Best movies that are award winners or nominees in writing (screenplay based on material previously produced or published) category

The Muse(1999)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 60

With his career on the skids, a Hollywood screenwriter enlists the aid of a modern-day muse, who proves to test his patience.



High Fidelity(2000)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.



Punch-Drunk Love(2002)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.



The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(2005)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.



Hellboy II: The Golden Army(2008)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.



Border(2018)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.



Planet of the Apes(1968)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.



Smokey and the Bandit(1977)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 45

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.



Flashdance(1983)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.



The Fly(1986)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.



Postcards from the Edge(1990)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.



Metropolitan(1990)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.



Soapdish(1991)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 54

An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.



Little Women(1994)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.



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.



Ulee's Gold(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.



The Thin Red Line(1998)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.



A Bug's Life(1998)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.



The Others(2001)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.



Despicable Me(2010)

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Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 36

When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.




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