Top rated slightly underwhelming movies with a contemporary issue

Check out today’s highest ranked slightly underwhelming movies with a contemporary issue! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best slightly underwhelming movies with a contemporary issue, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Luce (2019)

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

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2019-08-02 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    pronounced actor
  2. Ranked #1 for
    layered
  3. Ranked #1 for
    multifaceted plot

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2 Call Jane (2022)

A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.

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2022-10-27 | Drama / History

Cast

Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver

Rating

rating icon 6.55
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    acting of welcoming presence
  2. Ranked #1 for
    flashy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    moral issue

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3 Queen & Slim (2019)

While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results.

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2019-11-27 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    defensive
  2. Ranked #1 for
    embattled character
  3. Ranked #4 for
    hurried

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4 The Novice (2021)

A college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.

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2021-12-17 | Drama

Cast

Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    athletic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    less ambitious
  3. Ranked #1 for
    unmatched

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5 Swallow (2020)

Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.

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2020-01-15 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell

Rating

rating icon 6.628
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    magnetizing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for psychological study
  3. Ranked #1 for
    mood piece

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6 Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)

In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

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2020-09-30 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Edward Chen, Jing-Hua Tseng

Rating

rating icon 7.882
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tragic ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    engraving
  3. Ranked #1 for
    most accomplished

Trailer

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7 Wendell & Wild (2022)

Two demon brothers enlist the aid of Kat Elliot — a tough teen with a load of guilt — to summon them to the Land of the Living. But what Kat demands in return leads to a brilliantly bizarre and comedic adventure like no other.

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2022-10-21 | Animation / Comedy

Cast

Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele

Rating

rating icon 6.71
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    thematically rich
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cohesively whole
  3. Ranked #1 for
    spurting

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8 Soul (2020)

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

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2020-12-25 | Animation / Family

Cast

Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey

Rating

rating icon 8.126
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    capturing imagination
  2. Ranked #1 for
    profound
  3. Ranked #1 for
    existential theme

Trailer

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9 Joyland (2022)

As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.

Info

2022-11-18 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    social issue
  2. Ranked #1 for
    casual
  3. Ranked #2 for
    topical issue

Trailer

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10 Better Days (2019)

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

Info

2019-10-25 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Zhou Dongyu, Jackson Yee

Rating

rating icon 8.135
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    protector
  2. Ranked #4 for
    severe editing
  3. Ranked #5 for
    hard-nosed

Trailer

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