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Read the review: Verity (2026) ☹️👀 Did she really just look at her like that? That's the question Verity keeps you asking, and those moments are the best thing about it. 🔥 Hathaway is chilling, Hartnett is steady, and…
🎄Movies for Christmas
December viewing, settled.
- 🤩Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
- 🤩Klaus (2019)
- 🤩Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
- 😀Rise of the Guardians (2012)
- 😀Little Women (2019)
- 😀The Holiday (2006)
- 😀The Grinch (2018)
- 😀Red One (2024)
- 😀Violent Night (2022)
- 😀The Santa Clause (1994)
- 😀Noelle (2019)
- 😊Carry-On (2024)
- 😊The Holdovers (2023)
- 😊Havoc (2025)
- 😊Family Switch (2023)
- 😊Our Little Secret (2024)
- 😊Genie (2023)
- 😊The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024)
- ☹️Silent Night (2023)
🎃Movies for Halloween
Thirty-one nights of it. These are the ones worth your evening.
- 🤩Scream (1996)
- 🤩Obsession (2026)
- 🤩The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- 🤩Longlegs (2024)
- 🤩Halloween (2007)
- 🤩28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
- 😀Coraline (2009)
- 😀Frankenstein (2025)
- 😀Scream 2 (1997)
- 😀Scream 4 (2011)
- 😀Scream (2022)
- 😀Nosferatu (2024)
- 😀Weapons (2025)
- 😀Barbarian (2022)
- 😀Scream VI (2023)
- 😀Backrooms (2026)
- 😀Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
- 😀Trap (2024)
- 😀28 Years Later (2025)
- 😀Companion (2025)
- 😀Smile 2 (2024)
- 😀Speak No Evil (2024)
- 😀Send Help (2026)
- 😀Abigail (2024)
- 😀The Crow (2024)
- 😀Black Phone 2 (2025)
- 😀I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
- 😀Resident Evil (2026)
- 😊The Mummy (2017)
- 😊Scream 3 (2000)
- 😊Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
- 😊Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
- 😊Scream 7 (2026)
- 😊Totally Killer (2023)
- 😊Practical Magic 2 (2026)
🦃T-hanks-giving
The T stands for Tom. Pick a Hanks for the long weekend.
💘Movies for the ones you love
Rom-coms and romantic dramas we actually stand behind.
- 🤩Yes Man (2008)
- 🤩Pitch Perfect (2012)
- 🤩We Live in Time (2024)
- 🤩In the Heights (2021)
- 😀Friends with Benefits (2011)
- 😀The Holiday (2006)
- 😊Anora (2024)
- 😊Together (2025)
- 😀The Ugly Truth (2009)
- 😀Someone Great (2019)
- 😀Mean Girls (2024)
- 😊Palm Springs (2020)
- 😊Letters to Juliet (2010)
- 😊“Wuthering Heights” (2026)
- 😊The Union (2024)
- 😊Family Switch (2023)
- 😊Office Romance (2026)
- 😊Your Monster (2024)
- ☹️The Gorge (2025)
- ☹️Regretting You (2025)
- ☹️The Map That Leads to You (2025)
- ☹️Sweethearts (2024)
- ☹️The 4:30 Movie (2024)
🎉A clean slate, on screen
Second chances, fresh starts and the nerve to try again.
- 🤩Soul (2020)
- 🤩Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
- 😀Forrest Gump (1994)
- 😀Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
- 😀Tangled (2010)
- 😀Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
- 😀Little Women (2019)
- 😀When We First Met (2018)
- 😀Priscilla (2023)
- 😀People We Meet on Vacation (2026)
- 😀You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)
- 😀Incoming (2024)
- 😀Forgotten Island (2026)
- 😊The Substance (2024)
- 😊Turning Red (2022)
- 😊When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
- 😊Palm Springs (2020)
- 😊Anora (2024)
- 😊Moana 2 (2024)
- 😊The Long Walk (2025)
- 😊The Life of Chuck (2025)
- 😊Elio (2025)
- 😊Rental Family (2025)
- 😊Nonnas (2025)
- 😊My Old Ass (2024)
- 😊Reminders of Him (2026)
- 😊White Bird (2023)
- 😊Piece by Piece (2024)
- 😊The Unbreakable Boy (2025)
- 😊The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024)
- 😊Bob Trevino Likes It (2025)
- 😊Tony (2026)
🎆Big movie, big crowd, big night
Loud, large and best watched with everyone in the room.
