Nicholas Nickleby(2002)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.



Running with Scissors(2006)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.



The Shipping News(2001)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.



Veronica Guerin(2003)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 66

An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.



Being Julia(2004)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in '30s London, the film involves stage actors and their experiences with love and revenge.



Life as a House(2001)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 58

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.



Saving Grace(2000)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.



The Banger Sisters(2002)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Lavinia and Suzette, former rock groupies and best friends, reconnect after twenty years; one is still as wild as ever, while the other has adopted a more conservative lifestyle.



Beyond the Sea(2004)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin (Spacey) specifically, and his relationship with his wife Sandra Dee (Bosworth).



Casino Jack(2010)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.



All the Pretty Horses(2000)

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Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Two Texas cowboys head to Mexico in search of work, but soon find themselves in trouble with the law after one of them falls in love with a wealthy rancher's daughter.



Winter's Bone(2010)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 45

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.



Sherrybaby(2006)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.



Traffic(2000)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.



Capote(2005)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.



Pride & Prejudice(2005)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?



Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 42

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.



Grace Is Gone(2007)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.



The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(2005)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.



Punch-Drunk Love(2002)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.




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