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Jack Thorne has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Wonder.
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Wonder
2017 · Movie · Writer
Top 1%MGM+ · Included

Enola Holmes 2
2022 · Movie · Writer
Top 6%Netflix · Included

Enola Holmes
2020 · Movie · Writer
Top 8%Netflix · Included

The Swimmers
2022 · Movie · Writer
Top 18%Netflix · Included

Adolescence
2025 · Mini · Creator
Top 20%Netflix · Included

The Aeronauts
2019 · Movie · Writer
Top 30%Prime Video · Included
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Dir. Stephen Chbosky · With Jacob Tremblay, Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson

Enola takes on her first official case as a detective, but to solve the mystery of a missing girl, she'll need help from friends — and brother Sherlock.
Dir. Harry Bradbeer · With Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, David Thewlis

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
Dir. Harry Bradbeer · With Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin

From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.
Dir. Sally El Hosaini · With Nathalie Issa, Manal Issa, Matthias Schweighöfer

When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?
Dir. Stephen Graham, Jack Thorne

In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.
Dir. Tom Harper · With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Courtenay

Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.
Dir. Jack Thorne · With Dafne Keen, Amir Wilson, Ruth Wilson
Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.
Dir. Marc Munden · With Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham, Ian Hart
A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
Dir. Ben Taylor · With Bill Nighy, James Norton, Thomasin McKenzie

Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a failed musician—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, a London high-rise with the well-earned nickname Topper's Tower, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family. They become media sensations as the Topper House Four and search together for reasons to keep on living.
Dir. Pascal Chaumeil · With Pierce Brosnan, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots

The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Dir. Marjane Satrapi · With Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Aneurin Barnard
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.
Dir. Marc Munden · With Dixie Egerickx, Tommy Gene Surridge, Colin Firth
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