Elephant(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.



Something's Gotta Give(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.



The Karate Kid(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master.



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.



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.



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.



Thirteen(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.



Zathura: A Space Adventure(2005)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is hurled through the depths of space by the magical board game they are playing.



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.



The Blind Side(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.



Joy Ride(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.



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.



13 Going on 30(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A girl makes a wish on her thirteenth birthday, and wakes up the next day as a thirty-year-old woman.



It's Kind of a Funny Story(2010)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.



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.



Music and Lyrics(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.



The Kite Runner(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.



Mysterious Skin(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.



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 Rookie(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.




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