Southpaw(2015)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A champion boxer fights to get his daughter back from child protective services as well as revive his professional career, after a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction.



Hustle(2022)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A basketball scout discovers a phenomenal street ball player while in Spain and sees the prospect as his opportunity to get back into the NBA.



The Last Samurai(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.



Friday Night Lights(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.



Red Sparrow(2018)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.



Full Metal Jacket(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.



The Way Back(2020)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Jack Cunningham was a high school basketball phenom who walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Years later, when he reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater, he may get one last shot at redemption.



Chariots of Fire(1981)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.



Spy Game(2001)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.



The Rookie(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.



The Recruit(2003)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.



Miracle(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.



Ender's Game(2013)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion.



Coach Carter(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.



Mortal Kombat(2021)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.



Eddie the Eagle(2016)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 70

The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics.



The Longest Yard(2005)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.



The Guardian(2006)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.



Men of Honor(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American, then also the first amputee, U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.



Bad News Bears(2005)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.




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