Mystic River(2003)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one has a family tragedy.



Atonement(2007)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.



L.A. Confidential(1997)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.



Gosford Park(2001)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 85

The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.



The Constant Gardener(2005)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.



The Hateful Eight(2015)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.



Chinatown(1974)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.



Reversal of Fortune(1990)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.



Twelve Monkeys(1995)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 37

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.



In the Heat of the Night(1967)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.



Primal Fear(1996)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 24

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.



Klute(1971)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.



The Birds(1963)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.



Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte(1964)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.



Agnes of God(1985)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 19

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.



Equus(1977)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.



The Hospital(1971)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 9

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.



The Prize(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.



Desire in the Dust(1960)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Lonnie Wilson, the son of a toothless sharecropper, Zuba Wilson, returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an ...