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.



News of the World(2020)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.



Me and Earl and the Dying Girl(2015)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.



The Impossible(2012)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.



War Horse(2011)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.



Noah(2014)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Noah is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.



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.



Easy A(2010)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.



A Monster Calls(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's terminal illness.



Crazy, Stupid, Love.(2011)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.



Nocturnal Animals(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A wealthy art gallery owner receives a draft of her ex-husband's new novel, and once she starts reading it she just cannot put it down.



Captain Fantastic(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.



Short Term 12(2013)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.



The Gift(2015)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than 20 years.



Shame(2011)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A man's carefully cultivated private life is disrupted when his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.



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.



Black Mass(2015)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.



50/50(2011)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.



The Fault in Our Stars(2014)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam.



Wind River(2017)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A veteran tracker with the Fish and Wildlife Service helps to investigate the murder of a young Native American woman, and uses the case as a means of seeking redemption for an earlier act of irresponsibility which ended in tragedy.




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