Hugh Jackman’s Typical Vibe
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Hugh Jackman has 40 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 5 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Prestige.
Recurring themes

Max Steel
2016
Action · Adventure

Black Lightning
2009
Science Fiction · Action

Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel
2011
Action · Adventure

Supercross
2005
Action · Adventure

Junglee
2019
Action · Adventure

Spider-Man
2002
Action · Science Fiction

Beyond the Mask
2015
Action · Adventure

The Legend Is Born: Ip Man
2010
Drama · Action

Logan
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

Deadpool & Wolverine
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

The Greatest Showman
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

X-Men
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Disney+ · Included

X2
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Disney+ · Included

In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
Dir. James Mangold · With Hugh Jackman, Dafne Keen, Patrick Stewart

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender

After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis

A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctant Wolverine.
Dir. Shawn Levy · With Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Dir. Michael Gracey · With Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams

When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
Dir. Peter Ramsey · With Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law

Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
Dir. Shawn Levy · With Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Dir. Tom Hooper · With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried

The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
Dir. Dexter Fletcher · With Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen
A look behind the lens of Christopher Nolan's space epic.
Dir. Dan Storey · With Alex Zane, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Dir. Stephen Sommers · With Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh

Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams.
Dir. Craig Brewer · With Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Michael Imperioli

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.
Dir. Chris Butler · With Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldaña, Zach Galifianakis

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman

Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
Dir. James Mangold · With Hugh Jackman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tao Okamoto

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
Dir. Baz Luhrmann · With Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Essie Davis

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Dir. Darren Aronofsky · With Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn

Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this documentary includes rare archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and others and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop.
Dir. Constance Marks · With Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Oz, Kevin Clash

Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
Dir. Neill Blomkamp · With Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman
Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.
Dir. Dominic Sena · With John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
Dir. Florian Zeller · With Hugh Jackman, Zen McGrath, Vanessa Kirby

as Self - 'Logan / 'Wolverine'
While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men (2000)
Dir. Thomas C. Grane · With Bruce Davison, Terry Anzur, Bryan Singer

A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.
Dir. Cory Finley · With Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Geraldine Viswanathan

as Gabriel Van Helsing (voice) · Voice
It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to London to investigate a series of horrific, and decidedly supernatural murders, being committed by the mad scientist Dr. Jekyll, in the form of his evil alter-ego, Mr. Hyde.
Dir. Sharon Bridgeman · With Hugh Jackman, Robbie Coltrane, David Wenham

When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men led by Professor Charles Xavier, and Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants.
Dir. Brett Ratner · With Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.
Dir. Lisa Joy · With Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.
Dir. David Bowers, Sam Fell · With Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen
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