25. Almost Famous

Cameron Crowe’s dramatic retelling of his own life as a teenage wunderkind reporter for Rolling Stone. The best part of this movie isn’t Kate Hudson or Zooey Deschanel; it isn’t even Francis McDormand as the perpetually hyperventilating mother archetype, but Jason Lee’s heart-wrenching performance of the hit song “Fever Dog.”

24. Robocop

It’s weird that there are so many movies from the 1980’s that tackle themes that are so prevalent today. The first Robocop expertly examines themes of gentrification, the militarization and privatization of the police force and capitalism run rampant. Also, it’s gory as all hell.

23. Robocop 2

Robocop 2 wasn’t as smart as it’s predecessor but it did prove to be prophetic as the city of Detroit did eventually go bankrupt. Although, unlike in the film, there wasn’t a greedy corporation hell bent on owning it afterwards.

22. The Running Man

There might be “running” theme with some of Amazon Prime’s movies. “By 2017, the world economy has collapsed” and so begins Stephen King’s The Running Man. Arnold Schwarzenegger is Ben Richards, a man scapegoated for not following orders to slaughter innocent women and children. He’s then sentenced to play the sadistic titular game show and run for his life.

21. The Greasy Strangler

The Greasy Strangler is a film that could have only come around in a world post-Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! A father and son pine for the same woman while an oily maniac strangles his victims on the street. Must be seen to be believed. RIYL: Graphic male nudity.

20. There Will Be Blood

It was a beautiful moment in time when every other day you could hear someone saying, “I drink your milkshake” in a public space. Maybe, if we’re lucky, we’ll get a popular catchphrase that remains as hopelessly strange when decontextualized. This is the story of Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his lifelong pursuit of riches through oil.

19. The Love Witch

The Love Witch came out in 2016 but you’d never know it by looking at it. Shot on 35mm and lit and styled to look like the Technicolor films of the 50s, 60s and 70s, Samantha Robinson plays the modern-day spell-caster who uses her powers to get men to fall in love with her with disastrous results. The film examines gender roles and ideas of contemporary feminism.

18. American Pastoral

Based on Philip Roth’s magnum opus, American Pastoral sees the directorial debut of Ewan McGregor who also plays the main character Seymour “Swede” Levov. An all-American couple finds their lives slowly crumbling as their daughter joins up with a radical 1960s counter-culture group.

17. American Honey

There aren’t many times that you get to be pleasantly surprised by Shia LeBeouf but American Honey is one of them. An adolescent runaway gets mixed up with a gang of crusty travelling sales-teens. They party hard and fall in sticky, alcohol-soaked love.

16. Election

Reese Witherspoon is always at her best when she’s just playing Reese Witherspoon. This adaptation of the Tom Perrotta novel of the same name might have been one of the first movies where she did just that. High school teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) tries to thwart the dreams of Tracy Flick (Witherspoon) becoming class president.

15. Author: The JT LeRoy Story

In 1999, the novel Sarah, about a boy and his life with his prostitute mother, became a literary sensation when it came to light that it was a sort-of true story written by sixteen-year-old phenom, JT LeRoy. After many years, publications and public deceptions, it turned out that LeRoy was a persona adopted by author Laura Albert. Author tells the story behind the story of this stranger-than-fiction tale.

14. Eddie Murphy: RAW

Known just as much for it’s controversial material as it is the wardrobe, Raw might have been the apex of Murphy’s career and it’s still the #1 stand-up box office film of all time. Fair warning: not all of Murphy’s jokes have aged well and sometimes they’re downright offensive even by 1980s standards.

13. American Playboy: Season 1

Drawing on more than 17,000 hours of footage and 2,600-and-counting scrapbooks, American Playboy is set to be the defining document on the iconic Playboy Magazine. The 13-episode series marks Amazon’s first foray into original documentaries.

12. Bosch: Season 3

Based on the award-winning novels penned by Michael Connelly, Bosch is kind of like the Burn Notice of Amazon—it’s supposed to be pretty good but nobody actually knows anyone who watches it. You-know-you’ve-seen-him-somewhere actor Titus Welliver stars as Bosch, an ex-Special Forces hard-nosed homicide detective solving mysteries on the mean streets of Hollywood.

11. Catastrophe: Season 2

Apparently, this show is hilarious. Rob Delaney and Sharon Hogan star as a couple of newly minted parents navigating the world in lieu of post-partum depression and unwanted sexual advances. It’s been called “piss-in-your-pants” funny.

