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10. Clueless (1995) Technically, Paul Rudd’s first movie was the teen comedy hitClueless. In it he plays Josh, the eventual love interest of Alicia Silverstone’s Cher. The two have a playful banter and a sweet degree of understanding towards one another because Josh and Cher are ex-stepsiblings. He, of course, struggles with Cher’s plucky attitude and serves as her moral compass throughout her matchmaking endeavors. And yet, he always finds sympathy for her—even to the point of defending her after she mishandles her father’s legal papers....

10.Total War: Warhammer II You can’t round up PC strategy games without something from theWarhammeruniverse or a game from theTotal Warfranchise, so why not do both at once? Total War: Warhammer IIeschews the historical backgrounds the franchise is known for, opting for the originalWarhammer(ie. not 40,000) universe. That said, the epic real-time battles you know and love are still the spotlight. 9.XCOM 2 Another game from Firaxis,XCOM 2is much more of a tactics game, featuring on controlling individual units in battles with aliens who have taken over the earth....

10.Downwell Owing to its roots as a mobile game,Downwellis a perfect game for when you’ve only got a few minutes. That said, don’t expect the game to go easy on you. This downward-falling roguelike is going to take more than a few passes before you’re making serious progress on each run. 9.BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Like any fighting game, matches inBlazBlue: Cross Tag Battledon’t last all that long. Head online, and unless you’re really good, they’ll be over in less than that....

10. Gia in Twenty Something (2021) Twenty Somethingis from Pixar’s SparkShorts program, where Pixar employees are allowed six months to develop animated short films to be released on Disney+. This film is the coming-of-age story about a 21-year-old girl named Gia, who feels weighed down during her first hangout in a club. The animated short takes the trope of “three kids in a trenchcoat” and uses it to illustrate Gia’s insecurities, which are each derived from the one-, ten-, and sixteen-year-old versions of herself....

10.ClusterTruck In many ways,ClusterTruckis a deconstruction of the platformer genre. You’re running and jumping, but you’re not on a massive adventure or a journey to save a princess—you’re just hopping from truck to truck, ones that are driven by some truly awful drivers. Similar to a game likeSuper Meat Boy, this is a “just one more try” run to the end.ClusterTruckis a simple idea, but that doesn’t make it any less fun....