Sunday afternoon
Six franchises for when you want something on that you do not have to concentrate on and will not regret.
6 picks
Not every watch is an event. Sometimes the requirement is a film you have half-seen before, that asks for nothing, and that leaves you in a better mood than it found you.
These are the franchises that hold up to being half-watched, and reward you if you happen to pay attention.
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Toy Story
6 titles · Sci-Fi & FantasyThe safest bet here. Funny at any age, quietly devastating at the right one, and never more than a hundred minutes.
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Shrek
7 titles · Sci-Fi & FantasyAged strangely well. The jokes aimed at adults in 2001 are the ones that still land.
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Indiana Jones
6 titles · Action & ThrillerAdventure films with no homework and no stakes beyond the immediate. Perfect background, better foreground.
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Karate Kid
7 titles · Action & ThrillerSincere in a way films stopped being for about thirty years. Cobra Kai then spends six seasons taking it seriously.
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Despicable Me
7 titles · Sci-Fi & FantasyLoud, silly and entirely unbothered about it. The correct choice when there are children in the room and also when there are not.
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Rocky
9 titles · Action & ThrillerThe most reliable emotional payoff in cinema, repeated nine times, and it works every single time.
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