Good Will Hunting(1997)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.



Frida(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.



Finding Forrester(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.



Proof(2005)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.



21(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.



Now You See Me 2(2016)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The Four Horsemen resurface, and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet.



Pi(1998)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.



October Sky(1999)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.



Akeelah and the Bee(2006)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee.



Pawn Sacrifice(2014)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.



Shine(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.



The Phantom of the Opera(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House. He kidnaps the soprano and forces the owners of the play to keep her as the lead role of the play.



The Man Who Knew Infinity(2015)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.



The Zero Theorem(2013)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A hugely talented but socially isolated computer operator is tasked by Management to prove the Zero Theorem: that the universe ends as nothing, rendering life meaningless. But meaning is what he already craves.



The Signal(2014)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 61

On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness - only to find himself in a waking nightmare.



Darkman(1990)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.



August Rush(2007)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.



Victor Frankenstein(2015)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.



Cube(1997)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.



Joshua(2007)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua (Kogan), an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.




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