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David Ayer has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Training Day.
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Training Day
2001 · Movie · Writer
Top 2%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Fury
2014 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 4%Hulu · Included

The Beekeeper
2024 · Movie · Director
Top 5%Prime Video · Included

End of Watch
2012 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 12%Prime Video · Included

A Working Man
2025 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 26%Prime Video · Included

Street Kings
2008 · Movie · Director
Top 27%Starz · Included

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Dir. David Ayer · With Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman

One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
Dir. David Ayer · With Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson

Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.
Dir. Rob Cohen · With Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez

Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
Dir. David Ayer · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Natalie Martinez

Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
Dir. David Ayer · With Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, Merab Ninidze

Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.
Dir. David Ayer · With Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Chris Evans

Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.
Dir. Clark Johnson · With Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
Dir. Jonathan Mostow · With Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel

Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.
Dir. David Ayer · With Christian Bale, Freddy Rodríguez, Eva Longoria

In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.
Dir. David Ayer · With Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Lucy Fry

Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Dir. Ron Shelton · With Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele

David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm’s way.
Dir. David Ayer · With Bobby Soto, Cinthya Carmona, George López

From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
Dir. David Ayer · With Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie

John 'Breacher' Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
Dir. David Ayer · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams