Invictus(2009)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.



Julie & Julia(2009)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.



The Damned United(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.



Bright Star(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.



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.



I Love You Phillip Morris(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with.



The Soloist(2009)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.



The Young Victoria(2009)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.



Nowhere Boy(2009)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.



The Last Station(2009)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.



Taking Woodstock(2009)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.



Agora(2009)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.



Vincere(2009)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 76

The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.



Amelia(2009)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.



Public Enemies(2009)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.



Mao's Last Dancer(2009)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In ...



Coco avant Chanel(2009)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 33

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.



Notorious(2009)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 30

The life and death story of Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm.



John Rabe(2009)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.



Desert Flower(2009)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 40

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN ...




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