10. Animal Kingdom: Season 1

After the death of his mother, seventeen year-old Josh Cody goes to live with his criminal family members who spend their days drinking, drugging and committing violent crimes.

9. The Handmaiden

Chan-Wook Park (Stoker, Oldboy) directs this loose adaptation of the Victorian crime novel Fingersmith. In 1930s Japan, a Korean handmaiden and her conman partner seek to defraud a Japanese woman of her rather large inheritance.

8. Captain Fantastic

After the death of the family matriarch, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) is forced to take his children out of their wilderness seclusion where he’s trained them to be smart, athletic and devoid of reliance on technology. Hilarity ensues for this sheltered unit.

7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The prototype for all American horror films and a true masterwork of cinematography. Like Jaws urged viewers to stay out of the water, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre warned sexy teens away from taking road trips through the American South.

6. Big Fan

Patton Oswalt carries this character study of an obsessed New York Giants fan. The film is equal parts hilarious, cringe-worthy and heartbreaking. Beaten by his favorite player, Paul Aufeiro (Oswalt) gives new meaning to the phrase “never meet your heroes.”

5. Blue Ruin

What do you do when the guy who killed your parents gets out of prison? Kill him and burn every branch on his family tree of course.

4. Green Room

Set against the backdrop of the white supremacist movement in the Pacific Northwest, Green Room pits a punk rock band against murderous skinheads. Another instant classic by Jeremy Saulnier.

3. Gimme Danger: Story of the Stooges

Directed by Jim Jarmusch, Gimme Danger chronicles the rise of the definitive Detroit rockers (fronted by the inimitable Iggy Pop) who helped birth the punk rock and alternative movement as we know it.

2. One More Time with Feeling

Documenting the recording of the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album The Skeleton Tree after the death of Cave’s fifteen year-old son. Cave provides intermittent narration about the creative process and grief throughout.

1. The Witch

It’s cold. It’s snowy. It’s isolated. It’s New England in the 1600s. Young Thomasin has been accused of witchcraft as strange happenings begin to plague her family. Is she a witch? Or is this just a metaphor for puberty?

25. The Leftovers: Season 3

140 million people disappear without a trace in this riveting HBO original series. Where did they go? What happened to them? What secrets are hidden in Justin Theroux’s new beard? The series does not seek to answer these questions but, instead, ponders the quandary of what those left behind do in the wake of the “sudden departure.”

24. Veep: Season 6

After last season’s curiously prophetic ending—seeing the well-qualified female former vice president Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss) lose to a slick talking male politician—it will be interesting to see where season 6 takes their charismatic lead in the wake of her being knocked down a peg.

23. Silicon Valley: Season 3

HBO’s “Entourage for nerds” returns with their third season. The trailer would have us believe that Richard leaves his cadre of social awkward programmers to start a new Internet. Will he succeed? Will we see them reunite by mid-season? Probably both.

22. Crashing: Season 1

Crashing makes good use of Pete Holmes’s clean comic abilities as a recently divorced and down-on-his-luck stand up comic seeking shelter in the homes of a cavalcade of comedic heavyweights (Sarah Silverman, Artie Lange, TJ Miller et. al.). The show’s first season was a success and unsurprisingly HBO has already renewed it for a second.

21. Girls: Season 6

Millennials may never seem so interesting again now that Girls is coming to an end. The show lasted a jaw-dropping six seasons and now we’ll have to wave goodbye to Marnie, Hannah, Shoshanna and the British one… probably over Skype and from a coffee shop.

20. Big Little Lies: Limited Series

The limited miniseries seems to be a growing trend for HBO and Big Little Lies is evidence that the network should continue to pursue the medium. If anyone thought that glimpsing through the keyhole into the lives of bored, rich white women was a dead theme, they were wrong. The all-star cast (Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley) viscerally brings to life the Liane Moriarty murder-thriller novel of the same name.

19. Absolutely Fabulous: the Movie

Edina and Patsy are back in their long-awaited return. The film finds the hard-partying duo knocking supermodel Kate Moss into the River Thames and subsequently fleeing to the French Riviera. Expect lots of drinking and shopping while the duo try to figure out just how to stay live on the high life.

