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.



Heat(1995)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist, while both sides attempt to find balance between their personal and their professional lives.



Apollo 13(1995)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.



Jerry Maguire(1996)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary.



The Virgin Suicides(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid-1970s.



Boys Don't Cry(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Female-born Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.



The Cider House Rules(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.



Wonder Boys(2000)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.



Reservoir Dogs(1992)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



The Usual Suspects(1995)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.



The Green Mile(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.



Chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.



Frequency(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.



You Can Count on Me(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.



The Crying Game(1992)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.



Four Weddings and a Funeral(1994)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.



Dogma(1999)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.



Chasing Amy(1997)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.



A Simple Plan(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan.




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