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Chris Messina has 27 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
Junkyard Dog
2023
Drama · Romance
Air
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Prime Video · Included
Sharp Objects
2018 · Mini · Actor
Top 22%Max · Included
The Boogeyman
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Hulu · Included
Julie & Julia
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 37%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
Juror #2
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Max · Included
Made of Honor
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 46%Netflix · Included
as Victor Zsasz
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.
Dir. Cathy Yan · With Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
Dir. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton · With Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Chris Messina
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.
Dir. Ben Affleck · With Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck
Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
Dir. Marti Noxon · With Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.
Dir. Rob Savage · With Sophie Thatcher, Vivien Lyra Blair, Chris Messina
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Dir. Nora Ephron · With Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
Dir. John Erick Dowdle · With Chris Messina, Bojana Novaković, Jenny O'Hara
While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.
Dir. Paul Weiland · With Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd
An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
Dir. Lee Kirk · With Jenna Fischer, Chris Messina, Topher Grace
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?
Dir. Lee Toland Krieger · With Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Ari Graynor
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to "The Crucible".
Dir. Quinn Shephard · With Quinn Shephard, Nadia Alexander, Trieste Kelly Dunn
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
Dir. J Blakeson · With Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González
The lives of a realtor, a plumber and a former tennis star unexpectedly collide, exposing America’s obsession with true crime, murder and the slow-close toilet seat.
Dir. Craig Rosenberg · With Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, Tom Bateman
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
Dir. Yuval Adler · With Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Dir. Phyllis Nagy · With Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina
Roger Greenberg, a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother. He's stranded there—since he doesn't drive—until his brother's assistant, Florence, comes to his rescue. She's as much a lost soul as he is, and the pair form a significant connection—giving Roger a much-needed reason to be happy.
Dir. Noah Baumbach · With Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
Dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite · With Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr.
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
Dir. Ben Affleck · With Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Dir. Alan Ball · With Summer Bishil, Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Dir. Drake Doremus · With Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Dir. Daniel Barnz · With Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick
A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.
Dir. Gia Coppola · With Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff
Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
Dir. Marilyn Agrelo · With Jessica Alba, Bailee Madison, J.K. Simmons
AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day. But there is more to Manglehorn than meets the eye: he’s an ex-con who, 40 years ago, gave up the woman of his dreams for a big ‘job’. After a dramatic effort to start over, Manglehorn faces a terrifying moment and is unmasked as a guy with a very, very dark past.
Dir. David Gordon Green · With Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Harmony Korine
Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
Dir. Amy Seimetz · With Kate Lyn Sheil, Jane Adams, Kentucker Audley
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