Slumdog Millionaire(2008)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian Version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"



Twilight(2008)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.



Sunshine Cleaning(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister.



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.



Jumper(2008)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A teenager with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators.



Sex Drive(2008)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.



The Secret Life of Bees(2008)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with ...



The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2(2008)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.



Me and Orson Welles(2008)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 76

In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.



Drillbit Taylor(2008)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully.



Nim's Island(2008)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.



Hamlet 2(2008)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 66

In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.



Never Back Down(2008)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A frustrated and conflicted teenager arrives at a new high school to discover an underground fight club and meet a classmate who begins to coerce him into fighting.



Oorlogswinter(2008)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.



The Burning Plain(2008)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.



Kit Kittredge: An American Girl(2008)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.



Inkheart(2008)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A young girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.



Jodhaa Akbar(2008)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha.



The Black Balloon(2008)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 56

All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie, accept his brother?



Adoration(2008)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 67

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.




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