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Coming-of-Age Picks

A Brighter Summer Day leads at 88, ahead of The Lion King (87) and Boyhood (86). 60 picks made the cut, ordered from highest Balasaur Score to lowest. The typical pick here scores 81, well above the catalog median of 66. The newest addition is The Boy and the Heron, released in July 2023. The score blends IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and TMDB ratings into one 0 to 100 number.

Scores run 88 down to 77. 24 of the 60 are from the 2010s.

60 titlesUpdated 2026-08-23Ranked by Balasaur Score

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