Critically Acclaimed Movies, a list by Riz

8.7

/370104/

84

/12286/

82

/3364/

4.5

/1356183/

93

/412/

Audience

95

/6264/

79

/62/

3.5

age 13+

Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

84

7.9

/248320/

76

/7644/

78

/3186/

4.1

/1409753/

92

/367/

Audience

79

/1679/

88

/62/

4.0

age 17+

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a debauched lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

87

8.3

/725529/

81

/19710/

81

/7790/

4.2

/2093017/

93

/504/

Audience

91

/14724/

90

/69/

4.0

age 15+

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

81

8.0

/853833/

79

/34291/

77

/11310/

3.9

/2102561/

83

/514/

Audience

90

/7039/

74

/68/

3.5

age 13+

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

79

7.4

/242414/

73

/4322/

71

/3458/

3.8

/290198/

85

/138/

Audience

80

/132041/

76

/35/

4.0

age 17+

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

83

7.7

/119378/

75

/4104/

76

/1846/

4.2

/819842/

96

/276/

Audience

90

/219/

86

/44/

3.5

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

10

82

8.7

/2098909/

85

/70800/

84

/34060/

4.3

/2333714/

73

/378/

Audience

86

/182726/

74

/46/

3.5

age 12+

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

75

7.0

/96281/

71

/3912/

73

/1398/

3.8

/805235/

93

/203/

Audience

83

/633/

76

/39/

2.5

age 17+

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

79

7.6

/847472/

73

/24564/

74

/12871/

3.8

/1716366/

86

/580/

Audience

70

/6406/

84

/62/

4.0

age 17+

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

78

6.8

/535117/

70

/18296/

71

/8084/

3.9

/2879153/

88

/497/

Audience

83

/18043/

80

/67/

3.5

age 11+

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

91

9.3

/2887903/

91

/41444/

87

/25841/

4.5

/1250677/

89

/140/

Audience

98

/890157/

82

/21/

4.0

age 15+

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

78

7.7

/55602/

75

/2407/

75

/449/

4.1

/454777/

89

/261/

Audience

94

/1574/

73

/55/

2.5

age 15+

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

91

8.9

/2219470/

86

/42389/

84

/26827/

4.3

/2061836/

92

/181/

Audience

96

/1130802/

95

/27/

4.0

age 18+

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

83

7.6

/238151/

73

/7704/

74

/2784/

4.1

/797377/

93

/462/

Audience

84

/3035/

89

/63/

4.0

age 16+

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

81

7.8

/449948/

79

/19579/

74

/8372/

3.8

/491069/

95

/79/

Audience

88

/1041416/

71

/8/

3.5

age 11+

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.

84

7.9

/137378/

77

/4785/

77

/1151/

4.2

/710480/

97

/354/

Audience

92

/1214/

82

/61/

3.5

age 15+

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

80

7.9

/1280071/

78

/29869/

79

/24389/

3.8

/1325109/

88

/255/

Audience

69

/35797635/

75

/35/

4.0

age 13+

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

10

90

9.0

/2869925/

88

/73399/

85

/31692/

4.5

/2157434/

94

/347/

Audience

94

/1831566/

84

/39/

4.0

age 15+

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

78

7.5

/75158/

75

/3128/

73

/735/

3.7

/364461/

93

/280/

Audience

96

/1295/

81

/54/

2.5

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

87

8.2

/696215/

82

/24263/

82

/8527/

4.0

/1167721/

96

/476/

Audience

99

/29699/

78

/63/

4.0

age 12+

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

10

82

8.7

/2052516/

87

/60457/

82

/24728/

4.2

/1449020/

83

/207/

Audience

85

/33324202/

73

/35/

3.0

age 15+

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

75

7.8

/166220/

80

/4732/

75

/1963/

3.8

/89776/

73

/48/

Audience

94

/195871/

50

/22/

age 16+

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

79

7.6

/855850/

80

/45714/

79

/26416/

3.8

/1259134/

81

/201/

Audience

82

/1160027/

65

/37/

4.0

age 7+

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

88

8.3

/1077749/

82

/20979/

80

/14273/

4.2

/1486704/

92

/258/

Audience

94

/573019/

89

/41/

4.0

age 16+

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

10

86

8.8

/2550107/

86

/70377/

83

/35471/

4.2

/2058865/

87

/372/

Audience

91

/574212/

74

/42/

4.0

age 14+

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

79

7.5

/203039/

77

/6081/

75

/3734/

3.7

/136064/

84

/63/

Audience

90

/377681/

71

/14/

3.5

age 17+

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven—watched over by a hypnotic crow—returns from the grave to exact revenge.