18. Romancing the Stone

A loveless romance writer gets chucked into a real life adventure in the jungles of Colombia with a charming mercenary. Michael Douglas elevates the film above just an Indiana Jones-esque rom-com-with-bullets cash grab.

17. Cop Car

Try to think of a disappointing Kevin Bacon movie. You probably immediately gravitate toward Footloose but you’re wrong. Cop Car centers around two kids who go for a joyride in a crooked cop’s car. Kevin Bacon has a moustache, a badge and a loaded gun. What more could you ask for?

16. 28 Days Later

Two words: fast zombies.

15. Urban Cowboy

Who ever thought that after Saturday Night Fever John Travolta could make a convincing mechanical bull-riding cowboy named Bud Davis? He does pretty well here opposite a proto-feminist Sissy Spacek in this classic of honky tonk cinema.

14. War Dogs

Jonah Hill and Miles Teller step out of their comfort zones to play two loathsome arms dealers who supply guns and ammo to shady folks in league with Afghan forces. Based on a true story that helps to remind people that it’s totally OK to make light of an illegal arms race in the Middle East.

13. Crimson Tide

Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington butt heads over whether or not to launch a nuclear missile at Russia. Bonus points for James Gandolfini and Viggo Mortensen. Fun fact: Crimson Tide was co-written by an uncredited Quentin Tarantino.

12. Suicide Squad

Remember when the whole world waited with baited breath to see just how sick and twisted Jared Leto’s tattooed, millennial representation of the Joker was going to be? Especially after all the reports of him sending used condoms and dead pigs to his cast mates? And then, remember how he ended up in Suicide Squad for all of five minutes?
…

Yeah.

11. Indignation

Despite being one of America’s most universally celebrated (and universally despised) authors, adapting Philip Roth to the big screen has always posed a bit of a challenge (just ask Ewan McGregor). James Schamus does admirably here with his take on Indignation—the story of a brilliant young Jewish man feuding with the dean of his university while pining for a Christian, conservative girl in Ohio.

10. Play Misty for Me

Clint Eastwood is a polarizing figure. When he’s not yelling at chairs in front of a crowd of old white men, he’s out making pretty decent films. Play Misty for Me is his directorial debut and one of the few roles that didn’t see him with a revolver, cigar and a cowboy strut. Eastwood plays a Hollywood DJ that gets into bed with the wrong woman.

9. Be Kind, Rewind

The aughts were a good time for Michel Gondry—Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind garnered him an Academy Award and The Science of Sleep put the power of his vision on full display. Be Kind Rewind didn’t become the hit that it should have but history will no doubt remember it fondly. Jack Black and Mos Def find themselves having to low-budget recreate their favorite movies after Black inadvertently wipes all the tapes at their dwindling video store.

8. Cape Fear

The heartwarming tale of a former public defender and the convicted rapist that wants to kill him and destroy his family. The film marks the seventh of eight collaborations between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro (whose tattoos continue to inspire prisoners and alt-indie band members to this day).

7. Slumdog Millionaire

How could a street kid know so much useless, game show trivia? Danny Boyle directs Dev Patel with all the toilet gags, drugs, sex and money you’ve come to know him for.

6. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The title does a great job of summing up the basic plot. Come for the story of one of the most enduring legends of the American West, stay for the excellent performances of Brad Pitt and the perpetually brooding Casey Affleck.

5. The Deer Hunter

In the span of four years, there were eleven American-made films about the Vietnam War. Seven of them were made in 1976 alone. The Deer Hunter remains one of the most powerful. Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro play American soldiers forever changed by the horrors they are subject to.

4. The Simpsons Movie

This film has everything: a pet pig, graphic nudity and a clueless president who signs off on executive orders without reading them.

3. The Aviator

The biopic of eccentric genius/really rich guy Howard Hughes starring Leonardo DiCaprio as directed by Martin Scorsese.

2. Unforgiven

An aging outlaw takes on one… last… job. Clint Eastwood directs and stars in his last western, tackling the violent and imperialistic truths of the Old West mythos that many other Hollywood films tend to skirt.

1. All the President’s Men

Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman play Woodward and Bernstein following the money all the way to Nixon. If there’s one movie that should be required viewing for all of America, it’s probably this one.

25. Coraline

A young girl finds a finds a secret door in her new house leading to an alternate world similar yet better than ours. Everything goes swimmingly until Other Mother tries to keep her in the alternate world forever. Written by fantasy author Neil Gaiman (American Gods) and directed by Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Coraline is an animated delight for both parents and children.

