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Donald Sumpter has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Eastern Promises.
2009
Drama · Thriller
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.
Dir. Tom Stoppard · With Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Dir. Fernando Meirelles · With Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston
Brilliant physicist Albert Einstein, and English scientist Arthur Eddington form an unlikely friendship during World War I, which leads to the creation of the relativity theory.
Dir. Philip Martin · With Andy Serkis, David Tennant, Richard McCabe
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
Dir. Bharat Nalluri · With Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Dir. Kathryn Bigelow · With Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows
as Pythol (voice) · Voice
A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no answer from them. The squad investigates to find out what has happened there.
Dir. Martyn Pick · With Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Sean Pertwee
