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Brian Dennehy has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by First Blood.
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The Ultimate Gift
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Prime Video · Included

Ratatouille
2007 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Disney+ · Included

Gladiator
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Never Cry Wolf
1983 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Silverado
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Tubi · Free w/ ads

F/X
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%MGM+ · Included

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Dir. Ted Kotcheff · With Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy

When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to the reading of the will. But instead of a sizable inheritance, Jason receives a test, a series of tasks he must complete before he can get any money.
Dir. Michael O. Sajbel · With Drew Fuller, Abigail Breslin, James Garner

Remy, a rat, possesses a palate far more refined than that of his fellow comrades. He dreams of becoming a chef, one who creates rather than scavenges. When fate deposits him in the sewers beneath one of Paris’s most famous restaurants, he finds himself ideally placed to fulfill his dream. Forming an unusual alliance with a hapless young kitchen worker, Remy begins a daring culinary double life. As Remy pursues his vision, he must navigate the suspicions of the calculating Head Chef Skinner, the disapproval of Remy’s own colony, and the foreboding presence of renowned food critic Anton Ego, who strikes fear in the hearts of chefs all throughout France.
Dir. Brad Bird · With Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano

When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe, were watched live on television by millions of viewers. But what was more shocking was that the cause of the disaster might never be uncovered. The Challenger is the story of how Richard Feynman, one of America's most famous scientists, helped to discover the cause of a tragedy that stunned America.
Dir. James Hawes · With William Hurt, Bruce Greenwood, Joanne Whalley

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight, he's noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing — where punches can kill.
Dir. Rowdy Herrington · With James Marshall, T.E. Russell, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
Dir. Paul Haggis · With Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Ty Simpkins

A scientific researcher, sent on a government study: The Lupus Project, must investigate the possible "menace" of wolves in the north. To do so, he must survive in the wilderness for six months on his own. In the course of these events, he learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the wolf species.
Dir. Carroll Ballard · With Charles Martin Smith, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah

To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
Dir. Peter Segal · With Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy

Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who their real friends are.
Dir. Lawrence Kasdan · With Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover

A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
Dir. Robert Mandel · With Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Steve Guttenberg, Tahnee Welch, Brian Dennehy

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.
Dir. Alan J. Pakula · With Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.
Dir. Michael Apted · With William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy

F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goes well until some unknown man kills both the killer and Mike. Mike's boss, Silak says it was the killer who killed Mike but Rollie knows it wasn't. Obviously, Silak is involved with Mike's death, so he calls on Leo McCarthy, the cop from the last movie, who is now a P.I., for help and they discover it's not just Silak they have to worry about.
Dir. Richard Franklin · With Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin

Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.
Dir. Baz Luhrmann · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Jesse Bradford
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
Dir. Colin Higgins · With Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith

On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Dir. Jean-François Richet · With Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne

In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him
Dir. Barry Alexander Brown · With Lucas Till, Julia Ormond, Brian Dennehy

District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah

Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
Dir. John Flynn · With James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant

A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
Dir. Bobby Moresco · With James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi, Brad Renfro

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
Dir. David Frankel · With Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Bo Derek
Local boy Ryan Dunne, now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish, the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer on the Cape. Ryan and Tenley fall in love, much to the chagrin of their families, while Ryan clings to one last hope of being discovered and signed to a pro baseball contract.
Dir. Michael Tollin · With Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, Fred Ward
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin

Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
Dir. Jon Avnet · With Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent
A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.
Dir. Christopher Reeve, Colin Brady, Dan St. Pierre · With Jake T. Austin, Rob Reiner, William H. Macy

At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
Dir. Michael Mayer · With Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll
Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman