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What Makes a Great Family Board Game? When I think of board games that are great for families, there are several important criteria I think they need to meet: With that said, here are my picks for the best family board games of all time that are absolutely worth playing right now. Note:Despite considerable overlap, we consider party board games as separate from family board games. Want something more party-style? See ourbest party board games for groups....

11. Secret in Their Eyes (2015) Our first pick already deals with motherhood as an overarching motif. Has there ever been a movie where being a father played a significant role in a detective’s story? (MaybePrisoners.) But inSecret in Their Eyes, Jess Cobb’s daughter is relevant to the plot. Julia Roberts is always a safe casting bet because she’s able to pull off almost any role, especially a mother (as we saw inErin Brockovich,Ben Is Back, andWonder)....

11. Top of the Lake (2013) The detective genre has a stricter formula than most movie genres, so it’s harder to explore new dimensions within it that haven’t already been rehashed so many times. ButTop of the Lakemanages to elegantly transform the predictable into something haunting, like an impressionist painting come to life against the New Zealand mountains (where the show is set). At its center is Elisabeth Moss as Robin Griffin, a detective from Sydney whose softness and optimism break against her razor-sharp surroundings as well as the cynical detective stereotype....

11. Marriage Story (2019) Have you seen the meme where Adam Driver is shouting ‘til he’s red in the face? That scene comes fromMarriage Story! But he’s not even the most interesting part. Who’s he screaming at? As it turns out, Scarlett Johansson is opposite Adam Driver inMarriage Story, and she puts in an equally intense, equally red-faced performance as his ex-wife Nicole. The screaming match comes two-thirds of the way through the film when the couple—both having lost their voices in their marriage—scream to get their points across (without a mediator this time)....

11. Sleepy Hollow (1999) Sleepy Hollowis loosely based on Washington Irving’s short story,The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, centering on the character of Ichabod Crane (played by Johnny Depp), a New York police constable who travels to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of concerning decapitations. Once there, he soon figures out that everyone in the village is thinking the same thing: the perpetrator of these murders is no one other than the Headless Horseman, a mythological figure who takes other people’s heads because someone stole his own....