How often does a film come along that you can comfortably recommend to literally everyone in your life? Not often enough. For that reason alone, Thelma deserves to be celebrated. It may not seem like the most obvious summer blockbuster, but it’s the rare kind of film you can watch with your parents—or your grandparents, or your kids—confident in the knowledge that you’ll all have a great time at the movies. That’s not just down to the playful action-spoof premise or the multigenerational cast, though those are both worth praising. Thelma is simply an enjoyable film with an endearing protagonist you can’t help but root for. It helps in this case that the protagonist is played by the indomitable June Squibb. At 93 years old she capably holds down the center of this film in the title role, with a little help from the late Richard Roundtree (Shaft himself) as her longtime friend and adventuring sidekick Ben. It’s a delight to spend time with these feisty characters as they traverse the San Fernando Valley via motorized scooter on a quixotic quest to track down the thieves who scammed $10,000 out of Thelma over the phone. –AV Club

“On top of the delightful performances by its entire cast and those winking action sequences, Thelma is genuinely one of the funniest films I’ve seen in a while.”–Baltimore Magazine