Slumdog Millionaire(2008)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian Version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"



Twilight(2008)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.



Sunshine Cleaning(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister.



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.



Jumper(2008)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A teenager with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators.



Sex Drive(2008)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.



Me and Orson Welles(2008)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 76

In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.



The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2(2008)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.



The Secret Life of Bees(2008)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with ...



Nim's Island(2008)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.



Drillbit Taylor(2008)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully.



Hamlet 2(2008)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 66

In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.



Never Back Down(2008)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A frustrated and conflicted teenager arrives at a new high school to discover an underground fight club and meet a classmate who begins to coerce him into fighting.



Oorlogswinter(2008)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.



The Burning Plain(2008)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.



Kit Kittredge: An American Girl(2008)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.



Jodhaa Akbar(2008)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha.



Inkheart(2008)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A young girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.



The Black Balloon(2008)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 56

All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie, accept his brother?



Adoration(2008)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 67

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.




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