25 of the Best Boring Movies
Social media movie discourse is at it again. This time around, I’m being horrified by posts from younger moviegoers who freely admit to fast-forwarding through movies to skip past “the…
10 Movie Trilogies That Actually Stuck the Landing
Though it’s unlikely we’ll soon truly be seeing the last of the Guardians of the Galaxy, trailers for the third film in the franchise are promising us “one last ride”…
30 Movies That Are Somehow Turning 30 This Year
Nineties pop culture nostalgia is powerful, and never more so than in these troubled times. And when looking back across the decades at the films released 30 years ago, its…
20 Actually Great Movies Unceremoniously Dumped in January
Screenshot: Before Sunrise/Warner Bros. Big-budget movie spectacles tend to open in the summer, when there’s less chance bad weather will ruin critical opening weekend grosses. Movies with awards on their…
22 of the Best Movies of 2022 That Won’t Get Nominated for Oscars
We all know how this goes: The Golden Globe nominations just dropped, Oscar nominations come out in January, and in both cases, most of the discourse surrounding both is/will be…
15 Great Feminist Movies That Fail the Bechdel Test
Screenshot: Fargo/Prime Video A recent Twitter dustup called into question the whole point of the Bechdel test, a set of criteria to help gauge the representation of women in popular…
42 Highbrow Films to Watch When You’re Totally High
Watching movies and smoking weed go hand in hand in hand, so much so that there is an entire sub-genre of film known as the stoner comedy—usually movies about potheads…
14 of the Greatest Baseball Movies for People Who Don’t Care About Baseball
Screenshot: A League of Their Own/Sony Pictures Entertainment “Everybody loves baseball,” an aunt once told me. I don’t know about that. Lots of people really like baseball, but I think…
15 of the Best Movies About Teen Angst to Watch After ‘Turning Red’
Screenshot: Now and Then/New Line Cinema Not entirely unlike Inside Out a few years back, the new Pixar film Turning Red stars a character confronting her own adolescence and the…
20 Movies and TV Shows That Prove the Generation Gap Is Real
Nothing brings out conflict between generations like getting everyone together for the holidays. In this 2021 indie from director Stephen Karam, based on his Tony-winning, Pulitzer-nominated play, three generations of…