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Peppy holiday favorite for both kids and parents. Spielberg's family classic is still one of the best. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. First Potter movie is a magical ride but also intense. How to Train Your Dragon. Thrilling adventure sends brains-over-brawn message. The Incredibles.

Top-notch, action-packed fun for the entire family. The Nightmare Before Christmas. Tim Burton magic with just a touch of scariness. Song of the Sea. Beautiful Irish tale explores myths, sibling relationship. Sci-fi action classic perfect for sharing with kids. Akeelah and the Bee. Inspiring drama about a champion speller; OK for tweens. Fly Away Home. Thrilling, touching adventure for animal lovers. Howl's Moving Castle. Charming Miyazaki fairy tale with surreal villains.

Mad Hot Ballroom. Enchanting dance documentary hits all the right beats. The Princess Bride. Witty, winsome fairy tale for the whole family. Science Fair. Compelling, entertaining docu about teen science geniuses. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Pure, sweet imagination for both kids and adults. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Pro tip: Skip the sequel. Robin Williams' English teacher John Keating will leave you wanting to seize the day and live your life to the fullest.

Carpe diem, indeed. It's tough to pick just one "Lord of the Rings" movie to watch. You should really invest in the entire trilogy about the young hobbit embarking on a perilous journey to destroy an all-powerful ring. If you only have time to watch one, go with the second movie that won two Oscars and is the best-reviewed of the trilogy. His ensuing adventure of sabotaging two wannabe burglars in the neighborhood with pranks like hot tar and feathers is a holiday staple.

Sp you've watched the Disney classics? Why not switch things up with the story of a different mouse leaving NYC for the west with his family. Still not convinced? Before she was J.

After a few less-than-stellar releases, Pixar nails it with a heartwarming story about the importance of family during the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos The Day of the Dead. He winds up in search of his great-great-grandfather who he believes to be a famous guitar player in a stunningly vibrant-colored Land of the Dead. You can read our review here. The film received four Oscars. Not done with your Keanu Reeves fix?

Us neither. The unexpected Lionsgate hit is a nonstop minute rush of adrenaline of Reeves taking names as he seeks revenge on the men who killed his puppy. You read that right. It also made us fall in love with the adorable mogwai, Gizmo. Fritz Lang's thriller is about the manhunt of a serial killer who murders children. Other people hate him so much that even criminals try to catch him, teaming up with police to do so.

The major difference is Ryder's character Veronica teams up with a badboy, J. Christian Slater , to take down the group and she eventually gets in over her head. If you're looking for another good rom-com, look no further. You wouldn't think that a movie about zombies on a train could be equally funny and heartbreaking, but the South Korean apocalypse thriller is just that. For the squeamish, this movie isn't scary. Think the setting of "Snowpiercer" with the fast-moving zombies from "World War Z.

You've probably seem the image parodied somewhere: Max von Sydow, playing a knight, challenges Death himself to a chess match on the beach. The entirety of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" is loaded with allegorical, beautifully composed images like these that will haunt you with questions about death and life.

The Jennifer Garner movie about going from a teen to an adult overnight is essentially Tom Hanks' "Big" for young women.

If you're going to watch any of the "Fast and Furious" movies, we recommend watching the fifth installment which course-corrected the franchise. It united Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and more cast members from previous movies for a giant "Ocean's 11"-like heist. And let's not forget a massive brawl between Diesel and the Rock. You can read our ranking of the "Fast and Furious" movies here. Gene Wilder made every child want to win a golden ticket to visit a magical candy factory and ride down a chocolate river.

Sean Penn's performance as a father with a developmental disability fighting for custody of his daughter, who's played by a young Dakota Fanning, is both heartbreaking and warming. Leonardo DiCaprio's chemistry with Tom Hanks as a youngster con man trying to evade the law i s electric. It's one of those movies you can always watch when it's on TV. The first time you watch this movie, you think you're in for a sweet movie about two young friends who are falling in love.

One of them is played by McCauley Culkin. Then the rug is ripped up from under you. Have some tissues on standby. It's adorable watching the "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends try to sabotage Alfalfa as he attempts to court his crush Darla. The Notebook , based on Nicholas Sparks's novel, is a must-watch for all of the hopeless romantics out there who believe they'll eventually find their way back to their one true love.

It still isn't over! Amandla Stenberg gives a masterful performance in The Hate U Give —an equally heartbreaking and eye-opening film about main character Starr Stenberg who's stuck navigating between two worlds: the prep school she attends that reeks of white privilege and the mostly Black neighborhood where she lives that's harmed by police brutality. It's based on Angie Thomas's novel. The longest-running Hindi film of all time going on 25 years now! Every kid in high school dreamed of having a day off like Ferris Bueller's and, frankly, I still aspire to have one like his as an adult.

Come for each character's hilarious antics, stay for the inevitable comparisons between Alan Ruck's character, Cameron Frye, and his current character on Succession , Connor Roy. An unemployed family of four slips into the lives of the crazy wealthy Park family.

