Spotlight(2015)

Combined Rating:
95
Combined Critics Rating: 94

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.



Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri(2017)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 92

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.



Knives Out(2019)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.



Arrival(2016)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors.





Mystic River(2003)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one has a family tragedy.



BlacKkKlansman(2018)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 90

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.



L.A. Confidential(1997)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.



Eastern Promises(2007)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.



Gosford Park(2001)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 85

The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.



The Constant Gardener(2005)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.



Flight(2012)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.



Inherent Vice(2014)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 85

In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.



Munich(2005)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.



The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2011)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.



Alien(1979)

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Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.



The Silence of the Lambs(1991)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.



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.



Gone Baby Gone(2007)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.



Erin Brockovich(2000)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.




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