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Jake Johnson has 22 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
2017
Comedy · Drama

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Max · Included

New Girl
2011 · Series · Actor
Top 27%Hulu · Included

Safety Not Guaranteed
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Tubi · Free w/ ads

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2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Max · Included

Let's Be Cops
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 46%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
Dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman · With Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
Dir. Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos · With Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry

Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.
Dir. Elizabeth Meriwether · With Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield

Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
Dir. Colin Trevorrow · With Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson

For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade. This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they’re coming...and he’s ready.
Dir. Jeff Tomsic · With Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
Dir. Colin Trevorrow · With Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan

Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.
Dir. Luke Greenfield · With Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Rob Riggle

Will is a 30-something website manager who uses local café, Coffee Town, as his office. When the owners of the shop discuss plans to convert Coffee Town into a bar, Will enlists the help of his two best friends Chad and Gino to save his freeloading existence. In order to thwart the plans of Coffee Town's owners, the trio stages a robbery to create the illusion of an unsafe neighborhood not suitable for the proposed venue. Also standing in their way is Sam, a disgruntled barista with delusions of grandeur and Will's heartache over unrequited love for Becca.
Dir. Brad Copeland · With Glenn Howerton, Steve Little, Ben Schwartz

Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline

When her idolized twin sister Audrey dies in a car accident, Laurel decides to take her place. But, as she eases into the life she has always wanted, she must decide between continuing the lie or revealing herself.
Dir. Jenée LaMarque · With Zoe Kazan, Jake Johnson, Ron Livingston

Dex Parios is a strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted Army veteran working as a P.I. in Portland, Oregon. With a complicated personal history and only herself to rely on, she solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own.
Dir. Jason Richman · With Cobie Smulders, Jake Johnson, Michael Ealy
An earnest young feminist joins forces with a low-rent publisher to make the world's first erotic magazine for women.
Dir. Ellen Rapoport · With Ophelia Lovibond, Jake Johnson, Jessica Lowe

A foul-mouthed high school basketball coach is sure he'll hit the big leagues if he can only turn his terrible team around. Good luck with that.
Dir. Ben Hoffman · With Jake Johnson, Rob Riggle, Natasha Leggero

Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. After placing an ad on Craigslist, the siblings decide to pick Tatiana and Alice, two charming and seemingly normal women. Once they arrive on the island, however, Mike and Dave realize that their companions are ready to get wild and party.
Dir. Jake Szymanski · With Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick, Adam Devine

Six years have elapsed since Guantanamo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold's doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in hand, he inadvertently burns down Harold's father-in-law's beloved Christmas tree. To fix the problem, Harold and Kumar embark on a mission through New York City to find the perfect Christmas tree, once again stumbling into trouble at every single turn.
Dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson · With John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garcés

Paper Heart follows Nick and Charlyne on a cross-country journey to document what exactly "love" is. Interviewing ministers, happily married couples, chemists, romance novelists, divorce lawyers, a group of children and more, the determined young girl attempts to find definition and perhaps even experience the mysterious emotion.
Dir. Nicholas Jasenovec · With Lo Mutuc, Michael Cera, Jake Johnson

When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only attack when he’s alone. His only problem is that none of his friends or family believe the game is real. Forced to seek companionship in unexpected places, he navigates the bizarre challenge with humor, paranoia, and a surprising search for connection.
Dir. Jake Johnson · With Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales

A gambling addict faces a conflict when entrusted with keeping a bunch of money that isn't his.
Dir. Joe Swanberg · With Jake Johnson, Aislinn Derbez, Joe Lo Truglio

as Lowery (voice) · Voice
The scientists of Jurassic World create a captivating and terrifying new creature that loves hot dogs. But what happens when the hot dogs run out?
Dir. Michael D. Black · With Bryce Dallas Howard, A.J. LoCascio, Sendhil Ramamurthy

Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
Dir. Joe Swanberg · With Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick

Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
Dir. Joe Swanberg · With Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jude Swanberg

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Dir. Alex Kurtzman · With Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella
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