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Griffin Dunne has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by Dallas Buyers Club.
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Arthur
1981
Comedy · Drama

My Favorite Year
1982
Comedy · Drama

Risky Business
1983
Romance · Comedy

The Big Picture
1989
Comedy · Romance

Courier
1986
Drama · Romance

Author! Author!
1982
Comedy · Drama

Moscow on the Hudson
1984
Comedy · Drama

Charlie Bartlett
2008
Comedy · Drama

An American Werewolf in London
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Shudder · Included

My Girl
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Netflix · Included

Caught Stealing
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Netflix · Included

Addicted to Love
1997 · Movie · Director
Top 60%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Tumbledown
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 67%Prime Video · Included

The Great Buck Howard
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 68%Starz · Included

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée · With Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.
Dir. John Landis · With David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
Dir. Howard Zieff · With Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom

Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Jacques, following in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy, harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing patterns in the water, with his vital signs more closely resembling those of dolphins than men.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
Dir. Griffin Dunne · With Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing

Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
Dir. Darren Aronofsky · With Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
Dir. Amy Heckerling · With Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner

Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do — go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, wait until she decides to leave her current lover, and then win her back.
Dir. Griffin Dunne · With Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston

Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's restaurant, growing closer to a new kid in town, Lila, after class. When Glenn and Annie's daughter goes missing, the whole town searches for her, as he increasingly spirals out of control.
Dir. David Gordon Green · With Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano

A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.
Dir. Sean Mewshaw · With Rebecca Hall, Jason Sudeikis, Dianna Agron

When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.
Dir. Sean McGinly · With John Malkovich, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn

The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
Dir. Raymond De Felitta · With Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Andy Garcia

A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.
Dir. Griffin Dunne · With Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland
An uptight New York City tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down one day when he's asked to escort a feisty free-spirited ex-convict who asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
Dir. James Foley · With Madonna, Griffin Dunne, Bibi Besch

Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and Joanna encounters the other great love of her life, each is thrust into an evening of temptation.
Dir. Massy Tadjedin · With Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes
Emma, a radio host, is about to be married to Richard, her perfect match. But right before her wedding, she learns she's already married to Patrick, a charming but irresponsible fireman. Furthermore, Patrick has a secret: he has arranged this little trick because Emma advised Patrick's ex-fiancée to end their relationship. However, Patrick may find that the trick is on him, for he soon begins to fall in love with his uptight adversary.
Dir. Griffin Dunne · With Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth
Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives something up. That's when Matt decides to go where no man's gone before and make a vow: No sex. Whatsoever. For 40 straight days. At first he has everything under control. That is until the woman of his dreams, Erica, walks into his life.
Dir. Michael Lehmann · With Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Paulo Costanzo
A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest and brightest. In some countries, like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the structure differs. Instead of a pitch, the films are connected by a group of three teenagers searching for the most banned film in the world, Movie 43, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of civilization.
Dir. Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Griffin Dunne, Elizabeth Banks, Peter Farrelly, Brett Ratner, James Duffy, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Will Graham, Jonathan van Tulleken, Rusty Cundieff · With Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman