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.



Australia(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.



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.



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.



Before Night Falls(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
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, ...



A Knight's Tale(2001)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.



The Piano Teacher(2001)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.



Frida(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.



My Big Fat Greek Wedding(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.



Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.



Sex and the City(2008)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.



Away We Go(2009)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.



Love & Other Drugs(2010)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A young woman suffering from Parkinson's befriends a drug rep working for Pfizer in 1990s Pittsburgh.



Knight and Day(2010)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A young woman gets mixed up with a disgraced spy who is trying to clear his name.



Morning Glory(2010)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

An upstart television producer accepts the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program with warring co-hosts.



Monsoon Wedding(2001)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.



50 First Dates(2004)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the very next day.



The Woodsman(2004)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.



In Her Shoes(2005)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Strait-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister knew existed.



The Holiday(2006)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.




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