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.



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.



Duplicity(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one.



2046(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 76

The women who enter a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.



Zack and Miri Make a Porno(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.



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.



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.



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.



Two Lovers(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.



The Invention of Lying(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.



Chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.



Appaloosa(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.



Legally Blonde(2001)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.



In Good Company(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A middle-aged ad exec is faced with a new boss who's nearly half his age... and who also happens to be sleeping with his daughter.



The Notebook(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.



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.



The Island(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.



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.



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.



Secretary(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.




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