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Aline Brosh McKenna has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Cruella.
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In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
Dir. Craig Gillespie · With Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.
Dir. David Frankel · With Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt

Andy Sachs returns to Runway as Miranda Priestly navigates a new media landscape and Runway's position within. The duo reconnect with former assistant Emily Charlton, now the head of a luxury brand that possesses funding which could ensure Runway's survival.
Dir. David Frankel · With Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
Dir. Anne Fletcher · With Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Åkerman

Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.
Dir. Will Gluck · With Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne

When best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swap homes for a week, they get a peek into each other's lives that could open the door to love.
Dir. Aline Brosh McKenna · With Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher, Zoë Chao

Rebecca Bunch is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything - her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan - in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, California.
Dir. Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna · With Rachel Bloom, Donna Lynne Champlin, Vincent Rodriguez III

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
Dir. Peter Howitt · With Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Michael Sheen

A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.
Dir. Roger Michell · With Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Amy.
Dir. Damon Santostefano · With Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott

As an employee at a Boston-based financial firm, Kate Reddy struggles daily to balance the demands of her high-powered career with the needs of her husband, Richard, and their two children. When she gets an account that requires frequent trips to New York and her husband gets a new job, Kate finds herself spread even thinner. Complicating Kate's life even more is her new business associate Jack Abelhammer, who throws temptation into the mix.
Dir. Douglas McGrath · With Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear
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