85MovieNerd ScoreWeaponsMovie2025When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.Overall84Story84Acting87Cinematography86Concept83Entertaining80Uniqueness75Family Friendly40
AntlersMovie2021A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, discover a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret that could have frightening consequences.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
The HuntMovie2020Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
The Last Full MeasureMovie2020The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
American WomanMovie2018A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
Grey LadyMovie2017A Boston police officer goes to Nantucket to investigate the murder of his partner, but he finds more than he bargained for.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
Rules Don't ApplyMovie2016It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
FronteraMovie2014After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s pregnant wife tries to come to his aid and lands in the hands of corrupt coyotes who hold her for ransom. Dissatisfied with the police department’s investigation, the former sheriff tries to uncover the truth about his wife’s death and discovers disturbing evidence that will destroy one family’s future, or tear another’s apart.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
SweetwaterMovie2013In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
The LifeguardMovie2013A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
VirginiaMovie2010A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman with whom the sheriff has engaged in a two-decade-long affair.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
Gone Baby GoneMovie2007When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
Winter PassingMovie2006Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
CarnivàleTV2003Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
PollockMovie2000In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
Female PerversionsMovie1996An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
The Dark HalfMovie1993Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
Field of DreamsMovie1989Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
72MovieNerd ScoreUncle BuckMovie1989Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and just about everyone else who crosses his path.Overall75Story76Acting70Cinematography68Concept60Entertaining73Uniqueness63Family Friendly—
Places in the HeartMovie1984In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
Streets of FireMovie1984Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen's manager hires Tom to rescue her. Along with a former soldier, they battle through dangerous cityscapes, determined to get Ellen back.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
The Day AfterMovie1983In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.Overall—Story—Acting—Cinematography—Concept—Entertaining—Uniqueness—Family Friendly—
