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Charles McKeown has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Brazil.
1989
Adventure · Fantasy
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Dir. Terry Gilliam · With Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Dir. Terry Gilliam · With John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.
Dir. Jake Scott · With Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Liv Tyler
After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil.
Dir. Terry Gilliam · With Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
Dir. John Landis · With Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?
Dir. Liliana Cavani · With John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone
Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
Dir. Terry Jones · With Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt
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