| 100% | THEFRENCHCONNECTION | 19 | 1971 Oscar-winning film whose title is hinted at nine times in this grid |
| 41% | IMITATIONOFLIFE | 15 | 1934 Oscar-nominated film whose title hints at the wordplay in three other long answers |
| 40% | THESIXTHSENSE | 13 | 1999 film whose title is a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 39% | SNAKESONAPLANE | 14 | Cult classic whose title is depicted four times in this puzzle |
| 38% | JAMESMICHENER | 13 | Author of the novels whose titles are the starts of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | DEERXING | 8 | Road sign that hints at what can be found three times in this puzzle's grid |
| 33% | ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 15 | Author of the book whose title is circled in the grid |
| 33% | YEAH | 4 | Usher song whose title is said eighty times in its lyrics |
| 32% | BENDOREGON | 10 | Western city hinted at seven times in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 32% | BAD | 3 | Michael Jackson hit whose title is heard 88 times in the song |
| 32% | THEWICKERMAN | 12 | 1973 horror film whose title figure is burned in a pagan ritual |
| 32% | SPLITSECOND | 11 | Instant … hinted at four times in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 32% | LEIGH | 5 | Co-star of the film whose title is hidden sequentially in 20-, 34-, 41- and 52-Across |
| 32% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Pixar film whose title suggests how to read five answers in this puzzle |
| 32% | EIFFELTOWER | 11 | Landmark inaugurated 3/31/1889 whose shape is suggested by nine squares in this puzzle's completed grid |
| 31% | BROMANTICCOMEDY | 15 | Modern-day genre for the 1952 film whose title is suggested by a word ladder starting at 1-Across |
| 31% | AMELIE | 6 | French film whose title character is a waitress at Paris’s Café des Deux Moulins |
| 31% | YEAH | 4 | 2004 Usher hit whose title is repeated more than seventy-five times in the song |
| 31% | INNERCITIES | 11 | Urban areas (as hinted at by the circled letters in this puzzle's grid) |
| 31% | WEAPON | 6 | The "what" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant |
| 31% | ROOM | 4 | The "where" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant |
| 31% | SUSPECT | 7 | The "who" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant |
| 30% | ALLABOUTEVE | 11 | 1950 Bette Davis film hinting at something found 15 times in this puzzle |
| 30% | CIRCLEOFLIFE | 12 | Song that opens and closes 23-Down and whose title is literally described in this puzzle's center |
| 30% | DOUBLESTUFOREOS | 15 | Extra-thick Nabisco treats, hinted at four times in this puzzle |
| 30% | EMMA | 4 | 1815 classic whose title character is played by Anya Taylor-Joy in a 2020 film |
| 30% | ALIENS | 6 | One of the eggs used in this 1986 film is now exhibited at the Smithsonian |
| 29% | UTURN | 5 | Often-forbidden maneuver ... as hinted at four times in this puzzle |
| 29% | LAND | 4 | "Promised ___," 1975 album by Elvis Presley whose title track was featured in the film "Men in Black" |
| 29% | DRWHO | 5 | BBC classic whose title role will be played by a woman for the first time in 2017 |