- 🤩Inside Out (2015)
- 🤩Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
- 🤩Man of Steel (2013)
- 🤩Kung Fu Panda (2008)
- 🤩Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
- 🤩Barbie (2023)
- 🤩Tenet (2020)
- 🤩Free Guy (2021)
- 🤩Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
- 😀Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
- 😀Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
- 😀Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
- 😀Cars (2006)
- 😀Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- 😀Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
- 😀Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
- 😀Independence Day (1996)
- 😀Star Trek (2009)
- 😀Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
- 😀Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
- 😀Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
- 😀Cars 2 (2011)
- 😀The Expendables (2010)
- 😀Star Trek Beyond (2016)
- 😀Cars 3 (2017)
- 😀Spy (2015)
💐Movies for Mom
Mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and the films that get it.
⚾Movies for Dad
Fathers, sons, daughters, and the ones dad will actually sit through.
- 🤩Wrath of Man (2021)
- 🤩One Battle After Another (2025)
- 🤩In the Heights (2021)
- 😀Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
- 😀Despicable Me 2 (2013)
- 😀Thunderbolts* (2025)
- 😀The Santa Clause (1994)
- 😀Masters of the Universe (2026)
- 😀War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
- 😊The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
- 😊The Lost Bus (2025)
- 😊Knox Goes Away (2024)
- 😊Old Dads (2023)
- 😊She Rides Shotgun (2025)
- 😊Genie (2023)
- 😊Bob Trevino Likes It (2025)
Cast and crew birthdays
People from the reviews, born around now.
- Angourie Rice
- Florence Pugh
- Karl Glusman
- Bradley Cooper
- Kate McKinnon
- Jeremy Renner
- Nicolas Cage
- J.K. Simmons
- Teo Briones
- John Lasseter
- Michael Peña
- Kevin Durand
- Dave Bautista
- Jason Segel
- Kevin Costner
- Carrie Coon
- Matthew Lillard
- Ariana DeBose
- Stephen Chbosky
- Christian Bale
- Eiza González
- Olivia Colman
- Bobby Moynihan
- Justin Timberlake
- Julia Garner
- Anthony Russo
- Henry Golding
- Kathryn Newton
- Christopher Abbott
- Josh Brolin
- Simon Pegg
- Callum Turner
- Elizabeth Olsen
- Mahershala Ali
- Larry the Cable Guy
- Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
- Miles Teller
- Ric Roman Waugh
- Anthony Daniels
- James Hong
- Dakota Fanning
- Emily Blunt
- Benny Safdie
- O'Shea Jackson Jr.
- Jameela Jamil
- Rashida Jones
- Lupita Nyong'o
- Zach Cregger
- Connie Britton
- Tyler Gillett
- Bryan Cranston
- Greta Lee
- Joel Crawford
- Oscar Isaac
- Jon Hamm
- Jodie Comer
- Matthias Schweighöfer
- Emory Cohen
- Michael Caine
- Alan Tudyk
- Pierre Coffin
- John Boyega
- Glenn Close
- Gary Oldman
- Jasmin Savoy Brown
- Keegan-Michael Key
- Jenny Slate
- Laura Harrier
- Vince Vaughn
- Brian Tyree Henry
- Liza Koshy
- Jesse Plemons
- Pedro Pascal
- Adam Scott
- Alec Baldwin
- Sofia Boutella
- David Cross
- Hugo Weaving
- Natasha Lyonne
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Hayley Atwell
- John Ratzenberger
- Paul Rudd
- Jackie Chan
- Russell Crowe
- Daisy Ridley
- David Harbour
- Sofia Carson
- Andy Garcia
- Bokeem Woodbine
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Seth Rogen
- Anya Taylor-Joy
- America Ferrera
- Catalina Sandino Moreno
- Andy Serkis
- Billy Magnussen
- John Cena
- Jack Quaid
- Jonathan Bailey
- Channing Tatum
- Giancarlo Esposito
- Pablo Schreiber
- Penélope Cruz
- Kirsten Dunst
- Dwayne Johnson
- Bobby Cannavale
- Harvey Guillén
- Pom Klementieff
- Henry Cavill
- George Clooney
- Domhnall Gleeson
- Rami Malek
- Ving Rhames
- Robert Pattinson
- Danny Huston
- Miranda Cosgrove
- Pierce Brosnan
- Tina Fey
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph
- Jake Johnson
- Lukas Gage
- Brian Cox
- Gareth Edwards
