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Frances McDormand has 35 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Riding in Cars with Boys
2001
Drama · Comedy
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included
Fargo
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included
Primal Fear
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Paramount+ · Included
Mississippi Burning
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Prime Video · Included
Almost Famous
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Paramount+ · Included
Blood Simple
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Max · 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
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect.
Dir. Gregory Hoblit · With Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco
In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
Dir. Joel Coen · With Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Dir. Joel Coen · With John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Dir. Niki Caro · With Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Dir. Chloé Zhao · With Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
Dir. Peter Sohn · With Frances McDormand, Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.
Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · With George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt
as Lucinda Krementz
Prime Video · Rent
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton
A bored, retired rock star living in Ireland sets out to find his dead father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Sean Penn, Olwen Fouéré, Eve Hewson
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Dir. Joel Coen · With Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell
A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's approach to parenting; and other members of their community.
Dir. Jane Anderson · With Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Zoe Kazan
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
Dir. Ken Loach · With Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.
Dir. Bharat Nalluri · With Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Peter Cullen
Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected counterpart.
Dir. Jon Watts · With George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Austin Abrams
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Dir. Nancy Meyers · With Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.
Dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer · With Hatty Jones, Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
Dir. Gus Van Sant · With Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams.
Dir. Terry Hughes · With Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Reed Birney, Louise Lasser, Sheree J. Wilson
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