30 Movies Everyone Actually Agrees On

Every group has the same problem: four people, four tastes, one screen. Someone wants something clever, someone wants something easy, someone's seen everything, and someone will fall asleep if it's over two hours.

These thirty movies are the closest thing to a universal solvent — films with broad appeal, low friction, and almost no one who'll actively veto them. They're not the "best movies of all time." They're the movies a room full of different people will actually agree to watch, which is a rarer and more useful quality.