Top rated movies with phenomenal acting that have surpassing expectations

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with phenomenal acting and surpassing expectations! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with phenomenal acting and surpassing expectations, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Cruella (2021)

In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.

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2021-05-26 | Comedy / Crime

Cast

Emma Stone, Emma Thompson

Rating

rating icon 8.027
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fabulous
  2. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely fantastic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    despicable villain

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2 Joker (2019)

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

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2019-10-01 | Crime / Thriller

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro

Rating

rating icon 8.163
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  2. Ranked #1 for
    mentally unstable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    evil genius

Trailer

Joker trailer
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3 Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

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.

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2022-05-24 | Action / Drama

Cast

Tom Cruise, Miles Teller

Rating

rating icon 8.224
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    naff
  2. Ranked #2 for
    perfect casting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    aerial photography

Trailer

Top Gun: Maverick trailer
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4 Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

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2021-12-15 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Tom Holland, Zendaya

Rating

rating icon 7.974
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    cheering
  2. Ranked #1 for
    lofty expectations
  3. Ranked #2 for
    question authority

Trailer

Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer
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5 Thirteen Lives (2022)

Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.

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2022-07-18 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell

Rating

rating icon 7.903
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    on tenterhooks
  2. Ranked #2 for
    white-knuckled
  3. Ranked #2 for
    gripping start

Trailer

Thirteen Lives trailer
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6 Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)

Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!

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2020-10-16 | Action / Animation

Cast

Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kito

Rating

rating icon 8.232
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely incredible
  2. Ranked #1 for
    truly breathtaking
  3. Ranked #1 for
    beyond limits

Trailer

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train trailer
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7 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

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2021-09-01 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Simu Liu, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Rating

rating icon 7.563
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    perfect foil character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    tad annoying
  3. Ranked #2 for
    based on movieverse

Trailer

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer
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8 Aladdin (2019)

A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.

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2019-05-22 | Adventure / Fantasy

Cast

Will Smith, Mena Massoud

Rating

rating icon 7.107
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    whole new dimension
  2. Ranked #3 for
    pure magic
  3. Ranked #4 for
    with the best music

Trailer

Aladdin trailer
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9 The Batman (2022)

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.

Info

2022-03-01 | Crime / Mystery

Cast

Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz

Rating

rating icon 7.683
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brooding
  2. Ranked #1 for
    dark and gritty
  3. Ranked #2 for
    darkest

Trailer

The Batman trailer
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10 Old Henry (2021)

A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.

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2021-10-01 | Action / Western

Cast

Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze

Rating

rating icon 7.24
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    stellar
  2. Ranked #1 for
    big revealing ending
  3. Ranked #1 for
    hit out of park

Trailer

Old Henry trailer
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