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Clarke Peters has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Wire.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

The Wire
2002 · Series · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

The Best of Me
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Paramount+ · Included

Harriet
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Netflix · Included

Mona Lisa
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Max · Included

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%Hulu · Included

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Dir. Martin McDonagh · With Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
Dir. David Simon · With Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn

A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.
Dir. David Frankel · With Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Dir. Michael Hoffman · With Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, Luke Bracey

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Dir. Kasi Lemmons · With Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Janelle Monáe
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Robbie Coltrane

On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a rash of worker suicides.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen

The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
Dir. Kasi Lemmons · With Naomi Ackie, Ashton Sanders, Stanley Tucci

A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.
Dir. David Guy Levy · With Charlie Hofheimer, Aleksa Palladino, Robin Lord Taylor

Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.
Dir. David Simon, Eric Overmyer · With Khandi Alexander, Rob Brown, Chris Coy

In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.
Dir. Tom Bidwell · With Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Royce Pierreson, McKell David

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters

An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.
Dir. Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman · With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Annelle Olaleye

Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of despair until finally they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.
Dir. Brenda Chapman · With Keira Chansa, Jordan A. Nash, Angelina Jolie

A desperate father, alongside a tenacious cop, battles his own demons on the streets of 1980s New York as he searches for his missing nine-year-old son.
Dir. Abi Morgan · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III

Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is trying to kill Brian.
Dir. Matt Aselton · With Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Paul Dano

San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist Eldon Chance reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.
Dir. Kem Nunn, Alexandra Cunningham · With Hugh Laurie, Ethan Suplee, Greta Lee

A unique horror film told from the first-person perspective of Grace - a naive, virginal college freshman trying to deal with campus culture and her outgoing roommate as an evil entity takes over her body and unleashes chaos.
Dir. Jeff Chan · With Alexia Fast, Joel David Moore, Lin Shaye
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