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Jessica Chastain has 36 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Interstellar.
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Interstellar
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Hulu · Included

The Help
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Take Shelter
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Mothers' Instinct
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Hulu · Included

Molly's Game
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Paramount+ · Included

Memory
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Paramount+ · Included

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Dir. Tate Taylor · With Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
Dir. John Madden · With Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
Dir. Andy Muschietti · With Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Dir. Kathryn Bigelow · With Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Dir. Jeff Nichols · With Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston
A look behind the lens of Christopher Nolan's space epic.
Dir. Dan Storey · With Alex Zane, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Dir. Niki Caro · With Jessica Chastain, Daniel Brühl, Johan Heldenbergh

Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.
Dir. Benoît Delhomme · With Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Anders Danielsen Lie

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.
Dir. John Hillcoat · With Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
Dir. Aaron Sorkin · With Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Dir. Andy Muschietti · With Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier

Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
Dir. Michel Franco · With Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.
Dir. Tobias Lindholm · With Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne, Nnamdi Asomugha

As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.
Dir. Cedric Nicolas-Troyan · With Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt

Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.
Dir. Susanna White · With Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes, Sam Rockwell

Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Dir. Ned Benson · With James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Dir. J.C. Chandor · With Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo

Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Dir. Ned Benson · With Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis

Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
Dir. John Madden · With Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Worthington

A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
Dir. Simon Kinberg · With Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz

A chronicle of the many years of love and turmoil that bind a contemporary American couple, tracking their relationship as it progresses through a number of successive stages: matrimony, parenthood, infidelity, divorce and subsequent partnerships.
Dir. Hagai Levi · With Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac

From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
Dir. Michael Showalter · With Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones

The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.
Dir. Simon Kinberg · With Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.
Dir. Dan Ireland · With Jessica Chastain, Frances Fisher, Rupert Friend

A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Dir. Ned Benson · With Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
Dir. Tate Taylor · With Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common
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