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2010 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Independent Films

2010 National Board of Review – Top Independent Films Winner and Nominees

2010 National Board of Review - Top Independent Films WinnerAnimal KingdomA seventeen year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.AmazonBuriedPaul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.AmazonFish TankEverything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.AmazonGreenbergA man from Los Angeles, who moved to New York years ago, returns to L.A. to figure out his life while he house-sits for his brother. He soon sparks with his brother's assistant.AmazonLet Me InA bullied young boy befriends a young female vam...

18Apr

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2009 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Independent Films

2009 National Board of Review – Top Independent Films Winner and Nominees

2009 National Board of Review - Top Independent Films WinnerAmreekaA drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.AmazonDistrict 9Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.AmazonGoodbye SoloTwo men form an unlikely friendship that will change both of their lives forever.AmazonHumpdayTwo guys take their bromance to another level when they participate in an art film project.AmazonIn the LoopA political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries.AmazonJuliaA woman tries to extort money, using a y...

18Apr

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2008 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Independent Films

2008 National Board of Review – Top Independent Films Winner and Nominees

2008 National Board of Review - Top Independent Films WinnerFrozen RiverA mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smugling?AmazonHallam FoeHallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.AmazonIn BrugesGuilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.AmazonIn Search of a Midnight KissBroke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants t...

18Apr

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2007 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Independent Films

2007 National Board of Review – Top Independent Films Winner and Nominees

2007 National Board of Review - Top Independent Films WinnerA Mighty HeartMariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.AmazonAway from HerA man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.AmazonGreat World of SoundWhen a man answers an advertisement to train as a record producer, he's excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered musicians, only to discover his new job isn't all it's cracked up to be.AmazonHoneydripper1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyro...

18Apr

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2006 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Independent Films

2006 National Board of Review – Top Independent Films Winner and Nominees

2006 National Board of Review - Top Independent Films Winner10 Items or LessAn actor (Freeman) prepping for an upcoming role meets a quirky grocery clerk (Vega), and the pair hit the road to show one another their respective worlds.AmazonA Guide to Recognizing Your SaintsThe movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs, or in prison. He comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.AmazonAkeelah and the BeeA young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee.AmazonBobbyThe story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and ...

18Apr

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2019 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2019 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2019 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films Winner1917April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.AmazonDolemite Is My NameEddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.AmazonFord v FerrariAmerican car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.AmazonJojo RabbitA young boy in ...

18Apr

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2018 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2018 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2018 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Quiet PlaceIn a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.AmazonA Star Is BornA musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.AmazonBlack PantherT'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.AmazonCan You Ever Forgive Me?When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.AmazonEighth GradeAn introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.AmazonFirst ReformedA mi...

18Apr

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2017 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2017 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2017 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBaby DriverAfter being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.AmazonCall Me by Your NameIn 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.AmazonDownsizingA social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.AmazonDunkirkAllied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.AmazonGet OutA young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering u...

18Apr

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2016 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2016 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2016 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerArrivalA linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.AmazonHacksaw RidgeWorld War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.AmazonHail, Caesar!A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.AmazonHell or High WaterA divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.AmazonHidden FiguresThe story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years...

18Apr

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2015 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2015 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2015 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBridge of SpiesDuring 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.AmazonCreedThe former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.AmazonInside OutAfter young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.AmazonRoomHeld captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the b...