Tag: reviews

  • The 10 best R-rated comedies

    Let’s just say it: dirty jokes are pretty effing funny. The best R-rated comedies, however, are more than exercises in vulgarity. They’re happily transgressive, pushing past the boundaries of good taste and dragging the audience along with them. Laughter may be the best medicine, but sometimes adults need something stronger than aspirin.  10. The Hangover…

  • The 10 best workplace films

    For most adults, work consumes more waking hours than almost anything except sleep. Admittedly, not all of that time is spent working; some of it likely includes scrolling through TikTok or watching the second hand crawl toward quitting time (or so I’m told). Even so, the workplace occupies an enormous share of modern life—and provides…

  • The 15 best coming-of-age films

    Few stories, cinematic or otherwise, have proved as enduring as coming of age. There are countless variations, of course: a first love or heartbreak, a reckoning with mortality, learning a truth about a parent or friend, discovering right and wrong. You get the idea. Regardless of the particulars, the best coming-of-age stories endure because growing…

  • The 15 best school-centric films

    For good or ill––or, more accurately, for good and ill––school is a foundational building block of who we become. The classroom is where we learn to read, write, and do arithmetic, of course, but the instruction does not end there. There are critical lessons to be had in the cafeteria, the locker rooms, the playground:…

  • Hot films in the summertime: 10 movies ideal for summer now streaming

    Movies love summer. The two just go together, kindred spirits dedicated to childhood, fun and escapism.  Hollywood saves its blockbuster entertainments for that period between Memorial Day and Labor Day, of course, but there is also that class of films that are set during, or otherwise pay homage to, the season of long days and…