted

Walk Through the Valley

Don't let Paul Haggis' heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Necessary Evil

Don't let Paul Haggis' heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Gut feelings

Plano = soccer moms, SUVs...and anti-war protesters?

When Stars Don't Align

Plano = soccer moms, SUVs...and anti-war protesters?

Crowe Flies Home

Elizabethtown is a mess, not that its director should care

Candy Caine

Jude Law's Alfie puts a pretty face on what was an ugly story

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Jude Law's Alfie puts a pretty face on what was an ugly story

Dungeons and Drag Queens

CTD revives sweet, raunchy Rocky Horror; Arthur's in the dark in PRT's Camelot

The Soft-Shoe Soft Sell

Gere and J. Lo Dance, and there's nothing dirty about it

Greek Out

Distributors still don't honeymoon with small romantic comedies

A Twist of the Wrist

Aren’t wine drinkers sissies?

Rescued, 9/11

A writer helps a New York City fireman mourn his Guys

War Torn

Or, how CNN has made this column more irrelevant than usual

Fly Cook

Jeff Moschetti joins team ZaZa

That '70s Movie

Moonlight Mile wastes its setting and its stars

Burr, Not Chilly

With the rich, says Igby, always a little pity

Almost? Not Even.

Penny Lane grows up and looks kind of like her mom--no, her Sister

Oh, the Horror

1975 Picture Show keeps its audience involved

All Bark

Cats & Dogs doesn't quite build a better mousetrap

The last word

Stanley Tucci's Secret is a poignant look at a writer and his curious subject

Robber barren

Paul Newman fails to score in this empty caper flick

Coming to blows

Play It to the Bone prances, staggers, then goes down for the count

Cradle and all

Tim Robbins' Orson Welles project bites off more than it can chew

Mommy weirdest

Anywhere But Here leaves Susan Sarandon flat on her face

Sweet bird of youth

In Guinevere, she's a lot younger, but he's a lot dumber

A family affair

John Turturro sheds some Illuminati on his role as writer, director, and -- oh, yeah -- actor

The play's the thing

An ensemble work about an ensemble, Illuminata too closely resembles a far better film

Southern cross

Gothic, God, and the working class meet in Buck-Nekkid

Objection overruled

Travolta, Duvall, and filmmaker Steven Zaillian make a strong case for A Civil Action

Emotional rescue

Stepmom is a great cry for a good reason

Fade away

Twilight is all poses and fogged-in platitudes

Dynamic duo

Sapphic sistersslug it out with the mobin the terrific Bound

Par for the course

Golf is the latest sport victimized by sexual mythologising in Tin Cup

Stay of execution

Last Dance struggles with the burden of being Dead Man Walking lite

Women, on the verge

Studios and audiences are embracing an overdue trend: female-empowerment films

Fat 'n juicy

Walt Disney takes a bittersweet bite of Roald Dahl in James and the Giant Peach

High voltage

Dead Man Walking hits your mind and heart like a lightning bolt

Dallas Observer critics Jimmy Fowler and James Mardis selected the following films on their lists of the year's best:

Dead Man Walking hits your mind and heart like a lightning bolt

Events for the week

Dead Man Walking hits your mind and heart like a lightning bolt

Stupid Dave tricks

Letterman's hijacking of the Oscars reveals his limitations

Mother lode

Susan Sarandon adds yet another panel to her gallery of modern American moms

Personal best

From a year full of startling and memorable movies, here are our favorites

Natural women

Little Women is an old-fashioned movie in the very best sense