WALL-E

WALL-E + Eve

He's yesterday's tech and she's the soul of the New Machine - by all rights, theirs should be the love that dare not speak its programming code. Yet one of the primal joys of "WALL-E" (2008) is watching the sleek white Eve come around to the rusty, clanky charms of the title sentinel. They're the Tracy and Hepburn of sci-fi family apocalypse.

—T.B