10

83

7.7

/589059/

77

/30211/

75

/12792/

4.0

/846897/

92

/289/

Audience

86

/74240/

78

/42/

4.0

age 17+

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

87

8.9

/2006584/

87

/51492/

84

/24073/

4.4

/1303844/

91

/235/

Audience

95

/1355751/

92

/34/

3.0

age 12+

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.

76

7.1

/142550/

71

/6069/

72

/2522/

3.6

/722128/

95

/293/

Audience

82

/1403/

76

/44/

3.0

age 16+

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

86

8.1

/1085907/

79

/44948/

75

/21589/

4.2

/1198542/

97

/439/

Audience

86

/130441/

90

/51/

4.0

age 16+

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

77

7.6

/522310/

76

/19599/

72

/11058/

3.8

/718340/

87

/193/

Audience

83

/586563/

74

/36/

3.0

age 6+

When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the "chosen one" and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transforming the unsleek slacker into a brave warrior won't be easy. It's up to Master Shifu and the Furious Five -- Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey -- to give it a try.

82

7.7

/246603/

76

/11159/

75

/3343/

3.7

/459454/

96

Audience

94

81

/66/

3.5

age 13+

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.

10

81

8.2

/1582671/

81

/48458/

80

/23166/

4.0

/1982838/

80

/288/

Audience

83

/182633/

75

/47/

3.5

age 18+

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

80

7.8

/786633/

76

/25613/

76

/9462/

4.0

/2158456/

85

/523/

Audience

87

/23910/

72

/68/

3.5

age 14+

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

76

7.7

/298286/

80

/12354/

75

/5440/

3.8

/317415/

77

/64/

Audience

91

/580278/

62

/13/

3.0

age 10+

A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.

10

77

8.5

/1619629/

85

/31827/

82

/17695/

4.1

/707187/

79

/258/

Audience

87

/34128168/

67

/46/

2.0

age 16+

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

81

7.5

/610571/

76

/39279/

74

/15136/

3.7

/1648016/

92

/397/

Audience

86

/4214/

86

/53/

3.5

age 17+

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

10

79

8.8

/2323080/

87

/48148/

84

/28188/

4.3

/2360366/

80

/185/

Audience

96

/1096497/

67

/36/

2.0

age 17+

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

82

8.0

/664857/

77

/31447/

75

/13031/

4.1

/1215839/

88

/443/

Audience

88

/580/

81

/54/

3.5

age 16+

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

91

8.5

/958868/

85

/33259/

85

/17440/

4.6

/2771042/

99

/482/

Audience

90

/7296/

97

/56/

4.0

age 16+

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

90

8.6

/368896/

86

/13593/

83

/6176/

4.5

/1741549/

95

/386/

Audience

94

/14578/

86

/60/

4.0

age 9+

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

10

82

8.6

/1406934/

86

/25976/

85

/16720/

4.2

/550857/

79

/136/

Audience

94

/815138/

61

/36/

3.5

age 16+

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

75

7.1

/402856/

71

/13327/

71

/6695/

3.8

/2030063/

83

/405/

Audience

63

/1156/

72

/54/

4.0

age 17+

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

86

7.9

/114289/

78

/3641/

78

/1243/

4.2

/876285/

95

/301/

Audience

84

/3819/

94

/52/

4.0

age 13+

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

10

85

8.4

/1583538/

82

/36050/

82

/21477/

4.3

/1696865/

89

/336/

Audience

88

/777733/

69

/36/

4.0

age 17+

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

92

9.0

/1450284/

88

/20464/

85

/15241/

4.5

/678482/

98

/137/

Audience

97

/413306/

95

/30/

4.0

age 15+

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

83

7.8

/532626/

79

/22081/

77

/6000/

4.3

/2291085/

93

/405/

Audience

86

/1947/

81

/55/

3.5

age 15+

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

10

83

8.3

/1067584/

83

/20510/

81

/11617/

4.3

/1054858/

97

/91/

Audience

94

/366024/

71

/28/