Need we say more? If you haven't watched Titanic yet please don't admit this out loud , do yourself a favor and stream it on Hulu immediately. Set in the early years of World War II in Casablanca, Rick Blaine's Humphrey Bogart nightclub is an oasis for refugees despite the warnings he gets from local authorities. But things get rocky when an ex-lover and her boyfriend show up, bringing with them a challenge that Rick has to face. One of the most famous old Hollywood films of all time, Casablanca is a love story you won't forget.

If you were alive in , you most definitely heard about Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga's on- and off-screen chemistry thanks to their roles in the hit adaptation of A Star Is Born. The movie centers on rockstar Jackson Maine Cooper and struggling artist Ally Gaga who fall in love while Maine pushes Ally into the spotlight and confronts his own demons. Make sure to have a pack of tissues handy. In her Golden Globe-winning role, Awkwafina plays Billi, a woman on a trip to China for a "family wedding" that's actually a final goodbye to her grandmother.

While there, Billi struggles to find a deeper connection to the country and tries to understand her family's decision to keep her grandmother's sickness a secret from her. Quick history lesson: Daughters of the Dust was the first feature film directed by a Black woman distributed in theaters in the U.

It tells the story of three generations of Gullah women in pre-Civil War times living on Saint Helena Island who are stuck on deciding whether to stay or migrate north for a better life. The film's scenery is stunning, but the real beauty of the film is its complex characters. Two words for you: James! The old Hollywood icon's second to last film, as teenager Jim Stark, before his untimely death in ended up being one of his most celebrated. The unlikely bond shared on-screen between him, John "Plato" Crawford Sal Mineo , and Judy Natalie Wood gave American youths at the time a movie where they could finally see themselves on the screen.

This underrated musical set at an all-Black army camp follows Carmen Dorothy Dandridge , who, despite being sought after by every man at the base, has her sights set on the super married Joe Harry Belafonte. Dandridge's performance as Carmen Jones got her nominated for an Oscar, making history as the first African American actress in a leading role to be nominated.

This very dark comedy juxtaposes one woman's insatiable quest to avenge her best friend's tragic assault in front of a backdrop of all things frilly, pink, and sweet. That stark contrast only makes the movie's incredibly intense climax that much more shocking. Robert Redford! Paul Newman!

Really strong facial hair game! What could go wrong? Well, actually, a train robbery does go wrong, leaving outlaws Butch Cassidy Newman and The Sundance Kid Redford on the run from a seriously dangerous posse as they try to leave rural Wyoming for Bolivia.

It's a Western film you can't miss. A movie about the Holocaust is almost guaranteed to be poignant, but under Stephen Spielberg's expert direction, this one surprises with its restraint.

That's deliberate—the sadness and symbolism build throughout the film so that you have a full sense of what happened, who did it, and why it matters so, so much. The movie's in black and white, with the smallest pop of color to offer a moment of hope and then devastatingly all possible heartbreak in one unforgettable image.

Jack Nicholson is on this list a few times, but this is probably his most well-known role. Then, the hotel begins to come alive with a terrible, terrifying evil. Stephen King famously hated this adaptation, because Stanley Kubrick takes out all the empathy from the patriarch Nicholson, playing crazy like he was born to do it. But it makes the story even more powerful. Viewed through today's lens, it's also a haunting look at the effects of domestic violence.

Based very, very loosely on the book of the same name, Natalie Portman is a scientist who goes in search of her husband. She enters Area X, a mutated, trippy landscape that's been expanding ever since it was hit by a meteorite. And shit just keeps getting weirder and scarier. This is directed by Alex Garland, the same guy who did Ex Machina another fascinating, freaky watch. Honestly, he's becoming the next big sci-fi director, and this proves it.

You'll never think of coconuts the same way after watching this silly British slapstick comedy set in the time of King Arthur and the fabled Round Table. God sends a group of knights on a quest to find the Holy Grail, where they encounter several nonsensical obstacles along the way. While this Italian film is about the horrors of the Holocaust, it has plenty of comic moments as well—and it works. Roberto Benigni gives a breathtaking performance as a family man who, as a Jew, is sent with his family to a concentration camp in northern Italy, but uses his imaginative powers to convince his young son that it's all a game.

Set at a New England private school in , this movie follows an English teacher, played by Robin Williams, and his relationship with his students as he teaches them to live a little more through poetry. The movie gave Williams his second Oscar nominee, and Ethan Hawke said that working on this movie inspired him to continue to be an actor. It's a little hard to believe that the Schindler's List director also came up with this dino adventure movie, but what's even more impressive is that the two films came out mere months apart.

