In honor of America's 250th birthday, here are 50 must-see American movies that celebrate who we are, who we've been and who we can be.

Even movie buffs will be surprised just how much of a deep dive into Hollywood history Pierre Coffin’s latest animated ...

To find the lowest-rated action offerings in film history, Stacker compiled data on the 1,500 lowest-rated action movies on IMDb to come up with a Stacker score—a weighted index split evenly between ...

When it came to Superman's origin story, James Gunn mostly played it safe in his 2025 movie. While the plot zooms past Kal-El's birth on Krypton, his arrival on Earth, and his who ...

Take this rumor with the usual grain of salt, but if industry scooper Daniel Richtman is to be believed, Writer/Director ...

Timothy Olyphant is one cool dude. We know it. Does he know it? There’s something of Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman to his screen persona, Empire suggests — making it clear that we don’t want to ...

When fans talk about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , two moments almost always come up. The first is Indy surviving a nuclear blast by jumping inside a refrigerator, a scene that ...

Did our AI summary help? In 1977, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind imagined contact with aliens as an event inspiring awe. Five years later, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial envisioned ...

The quality and scope of his films make any attempt to rank them a fool’s errand: nevertheless, that’s exactly what I’ve tried to do below ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

But when that new movie – his first in four years – also contains the DNA of some the most revered films of his wildly varied career, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E. T: the ...