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The 20 Greatest Cinematic Families

This month marks the beginning of the holiday season, a great time to get together with family—regardless of how you interpret that word—and a great season for new films. To celebrate this time of togetherness, here are our 20 favorite cinematic families.  read more

17 Films That Were Originally Rated NC-17

Last week Steve McQueen’s Shame received an NC-17, almost certainly ensuring that the film’s already limited release will be even more limited.  read more

The 20 Best Fictional Crime Bosses

Two episodes in, and Boardwalk Empire's Nucky Johnson (Steve Buscemi) seems destined to become one of the all-time great fictional crime bosses.  read more

The 20 Worst Sequels to Good Movies

Lest we forget that movie-making is a business, and a lucrative one at that, all we need to do is look at the list of terrible sequels that have been made to cash in on the success of good movies. There are a lot of them. In fact, a good sequel is such a rarity that it’s an easier critical task to cite the ones that worked as opposed to the long list of those that don’t. Here, we list the 20 worst sequels that followed up good (or, at least, entertaining) original films, and there are literally dozens more...  read more