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Fred Melamed has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Dir. S. Craig Zahler · With Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
Dir. Emma Seligman · With Rachel Sennott, Molly Gordon, Polly Draper

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · With Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
Dir. S. Craig Zahler · With Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins

When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
Dir. Nikole Beckwith · With Ed Helms, Patti Harrison, Anna Konkle

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Dir. Tate Taylor · With Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd

An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Dir. Lake Bell · With Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Michaela Watkins

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
Dir. Peter Yates · With Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson

A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
Dir. Keith Thomas · With Dave Davis, Lynn Cohen, Menashe Lustig
By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired of the game and is looking for something more meaningful and lasting. So when Kate, Richard’s tanned, athletic, 25-year-old American girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant, Richard is thrilled. He looks forward to having a family of his own, being a father his children could be proud of, not some sex-fueled bobcat. There is only one problem. Richard’s not in love with Kate. Richard is in love with Kate’s sister, Olivia. He had been in love with her ever since he first saw her.
Dir. Tom Vaughan · With Pierce Brosnan, Jessica Alba, Salma Hayek Pinault

Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.
Dir. Matt Aselton · With Theo James, Emily Ratajkowski, Fred Melamed
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