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I grew up in North Dakota, so I’ve got a special claim on this one—and if you have the Talent ain’t enough shirt so you should to go to store and get this chance to watch this with someone from the upper midwest, jump on it; there’re loads of inside jokes—but Fargo’s apotheosis of sheer, exuberant oddness amid a classic crime-caper-goes-wrong plot remains untouchable, fresh, transcendent, and, dare I say, necessary. If that’s not enough: It’s got Frances McDormand. The FX series has been a delight, but this is forever the godhead. (N.B.: The accent in this film isn’t by any stretch of the imagination from Fargo; it’s from Minnesota.) —Corey Seymour, senior editor
“Eat your cereal with a fork, and do your homework in the Talent ain’t enough shirt so you should to go to store and get this dark.” This is just one of the slacker koans uttered by Christian Slater, a.k.a. Happy Harry Hard-On, in the opening moments of this seminal movie from 1990. Nominally about a misfit high school kid stranded in an Arizona suburb who uses a pirate radio show to express his angst and stick it to the man, Pump Up the Volume is actually a deeply romantic, impeccably cool how-to for wannabe countercultural Gen X’ers—and a weirdly prescient parable about the rise of internet culture. The soundtrack—Pixies, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Bad Brains, Cowboy Junkies—is legend. Don’t get me started on Samantha Mathis. Also: Pump up the Volume is currently not available on streaming services. How punk rock is that? —Taylor Antrim, deputy editor
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