A Man Called Otto (2022)
Tom Hanks plays a grumpy, old guy whose wife died.
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Shine (1996)
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 -- imdb.
The Whale (2022)
Brendan Fraser plays the role of a 600-pound gay man estranged from his daughter.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Calibrated in TvF at 385, despite the fast-paced action and violence throughout. How do we account for 385 as the movie's essence?
Mean Girls (2004)
The plot centers on a naïve teenage girl navigating her way through the social hierarchy of a modern American high school after years of her parents homeschooling her while conducting research in Africa --wikipedia
Cocaine Bear (2023)
Director Elizabeth Banks' horror-comedy about a bear that ingests cocaine dropped from a drug-smuggler's plane. Starring Keri Russell and Ray Liotta.
Fatman (2020)
TvF mentions anti-Christmas spirit
movies which collectively calibrate at 170. This one, with Mel Gibson as a rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus, is lower than average.
Rear Window (1954)
mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
The Muppets is at 310 (TvF), and Dickens' Christmas Carol is at 499 (TvF). Combine them, and you get...
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Tom Kenny, Ron Perlman. Stop-motion animated musical fantasy film.
Troll (2022)
Norwegian film on Netflix. Deep in the Dovre mountain, something gigantic wakes up after a thousand years in captivity. The creature destroys everything in its path and quickly approaches Oslo --imdb.com
Old (2021)
written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan... The film was a box office success, grossing $90 million worldwide against an $18 million budget while receiving polarized reviews from critics --wikipedia
Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
Enola's and Sherlock's cases converge with the "story of the British matchstick girls who in 1888 took strike action against the dominating, patriarchal world of matchstick making"
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
projected to earn $175 million in North America on its opening weekend --wikipedia
Black Adam (2022)
Action star Dwayne Johnson enters the superhero genre in a formulaic and predictable tale of invincible, mythological powers activated in the modern world.