This could not be more different, but if you're looking for a film about these prehistoric creatures, stick to the classic. There's so much loving attention paid to the dinosaurs' look—there isn't a ton of CGI, with a greater reliance on practical effects—but more importantly, the human characters are just as interesting. Samuel L. Jackson, in the best cameo of all time. It's set in Lombardy, Italy, in and follows Hammer and Chalamet's life-affirming summer of love.

Fair warning: Bring lots of tissues. This second movie in the Batman trilogy is arguably the best of the bunch. Heath Ledger sets the standard what it takes to play the Joker, as he won an Oscar for his performance. Some say it's the best superhero film ever made and we have to agree.

A semi-autobiographical take on director Lee Isaac Chung's own upbringing, Minari tells the story of a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas in pursuit of the "American dream" in the s. It's a must-see depiction of the immigrant experience in America, and was rightfully nominated for six awards at the Oscars, including Best Picture.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is terrific, of course, but Audrey Hepburn won the Academy Award for her turn as a princess who ditches her schedule and her entourage in favor of exploring Rome, only to fall asleep on a bench and get rescued by a hunky American reporter played by Gregory Peck.

A classic romance film. In this swooningly romantic movie from Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke play a pair of travelers—she French, he American—who have a chance meeting in Vienna and decide to spend the evening before his departing flight walking around the city and talking to one another. In , the sequel Before Sunset continues the story, and then in the trilogy is wrapped up with Before Midnight. All of them are worth watching over and over.

Carey Grant and Rosalind Russell play a formerly married couple—he an editor, she an investigative reporter—who have to team up for one last assignment. Of course, the fact that he hired her only after finding out she was engaged to someone new might have something to do with it, but Russell is hilarious and their chemistry is bananas in this romance.

Antoine Fuqua directs the American remake of a taut Danish thriller from Jake Gyllenhaal plays a cop who is being investigated while he moonlights as a operator and the wildfires burn through California. In these already tense conditions, he gets a call from a woman who claims to be kidnapped. Can he save her with such limited information? Alice Wu wrote and directed a delightful coming-of-age dramedy that spins the norms. A loose retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac, it features a star-making performance from Leah Lewis as Ellie Chu, a girl who starts writing love letters for the awkward Paul Munsky Daniel Diemer.

The object of his affection, Aster Flores Alexxis Lemire , turns out to be more than just a typical unrequited love. Just a few years later, it looks almost prescient about how divided the country would become, and it contains some of the best performances in Q. The two star in the first excellent Netflix movie of , an analysis of the game on top of the game that makes the NBA work.

And the entire thing was shot on an iPhone! One of the best horror movies on Netflix, this Sundance darling is the tale of a pair of Sudanese refugees who flee to London only to discover ghosts have fled with them. Any conversation about the best cinematic trilogies ever simply must include the DreamWorks films about Hiccup and his dragon Toothless.

The original is still the undeniable masterpiece, but both sequels are nearly as good, including this story of how Hiccup reunites with his mother, voiced by Cate Blanchett. Young film lovers may not know why Sir Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson are so beloved in the film community. This is a good place to start. Forster classic. This is a whimsical, delightful film that you can watch with the entire family. It may not be in 3-D on Netflix, but you can still enjoy its endless visual glory.

Ricky Baker Julian Dennison has a new foster family, including a sweet foster mother. The events in Minnesota and elsewhere in brought viewers back to this stunning documentary that works from an unfinished manuscript by the brilliant James Baldwin.

Narrated by Samuel L. It was such a hit that it landed three Oscar nominations, including the last one for Malkovich. Sean Penn wrote and directed an adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer, which introduced the world to the story of Christopher McCandless.

The young man, played in the film by Emile Hirsch, left everything behind, basically wandering into the Alaskan Wilderness, from which he never returned. After the massive success of Cobra Kai on Netflix, the streamer finally now also offers fans the original trilogy of films about the kid who learns karate from Mr.

The original is still, by far, the best, starring Ralph Macchio and the great Pat Morita. Less successful are the and sequels, but no one would blame fans for wanting to watch the whole trilogy. A man who likes to play God meets a boy who likes to play Satan in this twisted horror film from Yorgos Lanthimos , the daring director of The Lobster and The Favourite. Saoirse Ronan stars as a young Californian who longs for someplace cooler than her own hometown. Before he was , he was a character known only as XXXX in this story of a London criminal who is trying to get out of the drug business and having great difficulty doing so.

Also known as The Professional , this film was the breakthrough for Natalie Portman, who plays year-old Mathilda, a girl taken in by a stoic hitman, played by Jean Reno. Luc Besson wrote and directed this taut thriller that also features a memorable over-the-top performance from the great Gary Oldman.

The brilliant Liz Garbus moved from her traditional form of documentary filmmaking to direct this thriller based on the book of the same name by Robert Kolker.

Amy Ryan plays Mari Gilbert, the mother of a young sex worker who disappeared on Long Island, leading to the revelation that a serial killer has been prowling the location. Take this true story of an interracial couple — played with beauty and grace by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga — who had to go all the way to the U.