It's summertime, and the movies are loud enough to burst your eardrums and jam-packed with explosions and car chases and gunfights. Which is just how we like our summer movies.

But if you need a bit of a break, it's worth remembering that there are, in fact, more than a few movies that are wildly entertaining even without having been touched by the Steven Spielberg angel or the Michael Bay devil. And even better, because these movies rely on small, quiet stuff like wit and humanity and a…