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James Marsh has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Theory of Everything.
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The Theory of Everything
2014 · Movie · Director
Top 2%Netflix · Included

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009 · Movie · Director
Top 20%Prime Video · Included

Man on Wire
2008 · Movie · Director
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

Shadow Dancer
2012 · Movie · Director
Top 66%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Mercy
2018 · Movie · Director
Top 89%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.
Dir. James Marsh · With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox

After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
Dir. James Marsh · With Paddy Considine, Warren Clarke, Maxine Peake

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.
Dir. James Marsh · With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Dir. James Marsh · With Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard

In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Dir. James Marsh · With Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
Dir. James Marsh · With Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis

London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.
Dir. James Marsh · With Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay