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Frank Cottrell Boyce has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.

24 Hour Party People
2002 · Movie · Writer
Top 23%Prime Video · Included

Goodbye Christopher Robin
2017 · Movie · Writer
Top 25%Max · Included

The Railway Man
2013 · Movie · Writer
Top 48%Prime Video · Included

Millions
2005 · Movie · Writer
Top 50%Disney+ · Included

Welcome to Sarajevo
1997 · Movie · Writer
Top 62%Paramount+ · Included

The Beautiful Game
2024 · Movie · Writer
Top 74%Netflix · Included

An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles.
Dir. Peter Webber, Lixin Fan, Richard Dale · With Robert Redford, Jackie Chan, Lee Je-hoon

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Lennie James, Paddy Considine

The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.
Dir. Simon Curtis · With Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Will Tilston

A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky · With Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Alex Etel, Lewis McGibbon, James Nesbitt

The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Dir. Anand Tucker · With Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei

A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.
Dir. Thea Sharrock · With Bill Nighy, Micheal Ward, Valeria Golino

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Nabil Elouahabi
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