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 Magdalene Sisters(2002)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.



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.



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.



Bright Star(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.



Control(2007)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.



Holes(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.



Open Range(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.



Robin Hood(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.



Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg when she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes.



The Wind That Shakes the Barley(2006)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.



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.



The American(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.



Friday Night Lights(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.



Disturbia(2007)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer.



Dan in Real Life(2007)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother's girlfriend.



The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada(2005)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Ranch hand Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.



Bend It Like Beckham(2002)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism and joins a football team.



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 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.




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