Bridesmaids
The film that changed Hollywood's understanding of what women-led comedies could achieve.
Knives Out
A wickedly clever murder mystery that uses genre conventions to say something pointed about class and privilege.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson at his most precise and most humane: a comedy about civilization and what happens when it ends.
Superbad
The best American high school comedy of its generation, built on real friendship and real embarrassment.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
An overwhelming, funny, tender, absurd masterpiece that finds love at the edge of nihilism.
It
A coming-of-age horror film that remembers what childhood fear actually feels like.
Midsommar
A horror film that unfolds in broad daylight and finds the darkness within community and grief.
The Silence of the Lambs
The gold standard of psychological thriller: a film that rewards every viewing with new details.
A Quiet Place
A masterclass in sustained tension: what horror cinema can achieve when a filmmaker fully commits to a premise.
Hereditary
The most disturbing horror debut in decades: a film about grief that becomes something genuinely terrifying.