Superbad (2007)

I'll just come out and say it: Judd Apatow is singlehandedly saving the R-rated comedy. Everything he's touched has gone golden, from 40 Year Old Virgin, to Knocked Up. Here he takes a producing role in what is, in my opinion, the best yet in his ongoing string of extremely smart, hilariously raunchy, and embarrassingly honest comedies. It just feels like what the end of high school was like—the parties, the drinking, the desperate attempts to stay friends with people you probably were never going to see again, and that one last chance to prove to yourself that there was some point to it all. Movies like this come along once in a very long while: the kind of film that for better or worse defines a generation of teenagers. It's the kind of film that, frankly, should be required viewing for anyone with a high school aged kid. This is how it is, hilarious warts and all.

10 out of 10.