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Freddie Highmore has 21 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 The Good Doctor.
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The Cat Returns
2002
Adventure · Fantasy

The Boy and the Beast
2015
Action · Adventure

Niko and the Way to the Stars
2008
Animation · Family

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
2009
Animation · Family

Tinker Bell
2008
Animation · Family

How to Train Your Dragon
2010
Fantasy · Adventure

Help! I'm a Fish
2000
Adventure · Animation

Return to Never Land
2002
Adventure · Fantasy

The Good Doctor
2017 · Series · Actor
Top 1%Hulu · Included

Bates Motel
2013 · Series · Actor
Top 9%Prime Video · Included

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Max · Included

The Vault
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Prime Video · Included

Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 56%Prime Video · Included

Toast
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 60%Prime Video · Included

Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital's surgical unit. Unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.
Dir. David Shore · With Freddie Highmore, Fiona Gubelmann, Will Yun Lee

Evan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater. After discovering his talent, the Wizard gives Evan the name "August Rush" and devises a plan to profit from his talent. Little does Evan know that his parents, Lyla and Louis, are searching for him too.
Dir. Kirsten Sheridan · With Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.
Dir. Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, Anthony Cipriano · With Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.
Dir. Marc Forster · With Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore

Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Dir. Mark Waters · With Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, David Strathairn

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet.
Dir. Jaume Balagueró · With Freddie Highmore, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jose Coronado

Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, tiny people living in harmony with nature.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Freddie Highmore, Madonna, Mia Farrow

Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.
Dir. SJ Clarkson · With Freddie Highmore, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton
An unlikely trio of heroes – a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie – embark on an epic adventure to find the “Rim of Heaven” - the mythological safe haven for all dragons.
Dir. Tomer Eshed · With Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Freddie Highmore, Felicity Jones

A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.
Dir. Frank Spotnitz, Steve Thompson · With Aidan Turner, Freddie Highmore, Matilda De Angelis

George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
Dir. Gavin Wiesen · With Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
Dir. Jake Goldberger · With Freddie Highmore, Odeya Rush, Christopher Meloni

In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Dir. Chris Weitz · With Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig
The Psammead is an 'it', an ancient, ill-tempered sand-fairy with a spider-shaped body, bat-like ears, and snail-like eyes. It is grumpy but has the power to grant one wish a day, which must be made before sunset. Five siblings—Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and infant Hilary—encounter It and experience the highs and lows of frivolous wish-making.
Dir. John Stephenson · With Tara Fitzgerald, Freddie Highmore, Alex Jennings

Arthur answers a distress call from Princess Selenia, who is menaced by the nefarious Maltazard.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Logan Miller

Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost. Unable to fulfill his creator's expectations, Astro embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before returning to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who rejected him.
Dir. David Bowers · With Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane

A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.
Dir. Manuel Sicilia · With Saoirse Ronan, Freddie Highmore, Antonio Banderas

With Maltazard now seven feet tall and Arthur still two inches small, our hero must find a way to grow back to his normal size and stop the Evil M once and for all, with the help of Selenia and Betameche.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Robert Stanton
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