8 Movies to Watch With Your Parents This Weekend

PG or PG-13, every one an 8.2 or better on movie.guru, picked so your parents, you and the kid on the floor all stay awake.

Number one has tiny forest warriors, and I will defend them forever.

1. 8
   Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)9.6

   Proof your grandpa's sense of humor was always this dark.

   95 minutes, made for a reported $1.8 million, and critics rank it above 98% of notable movies. The jokes are dry, the stakes are huge, and everyone laughs at different parts.
2. 7
   Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)9.0

   The one Marvel movie your parents will actually cheer at.

   An A+ CinemaScore and $1.92 billion worldwide. Villains from the older Spider-Man movies come back, so your parents finally recognize somebody in a Marvel movie.
3. 6
   3 Idiots (2009)8.5

   The best family movie you've never seen runs 170 minutes.

   100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.4 on IMDb, $60.3 million worldwide. Aamir Khan takes on an engineering college, and every parent in the room will feel personally called out about grades.
4. 5
   It's a Wonderful Life (1946)9.6

   George Bailey is the best dad in movies. He doesn't know.

   A 9.6 on movie.guru and 8.6 on IMDb. Your grandparents know every line, your parents know every beat, and in 130 minutes you'll finally get why.
5. 4
   Casablanca (1942)9.7

   Bogart in a white tuxedo still out-cools every action hero.

   8.5 on IMDb in just 102 minutes. Humphrey Bogart plays it cool, a whole bar sings down the bad guys, and the romance holds up better than most made last year.
6. 3
   Rear Window (1954)9.7

   Your mom will solve it first. Let her.

   Metacritic gives it a perfect 100, made for a reported $1 million. James Stewart can't leave his chair, so the whole family ends up playing detective for 112 minutes.
7. 2
   Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)9.6

   Grandma will root for Indy louder than anyone in the room.

   An A+ CinemaScore and $389.9 million worldwide on a reported $18 million budget. Harrison Ford makes the whole couch want a fedora.
8. 1
   Return of the Jedi (1983)8.1

   The Ewoks are good, actually, and this is my hill.

   An A+ CinemaScore and 8.3 on IMDb from 1.23 million votes. Your parents saw it first, your little cousin wants an Ewok of their own, and nobody's wrong.

$57.04 says your dad pauses Raiders to explain the boulder scene to people who are watching the boulder scene.

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