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Chris Mulkey has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Whiplash.
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Whiplash
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%MGM+ · Included

Any Day Now
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 42%Prime Video · Included

Message from the King
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 54%Netflix · Included

Above Suspicion
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 67%Prime Video · Included

Unknown
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 70%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 75%AMC+ · Included

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Dir. Damien Chazelle · With Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Dir. Paul Greengrass · With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman

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
In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nicknamed Radio near his practice field and is inspired to befriend him. Soon, Radio is Jones' loyal assistant, and he becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School. But things start to sour when Coach Jones begins taking guff from parents and fans who feel that his devotion to Radio is getting in the way of the team's quest for a championship.
Dir. Michael Tollin · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard

When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
Dir. Jack Sholder · With Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Ed O'Ross

In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
Dir. Travis Fine · With Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva

Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Dir. James DeMonaco · With Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder

On a relentless quest to avenge his sister's murder, a man from Cape Town infiltrates a sprawling network of lowlifes and elites in Los Angeles.
Dir. Fabrice Du Welz · With Chadwick Boseman, Luke Evans, Alfred Molina
When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan, Gil Renard. When Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard decides to stop at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory—not even murder.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them.
Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Johnny Knoxville

Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Dir. Simón Brand · With Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan

After a mass shooting at a police funeral, reclusive ex-cop Gannon finds himself unwittingly forced out of retirement when he realizes that the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force.
Dir. Henry Dunham · With James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty, Patrick Fischler
A graduate student, who is trying to finish the last of her research on a book project that she hopes will help her down-on-her-luck mother, brings friends to a house with a dark past, where they soon unwittingly summon an evil entity who makes the house part of its game…
Dir. Ben Demaree · With Mischa Barton, Tara Reid, Carly Schroeder
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
Dir. Michael Crichton · With Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons

Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.
Dir. Sebastián Lelio · With Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera
Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be a senseless attack.
Dir. John R. Leonetti · With Katie Cassidy, Elizabeth Henstridge, Adam Campbell
A group of military elite from the U.S., Russia, UK, China and France join forces to fight an elite underground terrorist network.
Dir. Mike Gunther · With Stephen Lang, Will Yun Lee, Chris Mulkey

The story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude. Compelled to do the right thing, they take the girls with them as they continue their perilous trek across the frontier, followed by a vicious gang of killers sent by the whorehouse madam who originally paid for the girls. Broken Trail weaves together two historical events: the British buying horses in the American West in the late 19th century and Chinese women being transported from the West Coast to the interior to serve as prostitutes.
With Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi
Ethan learns he carries the spirit of a warrior who battled dragons in 16th-century Korea -- and one day he'll find a tattooed girl carrying the spirit of that warrior's beloved. Years later, he meets Sarah and dragons soon descend on Los Angeles seeking out the two souls of the ancient lovers.
Dir. Shim Hyung-rae · With Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster