Do the Right Thing(1989)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 80

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.



Back to the Future(1985)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.





This Is Spinal Tap(1984)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.



Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.



Airplane!(1980)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.



A Fish Called Wanda(1988)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.



When Harry Met Sally...(1989)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.



Tootsie(1982)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.



Ghostbusters(1984)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.



After Hours(1985)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.



Hannah and Her Sisters(1986)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.



Big(1988)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.



Dead Poets Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.



Gremlins(1984)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.



A Christmas Story(1983)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.



Moonstruck(1987)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Loretta Castorini, a book keeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.



The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!(1988)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Incompetent police detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.



Say Anything...(1989)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.



The Blues Brothers(1980)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.




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