This 2013 time-traveling romcom is a paean to love in all its forms.

Beneath the surface of this thrilling creature feature is the beating heart of a familial love story.

Bridesmaids brilliantly show how weddings, like friendships, can bring out the best and worst in the people you understand more than almost anyone else.

Seven movies that have given me a greater love and appreciation for the narrative I carry.

One emotional scene in Pixar’s blockbuster brought home how empathy isn’t about logic—it’s about just being there.

As a bookish 9-year-old brunette girl, I felt an instant kinship with Belle—an average person who set out to create the life of her dreams.

Disney’s forgotten 2000 animated adventure deserves to be excavated and appreciated for the gem it is.

Despite being a fan of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic, I was not prepared for the experience I was about to have seeing It’s A Wonderful Life live during the Music Box’s annual extravaganza.

Equal parts crime caper, detective story, stoner freakout, and hippy-dippy mystery, 1973’s The Long Goodbye is Robert Altman’s crowning achievement and a crackerjack of a whodunit. 

Scream is as much about the journey as it is about the destination. There’s a grim excitement in trying to guess who Ghostface is, only to find that your chief suspect gets skewered in the following scene.

Phil Tippett made a mad movie for horror lovers, bent on grossness and unexpected depth.

Daniel Espinosa’s 2017 sci-fi horror film Life certainly borrows components from Alien and Gravity, but its whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.

For the characters in Brian Duffield’s genre-bending 2020 film Spontaneous, managing to “survive school” is more than just hyperbole.

“Be like Olive” and other takeaways from Abigail Breslin’s sweet, pageant-obsessed character in Little Miss Sunshine.

While I knew Cameron Crowe’s heart-soaked, intergenerational coming of age classic would be with me forever, I couldn’t have predicted how it would change with me as I moved through life.

It’s been two years since AMC’s memed-to-death ad debuted, but only recently did it give me a moment of clarity about why movies matter.

I’ve loved westerns since I was kid, but it wasn’t until I got older and saw more of the world when I found ways to identify with the cowboy experience and how it informed my real life.

As a fan of westerns, I enjoy watching how they have influenced and combined with other genres. But there’s one modern sci-fi western that remains 12 parsecs ahead of the rest.

My childhood summers in Wisconsin with my three best friends looked a lot like what we saw in the 1995 summer classic Now And Then.

With its pure youthful exuberance and uninhibited joy, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off just feels like a summer movie.