The Machinist(2004)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.



Defiance(2008)

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Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.



No Man's Land(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.



16 Blocks(2006)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

An aging alcoholic cop is assigned the task of escorting a witness from police custody to a courthouse 16 blocks away. There are, however, chaotic forces at work that prevent them from making it in one piece.



Wonder Boys(2000)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.



Somewhere(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.



We Were Soldiers(2002)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.



Lord of War(2005)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an Interpol Agent.



Youth in Revolt(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity.



The Good Girl(2002)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.



Valkyrie(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.



Monster's Ball(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.



Bloody Sunday(2002)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.



Frozen River(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling ...



North Country(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.



Frequency(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.



Madeo(2009)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Goo Jin, Hye-ja Kim, Je-mun Yun, Bin Won,
Joon-ho Bong,

A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.



Reign Over Me(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.



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 Runaways(2010)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. The relationship between band members Cherie Currie and Joan Jett is also explored.




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