From incantations that protect against the dark arts to charms that will stuff a week’s worth of luggage into your purse, TIME takes a look at the best spells from J.K. Rowling’s famous wizards
Movies
Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise
The blockbuster series reaches its climax in a solid, satisfying final film
Zookeeper: Kevin James’ Animal Distraction
The star can be funny and endearing, but here he’s buried under derivative gags and ritual humiliation
Horrible Bosses. So-So Movie. Excellent Jason Bateman!
It’s Hangover Hitchcock, with guys putting toothbrushes down their pants, locking each other out of cars, debating who would get raped in prison first and bumbling through a plot to commit murder
Larry Crowne: Tom Hanks’s Unemployment for Beginners
Losing your job ain’t so bad when you get to date Julia Roberts
The New Transformers: Turn On the Dark
For good or ill, director Michael Bay is the soul of a new machine, the poet of post-human cinema, the CEO of Hollywood’s military-entertainment complex
Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher: What’s Her Motivation?
The saggy premise of her new comedy could use some augmentation
Cars 2: A Pixar Fantasy That Runs Out of Gas
In Pixar’s latest, an unlikely friendship runs out of gas
The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films
They’ve enthralled or terrified generations of kids, and now they’re giant worldwide blockbusters. So what are the best animated features of all time? Using an obscure system of weights and measures, TIME’s Richard Corliss has …
A Q&A with Cars 2 Director John Lasseter
Lasseter talked to TIME about the latest installment of his beloved ‘Cars’ franchise, working with Michael Caine and the late Paul Newman, as well as the future of 3-D
26th Anniversary of JAWS – Memories from Martha’s Vineyard
A new book published on the anniversary of JAWS’s release shares hundreds of rare photographs taken by local Martha’s Vineyard participants and bystanders
Buck: Horseman, Don’t Pass By
Real-life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman is the star of an affecting new documentary
Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero
The Ryan Reynolds vehicle Green Lantern borrows from old film fantasies to make an Identi-Kit of blockbuster clichés