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2013 · 1 h 31 min · Drama · Sci-Fi
Two astronauts cut loose in orbit after debris wrecks their shuttle, told almost in real time. It won seven Oscars, Alfonso Cuarón's for directing among them. Use the biggest screen in the house.
When you only have 100 minutes1996 · 1 h 38 min · Crime · Drama
The Coen brothers on Minnesota politeness and bad decisions: a car salesman pays two men to kidnap his own wife, and a very pregnant police chief starts picking the plan apart. Oscars went to the screenplay and to Frances McDormand.
When you only have 100 minutes2004 · 1 h 39 min · Comedy · Horror
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost made a comedy first and a horror film second. Once a London slacker finally notices the dead walking, his plan is to go to the pub and wait.
When you only have 100 minutes1975 · 1 h 31 min · Adventure · Comedy
More than fifty years old and people still quote it at work. King Arthur and his knights ride out on a sacred quest, banging coconuts instead of riding horses, with very little dignity.
When you only have 100 minutes2014 · 1 h 39 min · Comedy · Drama
A concierge and his young lobby boy get pulled into a theft, a family feud and a war in a made-up European country. Wes Anderson at his most playful, and it took four Oscars, for design, costumes, make-up and score.
When you only have 100 minutes2011 · 1 h 40 min · Action · Drama
Hardly anyone talks and nothing is wasted. He does stunt work for films by day and sits behind the wheel for robberies at night, until a quiet neighbour changes his plans.
When you only have 100 minutes1996 · 1 h 33 min · Crime · Drama
Edinburgh, heroin, and friends who drag a man straight back every time he tries to quit. Adults only.
When you only have 100 minutes1992 · 1 h 39 min · Crime · Drama
Quentin Tarantino's first feature. A robbery has already gone wrong, and the men who got out sit in a warehouse working out which of them is a cop.
When you only have 100 minutes2004 · 1 h 48 min · Drama · Romance
Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet are better than you'd expect. After a breakup, each has the other erased from memory, and halfway through he wants to stop it. Charlie Kaufman's script won the Oscar, with Michel Gondry directing.
For a date night2009 · 1 h 35 min · Comedy · Drama
It warns you up front that this isn't a love story. Believe it. The film jumps around in time to show where a greeting-card writer went wrong with a woman who doesn't believe in love.
For a date night2013 · 2 h 06 min · Drama · Romance
In the near future, a lonely man falls in love with the voice of his computer's operating system. Spike Jonze makes that idea warmer than it sounds, and the script won an Oscar.
For a date night2012 · 2 h 02 min · Drama · Romance
Jennifer Lawrence won best actress as a young widow every bit as unsettled as the man she meets, fresh out of a psychiatric hospital. Then there's a dance competition. Funny, and a bit rough around the edges.
For a date night2003 · 1 h 42 min · Comedy · Drama
Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, both awake at 3am in a Tokyo hotel. Hardly anything happens, and that's the charm.
For a date night2011 · 1 h 58 min · Comedy · Drama
Ryan Gosling teaches a newly dumped Steve Carell how to dress. Emma Stone steals every scene.
For a date night2003 · 2 h 15 min · Comedy · Drama
Christmas in London, a crowd of couples, and a prime minister who dances. Save it for December.
For a date night1990 · 1 h 45 min · Drama · Fantasy
Johnny Depp, pale and gentle, with blades where his hands should be, dropped into a pastel suburb that can't decide what to make of him. He trims the hedges into dinosaurs. Tim Burton at his sweetest.
For a date night2017 · 1 h 45 min · Adventure · Animation
A boy who loves music, in a family that won't let him play it, slips into the land of the dead during Mexico's Day of the Dead. Bright and funny, and the last scene gets the parents on the sofa as much as the kids.
With the whole family2015 · 1 h 35 min · Adventure · Animation
An 11-year-old moves to a new city, and we watch from the control room in her head, where her emotions fight over the buttons. Kids laugh, parents go quiet. It won the Oscar for best animated film.
With the whole family2010 · 1 h 38 min · Action · Adventure
The flying scenes are still hard to beat, and the friendship between a Viking boy who's hopeless at fighting dragons and the one he befriends carries the whole film.
With the whole family2018 · 1 h 57 min · Action · Adventure
Miles Morales, a Brooklyn teenager, gets spider powers and runs into other versions of the same hero from parallel worlds. It looks like a comic book that moves, nothing looked like that at the time, and it won the Oscar for best animated feature.
With the whole family2007 · 1 h 51 min · Adventure · Animation
A rat with a real gift for cooking secretly teams up with a clumsy kitchen hand in a Paris restaurant. Brad Bird made it about being allowed to do what you're good at more than about food. Oscar for best animated feature.
With the whole family1990 · 1 h 43 min · Comedy · Family
An eight-year-old left behind at Christmas defends the house by himself. Kids and parents both love it.
With the whole family2008 · 1 h 32 min · Action · Adventure
Nobody believes a clumsy panda could be the Dragon Warrior, least of all the panda. Short and quick.
With the whole family1995 · 1 h 21 min · Adventure · Animation
Woody's the favourite toy until a space ranger arrives. The first feature made entirely on computers.
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