Films the whole household can watch without anyone suffering. Family movie reviews that respect kids enough to demand real stories, not just bright noise.
DramaOrdinary People (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Robert Redford's first film as director is a carefully observed drama about a family that cannot discuss a death, and it won Best Picture and Director over Raging…
DramaHow Green Was My Valley (1941) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. John Ford's film about a Welsh mining family across roughly twenty years is a good film that has spent eighty-four years being the answer to…
AdaptationThe Disney live action remakes rate 3 out of 10 as a body of work. Fifteen years, a dozen and a half films, several billion dollars, and a program whose governing principle is that the animated version should be reproduced…
FamilySnow White (2025) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The remake that ended the remake program. It cost somewhere around two hundred and seventy million dollars, spent two years being argued about before anybody saw it, and…
ActionSpeed Racer (2008) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The Wachowskis spent a hundred and twenty million dollars building a candy-colored world with no shadows in it, made ninety-four back, and produced the most misunderstood studio film…
AnimatedWarner Bros. finished Coyote vs. Acme, shelved it for a tax write-off, and refused to sell it at a sane price for eighteen months. Ketchup Entertainment released it anyway, and the film is holding three weekends deep. Rated 9 out…
ChristmasA department store Santa claims to be the real Kris Kringle, and a lawyer must defend him in court. Miracle on 34th Street is George Seaton's 1947 American Christmas drama about a department store Santa who claims to be the…
ChristmasAn Episcopal bishop praying for help with his cathedral project receives an angel who arrives to assist, though not in the way expected. David Niven plays Bishop Henry Brougham.
ChristmasAn American family in 1903 St. Louis faces upheaval when the father announces a move to New York, with Christmas as the season of crisis. Meet Me in St. Louis is Vincente Minnelli's 1944 American musical depicting the upper-middle-class Smith…
ChristmasPeter Billingsley plays Ralphie. The film operates as memory instead of plot.
AnimatedBillie Mae Richards voices Rudolph. The special is technically stop-motion puppet animation instead of claymation, executed by Tadahito Mochinaga's animation team at MOM Production in Tokyo.
AnimatedSanta's bumbling son Arthur must deliver a forgotten present before sunrise, using an antique sleigh and his grandfather's wisdom. Arthur Christmas is Sarah Smith's 2011 British-American animated Christmas comedy from Aardman Animations depicting the modern operation of Santa's high-tech global…
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