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.



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.



Anna Karenina(2012)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.



Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.(2023)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 86

When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.



St. Vincent(2014)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.



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.



The Equalizer(2014)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by - he has to help her.



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.



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.



Fright Night(2011)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

After a new neighbor moved into the house next door, Charley discovers that he is an ancient vampire and goes in search for the help of Peter Vincent, a famous "vampire killer" to save his neighborhood from the creature.



The Virgin Suicides(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid-1970s.



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.



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.



Carnage(2011)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.



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.



Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle(2017)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game.



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.



Joe(2013)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.



Clueless(1995)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil's popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way.




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