Darkest Hour(2017)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 84

During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.



I, Tonya(2017)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.



Walk the Line(2005)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.



Kaze tachinu(2013)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.



Philomena(2013)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.



Straight Outta Compton(2015)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.



The Insider(1999)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco.



Napoleon(2023)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.



Monster(2003)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.



Ray(2004)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.



Cinderella Man(2005)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.



The Last King of Scotland(2006)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970's.



Margin Call(2011)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.



A Dangerous Method(2011)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.



Mr. Turner(2014)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 89

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.



The Lost City of Z(2016)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.



Raging Bull(1980)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.



Rescue Dawn(2006)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.



The Sessions(2012)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.



Dolemite Is My Name(2019)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.




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