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.

Released in 1997, Air Force One is the purest expression of that fantasy in film. Harrison Ford stars as President James ...

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Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

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 ...

Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film Black Hawk Down has returned to streaming in 2026. The 144-minute film, based on Mark Bowden’s nonfiction account of the 1993 US military operation in Mogadishu, is ...

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 ...

Los Angeles — Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T" to his new sci-fi thriller "Disclosure Day," Steven Spielberg has spent ...

Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T” to his new sci-fi thriller “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg has spent nearly the entire ...

Steven Spielberg and aliens go back a long time – they're the cinematic equivalent of peanut butter and jelly. And the history of that successful pairing has led to his new sci-fi thriller “Disclosure ...

Steven Spielberg is sometimes unfairly tagged as the ultimate Boomer, repeatedly harkening back to the entertainment that spellbound him in his youth. And there was a time, far earlier in his career, ...

Alien invasion movies don’t always send us into orbit, but there are more than a few we consider to be out of this world. And the thing about UFO films is, even when they are bad, they can be a total ...