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Courtney B. Vance has 29 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Hunt for Red October.
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12 Angry Men
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Prime Video · Included

Lilo & Stitch
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Disney+ · Included

Let It Shine
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Disney+ · Included

The Tuskegee Airmen
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Max · Included

Final Destination 5
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Max · Included

Dangerous Minds
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 37%Prime Video · Included

as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!
Dir. John McTiernan · With Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn

During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.
Dir. William Friedkin · With Courtney B. Vance, Ossie Davis, George C. Scott

The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.
Dir. Dean Fleischer Camp · With Maia Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, Chris Sanders

A teenage rapper must use his musical talent to help a friend and win the girl of his dreams while overcoming self-doubt and the expectations of his strict religious parents.
Dir. Paul Hoen · With Tyler James Williams, Coco Jones, Trevor Jackson

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.
Dir. Robert Markowitz · With Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to survive, and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda.
Dir. Steven Quale · With Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.
Dir. John N. Smith · With Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance

When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dir. Rod Lurie · With Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett

An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.
Dir. Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost · With Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback

Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland

A group of idealistic but frustrated liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering right-wing pundits for their political beliefs.
Dir. Stacy Title · With Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish

G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
Dir. Todd Graff · With Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer

Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?
Dir. Larry Ferguson · With Charlie Sheen, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Madsen

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler
A criminal mastermind recruits a group of young bank employees to steal 80 million dollars in one of the largest bank heist in US history.
Dir. Menhaj Huda · With Courtney B. Vance, Keesha Sharp, Keith David

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Dir. Xavier Gens · With Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and escapes. He soon runs into his friend, Jim, a slave fleeing his master. Together, the pair embarks on a raft journey down the Mississippi River, staying ahead of pursuers who blame the slave for Huck's alleged murder.
Dir. Stephen Sommers · With Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Robbie Coltrane

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
Dir. John Irvin · With Dylan McDermott, Steven Weber, Tim Quill

19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.
Dir. Peter Hedges · With Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B. Vance

A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.
Dir. Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, Joe Baken · With Niecy Nash, Courtney B. Vance, Nicholas Alexander Chavez

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Dir. George C. Wolfe · With Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry

The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
Dir. Alan Taylor · With Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of his wife, John ditches his career and teams with unconventional specialist, Dr. Robert Stonehill to found a bio-tech company and develop a cure in time to save the lives of his children. As Dr. Stonehill works tirelessly to prove the theories that made him the black sheep of the medical community, a powerful bond is forged between the two unlikely allies.
Dir. Tom Vaughan · With Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell

Elijah must balance his dream of becoming a master sommelier with his father's expectations that he carry on the family's Memphis BBQ joint.
Dir. Prentice Penny · With Mamoudou Athie, Courtney B. Vance, Niecy Nash
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Biggs prays to God for help – which arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.
Dir. Penny Marshall · With Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance

A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.
Dir. Jim Gillespie · With Sylvester Stallone, Polly Walker, Charles S. Dutton

When Carol Vanstone, CEO of the technology company Zenotek, expresses her intention to close the Chicago branch, run by her brother Clay, he and his co-workers organize a Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and save their jobs. But the party gets out of control…
Dir. Will Speck, Josh Gordon · With Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, T.J. Miller

When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.
Dir. David S. Goyer, Brannon Braga · With Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, Courtney B. Vance

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Dir. Alex Kurtzman · With Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella