The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



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.



Dan in Real Life(2007)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother's girlfriend.



Greenberg(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A man from Los Angeles, who moved to New York years ago, returns to L.A. to figure out his life while he house-sits for his brother. He soon sparks with his brother's assistant.



Two Lovers(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.



Monster's Ball(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.



Zack and Miri Make a Porno(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.



The Invention of Lying(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.



The Good Girl(2002)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.



Youth in Revolt(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity.



The Dreamers(2003)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.



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.



It's Kind of a Funny Story(2010)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.



Legally Blonde(2001)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.



Australia(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.



13 Going on 30(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A girl makes a wish on her thirteenth birthday, and wakes up the next day as a thirty-year-old woman.



Good Bye Lenin!(2003)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.



Music and Lyrics(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.



The Notebook(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.



Cyrus(2010)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 77

John and Molly, a divorced middle aged man and a single mother meet at a friends party and start up a small relationship, all John has to do now is meet Molly's son... Cyrus




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