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Chris Brancato has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Narcos.
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A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Dir. Chris Brancato, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard · With Pedro Pascal, Matias Varela, Damián Alcázar

Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
Dir. Chris Brancato, Paul Eckstein · With Forest Whitaker, Erik LaRay Harvey, Ilfenesh Hadera

See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Dir. Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro · With Scoot McNairy, José María Yázpik, Alejandro Edda
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Dir. Bill Duke · With Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams

Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
Dir. Peter Medak · With Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger
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