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Joe Pantoliano has 27 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Matrix.
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Memento
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Netflix · Included

The Fugitive
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%AMC+ · Included

The Goonies
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Bad Boys for Life
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Hulu · Included

Bad Boys
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Tubi · Free w/ ads

La Bamba
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Netflix · Included
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski · With Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano

Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition. However, on their quest to find the treasure, they run into a family of recently escaped criminals, determined to capture the kids and reach the treasure first.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen

Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.
Dir. Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah · With Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
Dir. Martin Brest · With Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Téa Leoni

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
Dir. Luis Valdez · With Lou Diamond Phillips, Danielle von Zerneck, Elizabeth Peña

Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
Dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski · With Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà

U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
Dir. Stuart Baird · With Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr.

Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.
Dir. Paul Brickman · With Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano

Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.
Dir. Patrick Read Johnson · With Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano

Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.
Dir. Phillip Borsos · With Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan

Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Dir. Simón Brand · With Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan

Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.
Dir. Michael Traeger · With Jeff Bridges, Lauren Graham, Ted Danson

After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of love that both have been looking for all along.
Dir. Michael Ian Black · With Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Michael Weston
A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.
Dir. Jared Stern · With Noël Wells, Ben Schwartz, Joe Pantoliano
A young pickpocket in the New York subways, living a fast, free, lifestyle is confronted by a woman whom he had a one night affair with, she informs him that she is now pregnant with his child, he must now choose between continuing the lifestyle he lead or take responsibility for his actions.
Dir. Michael Corrente · With Peter Facinelli, Jaimie Alexander, Michael Madsen
A group of young explorers discover a secret area hidden from all maps and GPS devices. When they reach the center of the lake, they discover an abandoned facility that houses one of the largest, and deadliest apex-predators known to man.
Dir. Darrell James Roodt · With Katherine Barrell, Tim Rozon, Luke Newton
Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter.
Dir. Brian Robbins · With David Arquette, Scott Caan, Chris Owen
Duke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs, Calif. He soon faces competition from Leo, a former military man who likes the same woman that Duke is interested in. When Diver's past suddenly catches up with him, he must put aside his differences and reluctantly team up with Leo to stop whoever is trying to kill him.
Dir. Ron Shelton · With Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Russo
When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs and touches off an epic battle for pet supremacy. The fur flies as the feline faction, led by Mr. Tinkles, squares off against wide-eyed puppy Lou and his canine cohorts.
Dir. Lawrence Guterman · With Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins, Alexander Pollock

A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.
Dir. Mark Steven Johnson · With Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell
The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to lunar gangster Mogan, who just happens to be helping the mysterious Rex Crater mastermind a plan to take over the entire moon.
Dir. Ron Underwood · With Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson
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