Columbia/Everett Collection; Mary Evans/AF Archive/Everett Collection; Paramount/Everett Collection
Ah, New Year’s Eve.
No time like a brand new year to learn you possess the power of time travel!
Didn’t you seeSleepless in Seattle?
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in ‘When Harry Met Sally’; Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon in ‘The Apartment’; Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in ‘Trading Places’.Credit:Columbia/Everett Collection; Mary Evans/AF Archive/Everett Collection; Paramount/Everett Collection
It could be worse: You could have to face your mom tomorrow at a turkey curry buffet.
ThisRenee Zellwegerromp is perfect NYE material: It’s all about fresh starts, clean slates, andColin Firth.
Entrapment(1999)
No plans this evening?
Christina Ricci and Casey Affleck in ‘200 Cigarettes’.Everett Collection
Why not pull off a major bank heist?
The Godfather Part II(1974)
Who said a midnight kiss had to be romantic?
his traitorous brother, Fredo (John Cazale).
Hugh Grant and Rachel Weisz in ‘About a Boy’.Laurie Sparham
Be prepared to break out the hula hoops.
While not a critics' favorite, we raise our glass to that level of star wattage.
Ocean’s 11(1960)
Step aside,Clooney.
Jenny Rainsford and Domhnall Gleeson in ‘About Time’.Universal
Boom, boom, POW!
She even (gasp!)
“Here’s to us.”
Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in ‘An Affair to Remember’.Everett Collection
Platonic pal/co-worker/womanizing roommate Eddie (the hunkyHugh Jackman) makes sure Jane is okay before a staff meeting.
After drinks and some late-night confessions about relationship fears, the roommates fall asleep next to each other.
Feelings become complicated as Jane tries to avoid getting hurt again.
Myrna Loy, William Powell, and Joseph Calleia in ‘After the Thin Man’.Everett Collection
Bonus: The movie’s anti-fat-cat-banker sentiment feels just as relevant today as it was in 1983.
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in ‘The Apartment’.Everett Collection
Renée Zellweger in ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’.Miramax
Catherine Zeta-Jones in ‘Entrapment’.Everett Collection
Al Pacino in ‘The Godfather Part II’.PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Paul Giamatti in ‘The Holdovers’.Seacia Pavao/FOCUS FEATURES
Tim Robbins in ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’.Warner Bros.
Ashton Kutcher and Lea Michele in ‘New Year’s Eve’.Andrew Schwartz
Richard Conte and Henry Silva in ‘Ocean’s 11’.Everett Collection
Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps in ‘Phantom Thread’.Laurie Sparham/Focus Features
Kurt Russell (center) in ‘Poseidon’.Claudette Barius
Sarah Jessica Parker in ‘Sex and the City: The Movie’.Warner Bros.
Bill Pullman and Meg Ryan in ‘Sleepless in Seattle’.TriStar Pictures
Ashley Judd in ‘Someone Like You’.20th Century Fox
Gloria Swanson and William Holden in ‘Sunset Boulevard’.Everett Collection
Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Eddie Murphy, and Denholm Elliott in ‘Trading Places’.Everett Collection
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in ‘When Harry Met Sally’.Everett Collection
