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John Carroll Lynch has 34 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Shutter Island.
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mid90s
2018
Drama · Comedy

The Rum Diary
2011
Comedy · Drama

Mississippi Grind
2015
Comedy · Drama

As Cool as I Am
2013
Comedy · Drama

Tallulah
2016
Drama · Comedy

The Land of Steady Habits
2018
Drama · Comedy

Hippocrates
2014
Comedy · Drama

Lady Bird
2017
Drama · Comedy

Fargo
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

Zodiac
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Paramount+ · Included

Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Netflix · Included

Face/Off
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Paramount+ · Included

She Rides Shotgun
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%MGM+ · Included

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.
Dir. David Fincher · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards

Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
Dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa · With Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
Dir. Aaron Sorkin · With Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Rylance
Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.
Dir. Peter Horton · With Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Annabella Sciorra

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Dir. John Woo · With John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen

When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired.
Dir. Patricia Riggen · With Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, Martin Henderson

Newly released from prison and marked for death by unrelenting enemies, Nate must now protect his estranged 11-year-old daughter, Polly, at all costs. With scant resources and no one to trust, Nate and Polly forge a bond under fire as he shows her how to fight and survive—and she teaches him the true meaning of unconditional love.
Dir. Nick Rowland · With Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger, Rob Yang

Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Dir. John Carroll Lynch · With Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.
Dir. Greg Mottola · With Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen

For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.
Dir. Donald Petrie · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret

After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz · With Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton

Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.
Dir. Karyn Kusama · With Logan Marshall-Green, Tammy Blanchard, Emayatzy Corinealdi

Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper and deeper into the insular world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.
Dir. Tamara Jenkins · With Paul Giamatti, Kathryn Hahn, Kayli Carter

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates
Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track.
Dir. Eva Victor · With Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi

A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Dir. Spencer Susser · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Devin Brochu

A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.
Dir. Peter Sattler · With Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Dir. Susanne Bier · With Halle Berry, Benicio del Toro, David Duchovny

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

Detective Renée Ballard plunges into a web of murder and corruption as she hunts a ruthless serial killer and uncovers a sinister police conspiracy that threatens everything she stands for. With her own demons nipping at her heels, Ballard must outwit both criminals and colleagues to bring long-overdue justice to the victims and their families.
Dir. Kendall Sherwood · With Maggie Q, Courtney Taylor, John Carroll Lynch

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
Dir. Mick Jackson · With Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Dir. Pablo Larraín · With Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig

A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Dir. Petter Næss · With Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole
Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy – bubble suit and all – treks cross-country to stop her.
Dir. Blair Hayes · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Dir. Miguel Arteta · With Jennifer Aniston, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Gyllenhaal

Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to escort Daniella Riva, a wisecracking Colombian beauty, from San Antonio to Dallas so both she and her husband can testify against a drug lord. Plans go awry when Mr. Riva gets ambushed, leaving Daniella a widow. Cooper and her witness must now use their wits to escape from crooked cops and murderous gunmen, while not killing each other in the process.
Dir. Anne Fletcher · With Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, John Carroll Lynch
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