The Social Network(2010)

Combined Rating:
96
Combined Critics Rating: 94

Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.



Iron Man(2008)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.



The School of Rock(2003)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

After being kicked out of a rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of a strict elementary private school, only to try and turn it into a rock band.



A Beautiful Mind(2001)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.



The Royal Tenenbaums(2001)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A clan's estranged patriarch loses his home and learns that his ex-wife plans to remarry.



The Hours(2002)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 83

The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.



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.



Ali(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.



Frida(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.



Finding Forrester(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

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



Proof(2005)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.



21(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.



Akeelah and the Bee(2006)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee.



The Phantom of the Opera(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House. He kidnaps the soprano and forces the owners of the play to keep her as the lead role of the play.



August Rush(2007)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.



Joshua(2007)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua (Kogan), an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.



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.



St. Trinian's(2007)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 43

In order to save their bankrupt school, a group of troublesome girls stage a robbery with a group of geniuses on their tails.



Angels & Demons(2009)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church.



Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart(2010)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.




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