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Cary Joji Fukunaga has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including It.
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Seashore
2015
Drama · Romance

Departure
2016
Drama · Romance

The Third One
2014
Drama · Romance

The Cakemaker
2017
Drama

End of the Century
2019
Drama · Romance

Goodbye First Love
2011
Drama · Romance

Still the Water
2014
Drama · Romance

Lady Chatterley
2006
Drama · Romance
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Dir. Andy Muschietti · With Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis

Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye

Sayra, a Native Honduran teenager, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Indigenous Mexican and Mestizo-Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same USA-bound train.
Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Paulina Gaitán, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell

Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.
Dir. Patrick Somerville, Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Sonoya Mizuno

New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning

Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy’s wedding.
Dir. So Yong Kim · With Riley Keough, Jena Malone, Jessie Ok Gray