Big Fish(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.



Requiem for a Dream(2000)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.



House of Sand and Fog(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.



Something's Gotta Give(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.



RED(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.



The Devil Wears Prada(2006)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.



The Informant!(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



Vera Drake(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.



The Last Samurai(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.



Monster House(2006)

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Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.



Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest(2006)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.



Love Actually(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.



Thirteen(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.



Duplicity(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one.



The Messenger(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 79

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.



Billy Elliot(2000)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.



Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.



The Painted Veil(2006)

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Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.



The Blind Side(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.




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