Igby Goes Down(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.



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.



Invincible(2006)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.



Yi yi(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Each member of a middle class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.



Blow(2001)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

The story of George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel, headed by Pablo Escobar established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.



Man on Fire(2004)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect.



Saved!(2004)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When a girl attending a Christian high school becomes pregnant, she finds herself ostracized and demonized, as all of her former friends turn on her.



The Woodsman(2004)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.



Freedom Writers(2007)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

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.



Jennifer's Body(2009)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A newly possessed high school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?



Nowhere Boy(2009)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.



Lilja 4-ever(2002)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.



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.



Remember the Titans(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.



Mr. Bean's Holiday(2007)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two come back together. On the way he discovers France, bicycling, and true love, among other things.



17 Again(2009)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Mike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he tried to save a janitor near a bridge and jumped after him into a time vortex.



Bring It On(2000)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A champion high school cheerleading squad discovers its previous captain stole all their best routines from an inner-city school and must scramble to compete at this year's championships.



The Princess Diaries(2001)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Mia Thermopolis has just found out that she is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia. With her friends Lilly and Michael Moscovitz in tow, she tries to navigate through the rest of her sixteenth year.



Sweet Home Alabama(2002)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A young woman who's reinvented herself as a New York socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, after seven years of separation.




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