
Downloaded over a billion times since its launch just two years ago, TikTok has taken the tech world by storm with its endless stream of viral dance routines, comedy lip sync clips and impenetrable intertextual memes. And with a user base seemingly comprised of nothing but whip-smart 15-year-olds, itโs become perhaps the definitive online home of Generation Z.

Downloaded over a billion times since its launch just two years ago, TikTok has taken the tech world by storm with its endless stream of viral dance routines, comedy lip sync clips and impenetrable intertextual memes. And with a user base seemingly comprised of nothing but whip-smart 15-year-olds, itโs become perhaps the definitive online home of Generation Z.
2019-09-30
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7.2Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school โ the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year โ before she begins high school.
6.2When nerdy high schooler Dani finally attracts the interest of her longtime crush, she lands in the cross hairs of his ex, a social media celebrity.
7.3After being uprooted by his parents' separation and unable to fit into his new hometown, a teenager stumbles upon a magical app that causes his social media updates to come true.
7.4When Canterlot Highschool goes on a trip to Camp Everfree, theyโre surprised to find a magical force is causing strange things to happen around camp. With the help of the Mane 6 and especially Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle must confront the dark โMidnight Sparkleโ within herself and embrace her newfound magical abilities to save the camp.
6.0McKayla and Sadie, two death-obsessed teenage girls, use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small Midwestern town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.
6.5To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend, an influencer attempts to transform an unpopular classmate into prom king.
6.5A young, aspiring hero and superhero fan inadvertently unleashes a powerful new villain looking to rid the world of the Avengers.
6.4A dethroned queen bee at a posh private high school strikes a secret deal with an unassuming new student to enact revenge on one anotherโs enemies.
6.8A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.
6.2A cranky middle-aged dad and his two best friends find themselves out of step in a changing world of millennial CEOs and powerful preschool principals.
6.5Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.
6.4Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "Fido" will rip your heart out.
6.9The Jungle Beat animals think itโs the best thing ever when an alien arrives in the jungle bringing with him the power of speech. They also surprisingly think itโs the best thing ever when they find out that heโs been sent to conquer them.
7.1When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
7.2Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
6.0Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
7.2Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope's video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet โ the netizens โ to help navigate their way, including an entrepreneur named Yesss, who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site BuzzzTube.