24. Following

Everybody’s got to start somewhere. For Chris Nolan, AKA the man who single-handedly remolded the DC Universe with his Batman series, this began with Following. A neo-noir borrowing heavily from Carol Reed and Orson Welles, the film follows a writer who begins tailing strangers until things, as you might imagine, go very wrong.

23. Boogie Nights

There’s nothing quite like seeing all of Mark Wahlberg’s… talents. Boogie Nights introduced to world to the genius of Paul Thomas Anderson and reintroduced a charming young, upstart actor named Burt Reynolds. This is not to mention the incredible cast, which, for many of whom, the film was their first major role: William H. Macy, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham, John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

22. The Invitation

The Invitation mostly flew under the radar when it came out last year but it might have been one of the tensest psychological thrillers in recent memory. Starring Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus and the upcoming Spiderman: Homecoming) plays Will, a Los Angeles hipster who goes to a party hosted by his ex-wife, Eden (Tammy Blanchard). The less you know about this film the better.

21. It Follows

The horror genre isn’t for everybody. Some folks just don’t have the stomach for all the slashes, gashes and blood that comes with today’s splat pack of horror films. It Follows harkens back to the horror films of the 1980’s—gripping and suspenseful with a healthy dose of teens in heat. Jay (Maika Monroe) learns that a fatal, following curse gets passed via sexual intercourse and she’s the latest victim. She must pass it along or learn how to defeat it.

20. Spotlight

The Best Picture-winning docudrama of the Boston Globe team that, in 2001, blew wide open the Catholic Church pedophilia scandals. Equal parts eye opening and repellant, Spotlight is a fantastic meditation on the power of journalism and the systems of suppression.

19. The Big Short

In the same vein as Spotlight, The Big Short details how exactly America ended up in the Great Recession of 2008. Hint: Lots of powerful people were taking advantage of working-class Americans and nobody was watching them. Now, in 2017, The Big Short takes on new significance. Watch for fantastic performances by Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Christian Bale.

18. Clouds of Sils Maria

This is one of those plotless difficult-to-describe films but one that is both beautifully filmed and expertly acted by the almost all-female leading cast. Juliet Binoche (The English Patient) plays an actress cast as the older character in an adaptation of a play she made famous years ago, the sultry starring role going to a younger, more scandalous actress (Chloë Grace Moretz). The film tackles many themes and isn’t afraid to court a little controversy.

17. Boyhood

Filmed with the same cast over the course of 12 years, Richard Linklater’s loving ode to his childhood in Texas is not only a fine film but also a full-blown art piece like the world had never seen before. Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette (who took home an Academy Award for her role) and Ethan Hawke, Boyhood is proof of the auteur at the height of his power.

16. Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading often gets filed under “lesser” Cohen Brothers but it’s got an unmistakable charm. The memoirs of a former CIA analyst (John Malkovich) fall into the hands of Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), two gym employees who see the accidental finding as a possibility to get Litzke her desired cosmetic surgery. As with many Cohen Brothers films, things go so far off the rails, you’ll be hard pressed to figure out how the hell you got there in the first place.

15. Tangerine

The conceit for Tangerine is simple but effective: A hooker and her best friend set out to find her pimp ex-boyfriend to teach him and his new lover a lesson after she finds he cheated on her while she was in prison. The movie was filmed entirely on an iPhone, using mostly non-actors for a budget of just around $100k.

14. Frailty

Frailty puts both Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton at their absolute best. A serial killer who goes by the name “God’s Hands” eludes the FBI until Fenton Meeks (McConaughey) claims he knows the identity of the killer—his brother Adam. The film is chock full of twists, turns and sleights of hand. You will not be disappointed. Bonus: Paxton directs.

13. The Prestige

Another Chris Nolan film but this one written in collaboration with his brother Jonathan Nolan (Westworld). Two 19th century magicians, Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman), are engaged in a bitter rivalry when an illusion goes awry. If you’re a fan of either of the Nolan brothers, you know to expect a taught and winding narrative.

12. Cool Runnings

The film is based on the incredible true story of four Jamaican bobsledders and their Olympic dreams. John Candy co-stars as their down-on-his-luck coach.

11. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Sure, Wes Anderson has made the same film more than a few times over, but The Life Aquatic was, and remains, the film that set him apart. Despite defining roles by Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe, the film only holds a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes. Some people just don’t know how to have a good time.

