The Perfect Storm(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.



Quills(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.



Shadow of the Vampire(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.



Misery(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.



Good Will Hunting(1997)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.



Pleasantville(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.



A Simple Plan(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan.



10 Things I Hate About You(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A pretty, popular teenager can't go out on a date until her ill-tempered older sister does.



Notting Hill(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.



Bringing Out the Dead(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Haunted by the patients he failed to save, an extremely burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three fraught and turbulent nights.



Dancer in the Dark(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.



Thirteen Days(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A dramatization and a fictionalized account of the Kennedy administration's struggle to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.



Finding Forrester(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.



Before Night Falls(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, ...



Boyz n the Hood(1991)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.



The Player(1992)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?



In the Name of the Father(1993)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.



Sling Blade(1996)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.



Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai(1999)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.




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