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.



Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Following an accidental encounter with otherworldly vessels, an ordinary man follows a series of psychic clues to the first scheduled meeting between representatives of Earth and visitors from the cosmos.



Network(1976)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.



Boogie Nights(1997)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.



Dark Waters(2019)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.



The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.



Lone Survivor(2013)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.



Southpaw(2015)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A champion boxer fights to get his daughter back from child protective services as well as revive his professional career, after a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction.



Cloud Atlas(2012)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.



One Hour Photo(2002)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A mentally unstable photo developer begins to attack a middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.



Richard Jewell(2019)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 80

American security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely reported that he was a terrorist.



Spring Breakers(2012)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Four college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.



In America(2002)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.



Unbroken(2014)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.



Whip It(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.



The Bling Ring(2013)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.



The Damned United(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.



Greyhound(2020)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack.



Safety Not Guaranteed(2012)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified advertisement seeking a companion for time travel.



The Lincoln Lawyer(2011)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A lawyer defending a wealthy man begins to believe his client is guilty of more than just one crime.




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