10. Mystery Science Theatre 3000

The classic b-movie-trashing, robots-in-space show familiarly known as MST3K returns to offer a bit of respite from the every day doldrums and maddening state of current events. Boasting some new faces in the writer’s room (Community’s Joel McHale and Dan Harmon) but the same great cast, the new season of MST3K is sure to delight fans both old and new.

9. A Nightmare on Elm Street

In this timeless representation of horror cinema, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) haunts sexy teenagers while they dream, which kills them in reality. Can Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp) solve the puzzle of the mangled man who haunts them? What secrets to the parents of the town keep?

8. Literally Anything Starring Hannibal Buress

Let’s face it: Hannibal Buress is probably one of the funniest working comedians in the world today. Netflix has graciously provided us with three stand-up specials featuring Hannibal—Animal Furnace, Comedy Camisado, and Live in Chicago as well as the featurette Hannibal Takes Edinburgh.

7. Voltron 84

The newest (and slightly cringe-inducing) Power Rangers reboot left us hankering for a simpler time of giant robots that come together to create… another, bigger robot. The animated precursor, and still wholly amazing, to the mighty morphing teenagers was Voltron. Netflix asked the creators of the seminal show to pick their favorite 12 episodes and arrange them into a greatest-hits like mega-season.

6. Rectify

You might not know it, but the Independent Film Channel actually has some killer original programming. Rectify follows Daniel Holden (Aden Young) as he readjusts to life outside of death row, where he’d been imprisoned for 20 years for a murder that he may or may not have committed. The show doesn’t seek to solve the mystery. Instead, it remains an understated drama about a broken family in the American South. Netflix just posted the final season and it’s a good one.

5. Hap and Leonard

Another IFC original set in the South. Hap (James Purefoy, Rome) and Leonard (Michael K. Williams, The Wire) find themselves at the center of the search for sunken treasure at the behest of Hap’s ex-wife Trudy (Christina Hendricks, Mad Men) in this adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale’s award-winning novels.

4. Grace and Frankie

Two rivals find themselves hopelessly intertwined when their husbands come out of the closet, fall in love with each other and decide to get married. When things start to spin out of control, the women realize they only have each other to rely on. Grace and Frankie stars national treasures Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as the titular characters and Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston as their husbands.

3. Trailer Park Boys

There’s no doubt about it—the boys are back in town. Everyone’s favorite Canadian white trash waste cases return to Netflix for their 11th season!

2. Louis CK 2017

A new comedy special from the brilliant comedian filmed this past year in Washington D.C. We’re not sure what jokes he’ll be rolling out for this new special, but you can expect the same, great off-kilter comedy the man is known for.

1. Dear White People: Season 1

The show will follow closely to the basic template of the film: a college radio DJ deals with micro-aggressions (and full-on aggressions) on an Ivy League campus. Expect hilarious and intelligent satire.

25. Seinfeld

The entire series of the Show About Nothing is streaming on Hulu. This alone is enough reason to get a subscription.

24. Days of Thunder

The best movie about NASCAR racing that isn’t Talladega Nights. Two bitter rivals become friends after dual injuries sideline their careers. Days of Thunder also boasts some of the best character names for a movie about fast cars—Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise), Rowdy Burns (Michael Rooker) and Russ Wheeler (Cary Elwes).

23. The Babadook

A monster haunts a family from the pages of a children’s book. This is a scary-ass movie about how much it sucks to be a single mom.

22. Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

A rambling but beautiful film centered on a man who is released from prison and goes to find his former lover and the child she bore. The allusions to Terrance Malick are earned and Casey Affleck is at his mush-mouthed best.

21. Cadillac Man

Robin Williams plays a sleazy car salesman who’s deep in debt. In an effort to save his skin, he attempts to sell off his entire stock of Caddies. Unfortunately, things get complicated when the scorned lover of one of his many girlfriends (Tim Robbins) comes into the dealership armed with an automatic weapon!

20. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Every kid who skipped school in the 80s and 90s probably imagined their day would go a lot like Ferris Bueller’s—fancy restaurant, art museum, cool car, etc. For most kids, though, it was probably staying home and watching reruns of Wings.

