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Emile Hirsch has 41 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Into the Wild.
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Hulu · Included

The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Paramount+ · Included

Milk
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Prime Video · Included

Freaks
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Peacock · Included

Twice Born
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Starz · Included

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
2021 · Movie · Voice
Top 28%Netflix · Included

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Dir. Sean Penn · With Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
Dir. André Øvredal · With Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, Ophelia Lovibond

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.
Dir. Gus Van Sant · With Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin

Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.
Dir. Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein · With Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park

Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Dir. Sergio Castellitto · With Penélope Cruz, Emile Hirsch, Adnan Hasković

Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate his goals.
Dir. Luke Greenfield · With Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant

The Guardians of Arcadia reunite to battle the nefarious Arcane Order, who've reawakened the primordial Titans.
Dir. Johane Matte, Francisco Ruiz Velasco, Andrew L. Schmidt · With Emile Hirsch, Lexi Medrano, Charlie Saxton

It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.
Dir. Bille August · With Liu Yifei, Emile Hirsch, Fangcong Li

Merlin’s apprentice joins Arcadia’s heroes on a time-bending adventure in Camelot, where conflict is brewing between the human, troll and magical worlds.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Lena Headey, Alfred Molina, Colin O'Donoghue

The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.
Dir. Catherine Hardwicke · With John Robinson, Emile Hirsch, Rebecca De Mornay

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Dir. Michael Hoffman · With Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Jesse Eisenberg

A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.
Dir. Peter Care · With Kieran Culkin, Emile Hirsch, Jena Malone

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.
Dir. Dan Harris · With Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels
When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.
Dir. Ivan Kavanagh · With Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch, Luke David Blumm

Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and hold him hostage.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Emile Hirsch, Bruce Willis, Amanda Seyfried

Chronicling the troubled existence of Duncan Mudge, a 14-year-old misfit who—while vying for the attention of his vacant father—struggles to fill the void brought on by his mother's sudden death.
Dir. Michael Burke · With Emile Hirsch, Tom Guiry, Richard Jenkins
Desperate for a role as a demonologist, struggling actor Clayton contacts Eliza, an expert in devil lore, to help him prepare. As he spends the weekend at her home, Eliza forces Clayton to confront his troubling past, perform dark rituals, and sacrifice a goat. Does she want to help Clayton, seduce him—or destroy him?
Dir. Chris von Hoffmann · With Timothy Granaderos, Radha Mitchell, Emile Hirsch

Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Dir. David Gordon Green · With Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault

Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.
Dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski · With Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman

A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.
Dir. William Friedkin · With Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple

Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber, sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
With Holliday Grainger, Emile Hirsch, Sarah Hyland
A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives.
Dir. Mukunda Michael Dewil · With Ryan Phillippe, Emile Hirsch, Mena Suvari

A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.
Dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini · With Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Emily Mortimer
After a pawn shop robbery goes askew, two criminals take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to let the heat die down, but find something much more menacing.
Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura · With Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Gigi Zumbado

Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel that kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined.
Dir. George Gallo · With Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones

A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved... Four interconnected stories reveal life unfolding through four emotional pillars — joy, passion, grief, and love.
Dir. Jieho Lee · With Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Kevin Bacon

When a globe-trotting, workaholic father trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she’s disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend, still nursing a broken heart, to help him find her over the course of one increasingly crazy night.
Dir. Gavin Wiesen · With J.K. Simmons, Lio Tipton, Emile Hirsch
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