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Gareth Evans has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Raid 2.
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The Raid
2012 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 3%Hulu · Included

Apostle
2018 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 38%Netflix · Included

Merantau
2009 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 39%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Havoc
2025 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 45%Netflix · Included

Gangs of London
2020 · Series · Creator
Top 54%AMC+ · Included

After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.
Dir. Gareth Evans · With Iko Uwais, Arifin Putra, Tio Pakusadewo

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.
Dir. Gareth Evans · With Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah

Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
Dir. Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Eduardo Sánchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Evans, Jason Eisener · With Lawrence Michael Levine, Kelsy Abbott, L.C. Holt

In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
Dir. Gareth Evans · With Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.
Dir. Gareth Evans · With Iko Uwais, Chika Jessica, Christine Hakim

When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.
Dir. Gareth Evans · With Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant

When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
Dir. Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery · With Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Michelle Fairley, Orli Shuka