AMC Theatres is re-releasing two of Dolly Parton's most beloved movies, Steel Magnolias and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, starting today, August 28. It's a tribute run, and honestly I can't think of a better way to spend a weekend at the movies. You can read the original reporting right here.

If you've never seen Steel Magnolias in a theater with other people... that's about to change and you should let it. The 1989 film has one of the most devastating scenes in any movie ever made, and experiencing it with a full audience sobbing together is kind of the whole point. It's Dolly alongside Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, and Daryl Hannah, all playing women who gather in a Louisiana beauty salon and carry each other through everything life throws at them. It's funny, it's mean in the way only close friends can be, and it will wreck you.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is the complete opposite energy. It's 1982, it's a musical, it's Dolly and Burt Reynolds having absurd chemistry, and it features her iconic take on "I Will Always Love You" years before Whitney made it a global event. Dolly wrote that song, by the way. Wrote it, released it, and then watched two of the biggest voices in history take turns with it. Just who she was, through and through.

And I keep writing "was," which still doesn't feel real.

I've written before that the theatrical experience with a crowd is genuinely worth it for certain releases, and this is exactly what I meant. These movies were made for communal viewing. Laughing at Truvy's one-liners with a room full of people, or singing along with a theater full of fans who grew up on these films. Your couch cannot replicate that.

The re-releases start today at AMC locations, so check your local listings for showtimes because these tribute runs tend to be short. If you've only ever caught bits of Steel Magnolias on cable at your grandma's house, this is your shot to see it properly. (My grandma, for the record, would absolutely be first in line for this, and she'd have opinions about the projection quality.)

Dolly Parton gave us decades of music, movies, and straight up joy. Two of her films back on the big screen feels like the right way to sit with all of it. Bring tissues. I'm not joking about the tissues.