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.



Good Will Hunting(1997)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.



Finding Forrester(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.



Pi(1998)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.



October Sky(1999)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.



Shine(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.



Darkman(1990)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.



Cube(1997)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.



Chaplin(1992)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A film about the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.



Mighty Aphrodite(1995)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 50

When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.



I.Q.(1994)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from Einstein and his friends.



Phenomenon(1996)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 42

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.



Little Man Tate(1991)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that ...



The Lawnmower Man(1992)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.



The Luzhin Defence(2000)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Two worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.



The Avengers(1998)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Two British agents team up to stop Sir August de Wynter from destroying the world with a weather-changing machine.



The Sandlot(1993)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many adventures.



La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano(1998)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.



Mary Shelley's Frankenstein(1994)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

When the brilliant, but unorthodox scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes, and later swears revenge.



Kingpin(1996)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.




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