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James Schamus has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Lung Sihung, Yang Kuei-mei, Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Gua Ah-leh, Lung Sihung, May Chin
King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.
Dir. Sean McNamara · With Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, Benjamin Walker
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver
The lives of the people of Allende, a Mexican border town, are overtaken by a powerful cartel's operations, leading to tragedy. Inspired by true events.
Dir. James Schamus · With Jesús Sida, Mercedes Hernández, Jero Medina
Friends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in, they must decide what honor truly means.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
Dir. James Schamus · With Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott
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