Aaron Guzikowski’s Typical Vibe
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Aaron Guzikowski has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Prisoners.
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After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
Dir. Michael Noer · With Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Christopher Fairbank
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
Dir. Baltasar Kormákur · With Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster

After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.
Dir. Aaron Guzikowski · With Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, Winta McGrath