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10 Best Movies Like Critical Thinking

If you loved Critical Thinking, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Bully

Bully

2001★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Critical Thinking for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years....

#2
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Critical Thinking for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#3
Gotti

Gotti

1996★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Critical Thinking for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in Am...

#4
Querelle

Querelle

1982★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Critical Thinking for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discove...

#5
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Critical Thinking for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#6
The Devil's Double

The Devil's Double

2011★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Critical Thinking for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son....

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