Let Me In (2010)
June 6, 2026
Matt Reeves remakes Let the Right One In with care and conviction. Let Me In earns its 8 by being the rarest of things, an American remake of a beloved foreign film that justifies its own existence.
Tag: Childhood
Childhood on the page is memory doing reconstruction work. This tag collects reviews and essays on stories about childhood: wonder, terror, and the years that explain everyone’s adulthood.
1970sCarrie (1976)
May 19, 2026
Brian De Palma's 1976 King adaptation. Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta supporting.
1940sMeet Me in St. Louis (1944)
May 19, 2026
An 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…
1980sA Christmas Story (1983)
May 19, 2026
Peter Billingsley plays Ralphie. The film operates as memory instead of plot.
2010sInsidious (2010)
May 19, 2026
James Wan's haunted house story where a comatose boy's spirit is trapped in a dimensional space called the Further. Patrick Wilson plays Josh Lambert.
2010sThe Conjuring (2013)
May 19, 2026
Patrick Wilson plays Ed Warren. The Conjuring is one of the most commercially successful contemporary supernatural horror productions and the foundational document of the Conjuring Universe franchise that has dominated mid-2010s through early-2020s horror cinema.
1960sHow the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
May 19, 2026
Chuck Jones directs the animated Dr. Seuss special about a sour creature plotting to steal Christmas from the Whos in Whoville. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
2010sArthur Christmas (2011)
May 19, 2026
Santa'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…
1960sA Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
May 19, 2026
Charlie Brown directs the Peanuts gang in a Nativity pageant after rejecting the commercialism of the season. A Charlie Brown Christmas is Bill Melendez's 1965 American animated television special depicting Charlie Brown's depression at the commercialization of the Christmas season…
1960sRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
May 19, 2026
Billie 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.
2000sElf (2003)
May 19, 2026
A human raised by Santa's elves travels to New York City to find his biological father, an embittered publishing executive. Elf is Jon Favreau's 2003 American Christmas comedy about Buddy, a human raised among Santa's elves at the North Pole,…
2010sIt (2017)
May 19, 2026
Andrés Muschietti adapts the first half of King's novel about children battling a shape-shifting evil in 1980s Derry, Maine. It is Andrés Muschietti's 2017 American supernatural horror film adapting the first half of Stephen King's 1986 novel, depicting a group…