Flow (2024)
[9] Flow, one of the most cinematic and meaningful animated films ever made, takes place in an unknown world and unknown time, where a cat must learn to trust animals of other species in order to survive a great flood.…
Corvette Summer (1978)
[4] Mark Hamill (Star Wars) and Annie Potts (Ghostbusters) star in this tepid comedy-romance about a car-obsessed Los Angeles high school senior (Hamill) who travels to Las Vegas to reclaim his auto club's stolen, restored Corvette. He's aided by a…
Rango (2011)
[7] A pet chameleon named Rango (voiced by Johnny Depp) gets lost in the desert where he stumbles upon a drought-stricken town in need of a sheriff. He fakes his way into the job and enjoys playing the part until…
Secondhand Lions (2003)
[7] Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense, A.I.) plays Walter, a boy whose mother abandons him with his two reclusive old uncles, Garth and Hub (Michael Caine and Robert Duvall), who end up providing him with a more meaningful upbringing…
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
[7] Director Ron Howard tackles the (more or less) true story that inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. Chris Hemsworth stars as the determined first mate of the New England whaling ship Essex, which is destroyed by a mammoth…
These Are the Damned (1962)
[6] Here's a weird offering from Britain's Hammer Films that's so surprising and bewildering, you might overlook its shortcomings. In England, an American tourist (Macdonald Carey) is picked up by a young woman (Shirley Anne Field) who lures him into…
September 30, 1955 (1977)
[7] Richard Thomas (The Waltons) stars as a college student who takes the death of emerging superstar James Dean very hard. He and his friends steal liquor, hold a séance, and pull pranks on the parked cars on 'lover's lane'…
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
[8] Steven Spielberg directs Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in this odd, beguiling caper about a 17-year-old con man (DiCaprio) pursued across the globe by a dogged FBI agent (Hanks) for successfully impersonating a doctor, a lawyer, and a commercial…
Apollo 13 (1995)
[9] Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton star as the astronauts of 1970's ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to the moon, one in which their vessel suffered an exploding oxygen tank that threatened to leave them stranded in space forever.…
Tombstone (1993)
[7] Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer lead an all-star ensemble in this true story of 1881's infamous showdown between reluctant lawmen and a gang of criminal cowboys previously depicted in 1957's Gunfight at the OK Corral and told again in…