Top 5 lists: Movies
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Top 5 Comedies That Survive a Second Watch
Jokes you see coming and still laugh at.
1–3: Groundhog Day · The Grand Budapest Hotel · What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
FeaturedTop 5 Movies of All Time
Not the critical consensus — just what hits hardest after multiple rewatches.
1–3: The Shawshank Redemption · Parasite · Spirited Away
Top 5 Movie Montages That Make You Want to Reorganize Your Entire Life
Two minutes of music and quick cuts that leave you convinced you could fix everything by Friday if you just started now.
1–3: Rocky IV — Training Montage · Up — "Married Life" · Mulan — "I'll Make a Man Out of You"
Top 5 Movie Sequels That Showed Up the Original
Proof that a second try can work, ranked by how badly each one outdid the first movie.
1–3: The Godfather Part II — Francis Ford Coppola · Aliens — James Cameron · Terminator 2: Judgment Day — James Cameron
Top 5 Movies Under 90 Minutes That Don't Waste a Single Second
Tight, lean films that get in, wreck you and let you go to bed at a reasonable hour.
1–3: Run Lola Run — Tom Tykwer · Fantastic Mr. Fox — Wes Anderson · Toy Story — John Lasseter
Top 5 Movie Dinner Scenes You'd Fake an Illness to Skip
Some movie meals are so tense, gross, or explosive that any excuse to leave early starts to look pretty good.
1–3: The Pankot Palace Banquet — Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · The Family Dinner — The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) · The 'I Am Your Mother' Dinner — Hereditary
Top 5 Movies That Make You Want to Quit Your Job and Move to Italy
Films that leave you browsing one-way flights to Rome and wondering how hard Italian could be.
1–3: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) — Anthony Minghella · Call Me by Your Name (2017) — Luca Guadagnino · Roman Holiday (1953) — William Wyler
Top 5 Heist Movies Where You Root for the Crew
Crime doesn't pay, except for 110 minutes when the plan is clever, the team is charming and the getaway is perfect.
1–3: Ocean's Eleven — Steven Soderbergh · Rififi — Jules Dassin · Logan Lucky — Steven Soderbergh
Top 5 Movie Villains Who Were Honestly Kind of Right
The bad guys whose arguments still hold up after the credits, even if their methods definitely don't.
1–3: Erik Killmonger — Black Panther · Roy Batty — Blade Runner · Magneto — X-Men
Top 5 Movies That Are Way Better Than They Had Any Right to Be
Movies with a goofy premise, a bad title or a kids' rating that still beat most prestige films at their own game.
1–3: Paddington 2 (2017) — Paul King · Edge of Tomorrow (2014) — Doug Liman · Galaxy Quest (1999) — Dean Parisot