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Hamish Linklater has 20 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Big Short.
Recurring themes

Ashby
2015
Drama · Romance

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
Comedy · Drama

Take Me Home
2011
Drama · Comedy

Juliet, Naked
2018
Comedy · Drama

Delicacy
2011
Drama · Comedy

Geography Club
2013
Comedy · Drama

Love Is All You Need
2012
Comedy · Romance

People, Places, Things
2015
Romance · Comedy

The Big Short
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Paramount+ · Included

Midnight Mass
2021 · Mini · Actor
Top 29%Netflix · Included

Magic in the Moonlight
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Hulu · Included

Nickel Boys
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 59%Prime Video · Included

The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006 · Series · Actor
Top 60%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Gen V
2023 · Series · Actor
Top 64%Prime Video · Included

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Dir. Adam McKay · With Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling

In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball facing unabashed racism from the public, the press and other players.
Dir. Brian Helgeland · With Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie

The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.
Dir. Mike Flanagan · With Hamish Linklater, Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel

Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Hamish Linklater

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Dir. RaMell Ross · With Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Single working mom Christine Campbell has just learned that her ex is dating a much younger woman with the same first name. To avoid any confusion, the new girlfriend is dubbed New Christine, which leaves her with the unfortunate nickname Old Christine.
Dir. Kari Lizer · With Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Clark Gregg, Hamish Linklater

At America's only college for superheroes, gifted students put their moral boundaries to the test, competing for the university's top ranking, and a chance to join The Seven, Vought International's elite superhero team. When the school's dark secrets come to light, they must decide what kind of heroes they want to become.
Dir. Craig Rosenberg, Evan Goldberg, Eric Kripke · With Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present... and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.
Dir. Kogonada · With Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie, Kevin Kline

David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.
Dir. Noah Hawley · With Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna

A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
Dir. Brie Larson · With Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Joan Cusack

Welcome to Gotham City, where the corrupt outnumber the good, criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear. Forged in the fire of tragedy, wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human—the Batman. His one-man crusade for justice attracts unexpected allies within the GCPD and City Hall, but his heroic actions spawn deadly, unforeseen ramifications.
Dir. Bruce Timm · With Hamish Linklater

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
Dir. Miranda July · With Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky

During a space voyage, four scientists are altered by cosmic rays: Reed Richards gains the ability to stretch his body; Sue Storm can become invisible; Johnny Storm controls fire; and Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong … thing. Together, these "Fantastic Four" must now thwart the evil plans of Dr. Doom and save the world from certain destruction.
Dir. Tim Story · With Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans
In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan

Simon Roberts is eccentric, passionate, unpredictable and brilliant. He's also the first "Roberts" in the Lewis, Roberts + Roberts advertising agency. The second is his pragmatic daughter Sydney. As Sydney struggles to rein in her dad, the agency fights to stay at the top of the ad game, charming everyone from McDonald's bigwigs to Victoria's Secret models in the process!
Dir. David E. Kelley · With Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, James Wolk
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola's longtime fiance, Luke, dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.
Dir. Daryl Wein · With Greta Gerwig, Joel Kinnaman, Zoe Lister-Jones
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
Dir. Phil Alden Robinson · With Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage

as Ben
Sparks fly when self-sufficient single mother Abigail meets magnetic perennial bachelor Ben. On their first date, they collaborate -- in jest -- on the ultimate list: 10 things to do together before they break up. But when fate intervenes, they soon embark on the most challenging journey of all -- building a family together, and the chance to trade their cynicism for hope.
Dir. Galt Niederhoffer · With Christina Ricci, Hamish Linklater, Mia Sinclair Jenness

In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
Dir. Meg Ryan · With Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater, Alex Neustaedter