A Separation(2011)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.



Selma(2014)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.



Bridge of Spies(2015)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.



Michael Clayton(2007)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.



Frost/Nixon(2008)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.



3:10 to Yuma(2007)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.



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.



Intolerable Cruelty(2003)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A beautiful gold digger matches wits with a shrewd Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who is increasingly attracted to her.



The Last Duel(2021)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 79

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.



Battle of the Sexes(2017)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 83

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.



Fracture(2007)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An attorney, intent on climbing the career ladder toward success, finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he is trying to prosecute.



Win Win(2011)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.



Loving(2016)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 86

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.



The Lincoln Lawyer(2011)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A lawyer defending a wealthy man begins to believe his client is guilty of more than just one crime.



Dark Waters(2019)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.



Role Models(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Wild behavior forces a pair of energy drink reps to enroll in a Big Brother program.



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.



Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.



Pieces of a Woman(2020)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.



Secretary(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.




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