In Theaters: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

As evidenced by its record-testing midnight engagements, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is probably just as (if not more) review-proof as any movie this summer. It's usually an observation reserved for the inauspicious likes of Transformers and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with their pots of gold at the ends of two crap-colored rainbows. Yet it's equally important to note for something as fantastic as Potter, which, for all its elegance, drama, beauty, humor and gravity, is still widely perceived as little beyond a movie for kids and the geeks they grow into. That may or may not be enough for Warner Bros., but after a long, tough summer at the movies, adults deserve something with this much class.