19. The Hours

Three women and the book that unites them. Nicole Kidman is unrecognizable as Virginia Woolf attempting to write her opus, Mrs. Dalloway, while Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore read the book in the future, and it changes their lives. Ostensibly, they were not forced to read the novel in AP English.

18. JFK

With a nod and a wink, Oliver Stone examines one of America’s most famous conspiracies. Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) begins to doubt the findings on the Kennedy assassination and begins a little investigation of his own.

17. Payback

Mel Gibson finally gets vengeance on all those nasty folks who’ve done him wrong.

16. The Puffy Chair

A landmark mumble-core film starring the second-to-last funny guy from The League. In all seriousness, most people don’t know that the Duplass brothers were “important filmmakers” until one of them ended up on a show about upper-middle-class fantasy sports enthusiasts.

15. RoboCop 3

Written by famed anarcho-libertarian comic book scribe Frank Miller, RoboCop 3 kind of goes off the rails. There are robot ninjas, and the filmmakers were panned for trimming all the good stuff to get it down to PG-13. You have to understand, by this point in time there were RoboCop cartoons, lunch boxes and toys. Just seven years earlier, the original RoboCop was a cyberpunk bloodbath tackling gentrification, corporate greed, and the militarization of the police force among other, timely themes.

14. The Straight Story

A guy drives a tractor to tend to his estranged brother who has just had a stroke. This entire film was made just to prove that David Lynch could do “normal.”

13. The Warriors

A colorful New York City gang fights through the night to get back to Coney Island in probably one of the best films ever made.

12. Prison Break: Season 5

Apparently Prison Break was a Big Deal way back in the early aughts. Its return hints that Michael Scofield might not be dead and the biggest jailbreak ever is yet to come. Just for the record, there are characters named “T-Bag,” “C-Note,” and “Sucre.”

11. Cesar Millan’s Dog Nation

In the words of Cesar Millan, “You have to establish dominance,” but anyone keeping up with national politics probably already knows that. The show finds the Dog Whisperer crisscrossing the country looking for problem hounds to mansplain.

10. The Handmaid’s Tale: Series Premiere

Margaret Atwood’s gripping novel comes to life just at the exact right moment in history when we all need a little more of a reminder that, yes, we are indeed living in a fascist dystopia.

9. Tapeheads

John Cusack seems to be doing a Gomez Addams cosplay here in this pseudo-love letter to the Los Angeles music industry. The film is centered on two down-on-their-luck music video directors who accidentally catch a public servant in the act. There are some interesting themes here about censorship and commodity that barely get scratched but Tim Robbins is having fun and really that’s all that matters.

8. The Switch

People really lambasted this movie because it had Jennifer Aniston playing Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman playing Jason Bateman, but, honestly, what more could we ask from them? Jeff Goldblum’s bit part as Bateman’s friend is worth the price of admission alone. Oh, and it’s about a guy who inadvertently becomes his friend’s sperm donor after he spills the original donor sperm somehow.

7. The People vs. George Lucas

If someone asks, “Did you see the People versus…?” you will probably be thinking of something entirely different. But this is a different thing, about a different guy. It’s actually a decent examination of the Star Wars film franchise and the nature of art i.e., when is art no longer the property of the artist and becomes, really, the property of the admirer?

6. Lincoln

Someday, someone should make a documentary about the creator of Lincoln Logs. Did you know John Lloyd Wright, the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, invented Lincoln Logs in Japan? And that Lincoln Logs structures are earthquake proof? Anyway, this movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in a movie about Abraham Lincoln. It’s called Lincoln.

5. Tombstone

“I’m your Huckleberry.”

4. 1408

Seriously, this movie is not bad. All things considered, it’s actually pretty good. John Cusack stars in this adaptation of a Stephen King story about a failed writer (duh) who doesn’t believe in ghosts. He checks into a notoriously haunted room and, well, I bet you can guess what happens (hint: there are ghosts).

3. Major League

A hard luck team of misfits is able to scratch and claw their way to the top of the MLB much to the chagrin of their greedy owner.

2. Serpico

Based on a true story, Serpico finds Al Pacino doing his best Charlie Day impression. A story about crooked cops and the one guy who puts his life on the line to stop them.

1. Preacher: Season 1

AMC is straight killing it with their television programming and this adaptation of the beloved comic book series is no different. For fans of the books, you’ll have little time adjusting once you settle in to the minor aesthetic differences of the characters. Season 2 drops June 19th and we couldn’t be more excited.