Marta Bausells: Simple but effective, cheesy but hilarious, this 1997 romcom has important lessons to teach about life, love – and desserts

The rommiest of all romcoms shows Whitney Houston at the beginning of her greatness – plus it has one of the best head-shaking snogs in film, writes Maeve Shearlaw

A nuclear-powered bus with a dodgy driver at the wheel is speeding across America ... It's going to be a bumpy ride, writes Paul Simon

Watching Juila Roberts take a year-long romp of global self-discovery, the thing most people miss is that the film is a pin-sharp mockery of Liz Gilbert's bestselling book, writes David Jenkins

Playful, nauseatingly colourful and indisputably terrible, the second Charlie's Angel film was out of synch with its dark and moody times. Now it looks like a feminist masterpiece, writes Ali Gray

Eva Mendes and Will Smith have zero chemistry, but with equal parts bromance and romance, along with a star turn from Kevin James, it's the perfect movie to while away a rainy day, writes Nancy Groves

Paul WS Anderson's franchise mash-up doesn't make a lot of sense, but it is a bug-eyed, all-action depiction of warring alien natures, green in tooth and claw, with a great cast. And it finds romance in the unlikeliest places, writes Dave Turner

Cliche, excess, unintentional hilarity – Tom Cruise's second outing as Ethan Hunt is utterly awful. But to revisit the film without enjoying it? That really would be mission: impossible, writes Ben Travis

It's got an escaped killer who bakes tastilicious breakfast muffins, an awkward script and some highly embarrassing scenes. But as a nostalgia film, Jason Reitman's treacly yarn is a surefire winner, writes Lydia Smears

The Farrelly brothers' timeless – and endlessly quotable – roadtrip farce is a smart masterclass in slapstick humour, writes Hayley Dunlop

A lesson in manhood for my 10-year-old self, Nicolas Cage gets to hijack a plane and save his diabetic buddy with lots of explosions. It's a gloriously boneheaded macho-fest, writes Will Coldwell

Ellie Violet Bramley: Ok, you've blown my cover … Arnold Schwarzenegger pulls the ferret out of the hat to deliver a 90s cinematic gem

Eddie Murphy steals every scene and redeems this role-reversal comedy, with its toe-curling scenes of blacking-up, a cliched tart with a heart, and gorilla-human rape

Sure, it's a shameless plug for Nintendo, but this goofy ode to old-fashioned video games casts a surprisingly moving spell

Becky Barnicoat: Spread the word – Wolfgang Petersen's brilliantly terrifying film about a deadly virus coughs up a cast to die for

It may be a formulaic knockabout comedy, but beneath the surface of this early Jim Carrey outing lurks a compelling honesty – and an important life lesson, writes Tom Lamont