- Tom Holland
- Morena Baccarin
- Zachary Quinto
- Josh Segarra
- Angelina Jolie
- Karin Konoval
- Keith David
- Russell Brand
- Mark Wahlberg
- Bill Hader
- Karl Urban
- Michael Cera
- Eddie Marsan
- Natalie Portman
- Peter Dinklage
- Dave Franco
- Georgina Campbell
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson
- Chris Evans
- Tim Allen
- Courteney Cox
- Michael Showalter
- Monica Barbaro
- Sarah Niles
- Zoe Saldaña
- Nicole Kidman
- Chris Pratt
- Mckenna Grace
- Jacob Elordi
- Jason Schwartzman
- Nick Offerman
- J.J. Abrams
- Wagner Moura
- Jon Watts
- Camila Mendes
- Margot Robbie
- Benedict Wong
- Tom Cruise
- Melissa Barrera
- Michael Stuhlbarg
- Sylvester Stallone
- Jeffrey Tambor
- Chris Cooper
- Tom Hanks
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Isabela Merced
- Mason Thames
- Alison Wright
- Topher Grace
- Harrison Ford
- Ken Jeong
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- Forest Whitaker
- Jason Clarke
- Joe Russo
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Josh Hartnett
- John Leguizamo
- Willem Dafoe
- Woody Harrelson
- Cailee Spaeny
- Jaboukie Young-White
- Jennifer Lopez
- Mara Wilson
- David Denman
- Jason Statham
- Sandra Bullock
- John David Washington
- Christopher Nolan
- Joey King
- Laurence Fishburne
- Jack O'Connell
- Jason Momoa
- Sam Worthington
- Greta Gerwig
- Michelle Yeoh
- Charlize Theron
- Michael Shannon
- Dustin Hoffman
- Anna Kendrick
- Bill Skarsgård
- Eric Bana
- Gillian Anderson
- Antonio Banderas
- Justin Theroux
- Chris Hemsworth
- Casey Affleck
- Sebastian Stan
- Halle Berry
- Mila Kunis
- Terry Notary
- Ben Affleck
- Steve Carell
- Robert De Niro
- Andy Samberg
- Amy Adams
- Ke Huy Quan
- Kristen Wiig
- Naomi Ackie
- Andrew Rannells
- Blake Lively
- Chris Pine
- Dylan O'Brien
- Melissa McCarthy
- Ariana Greenblatt
- Jack Black
- Dana Gaier Ellis
- Boyd Holbrook
- Zendaya
- Austin Abrams
- Keanu Reeves
- Holt McCallany
- Michael Keaton
- Idris Elba
- David Arquette
- Adam Sandler
- Guy Ritchie
- Sydney Sweeney
- Leo Woodall
- Tom Hardy
- Molly Shannon
- Paul Feig
- James Marsden
- Jon Bernthal
- Bonnie Hunt
- Anthony Mackie
- Hasan Minhaj
- Donald Glover
- Mark Hamill
- Jenna Ortega
- Ian McShane
- Tony Hale
- Brie Larson
- Esai Morales
- Lorraine Bracco
- Michele Morrone
- Neve Campbell
- Christoph Waltz
- Dakota Johnson
- Susan Sarandon
- Jesse Eisenberg
- Matt Damon
- Jacob Batalon
- Rupert Friend
- Joan Cusack
- Hugh Jackman
- Josh Hutcherson
- Steve Coogan
- Paul Walter Hauser
- John Lithgow
- Jon Favreau
- Rebecca Ferguson
- Dan Fogler
- John Krasinski
- Rachel House
- Andrew Scott
- Glen Powell
- Bob Odenkirk
- Corey Hawkins
- Jeff Goldblum
- Kyle Gallner
- Margaret Qualley
- Ryan Reynolds
- Dominic Sessa
- Cary Elwes
- Annie Potts
- Julia Roberts
- Ben Foster
- Anthony Ramos
- Toni Collette
- Jon M. Chu
- Sunny Sandler
- Dolph Lundgren
- Sam Rockwell
- Emma Stone
- Adam Devine
- Will Gluck
- Kiernan Shipka
- Taron Egerton
- Zoey Deutch
- Scoot McNairy
- Stanley Tucci
- Anne Hathaway
- Ryan Gosling
- Wallace Shawn
- Gerard Butler
- Mason Gooding
- Shailene Woodley
- Stephen Root
- Elizabeth Perkins
- Owen Wilson
- Adam Driver
- Allison Janney
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Mark Ruffalo
- Scarlett Johansson
- Chloe Coleman
- Alan Ritchson
- Colman Domingo
- Ed Harris
- Anna Faris
- Celeste O'Connor
- Lucy Liu
- Brendan Fraser
- Jeff Bridges
- Marisa Tomei
- Chris Renaud
- Nicholas Hoult
- Matthias Schoenaerts
- Nancy Meyers
- Kenneth Branagh
- Jamie Foxx
- Ralph Ineson
- LaChanze
- Steven Spielberg
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Steven Yeun
- Poorna Jagannathan
- Ralph Fiennes
- Gavin O'Connor
- Temuera Morrison
- Timothée Chalamet
- Denzel Washington
- Sienna Miller
- Alison Brie
- Chris Pang
- Jude Law
- Ben Kingsley
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