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John Logan has 21 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 Gladiator.
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Skyfall
2012 · Movie · Writer
Top 3%MGM+ · Included

Hugo
2011 · Movie · Writer
Top 9%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Alien: Covenant
2017 · Movie · Writer
Top 33%Max · Included

The Time Machine
2002 · Movie · Writer
Top 46%Paramount+ · Included

Star Trek: Nemesis
2002 · Movie · Writer
Top 48%Paramount+ · Included

RKO 281
1999 · Movie · Writer
Top 62%Max · Included
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
The story of Michael Jackson, one of the most influential artists the world has ever known, and his life beyond the music. His journey from the discovery of his extraordinary talent as the lead of the Jackson Five, to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fueled a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world, highlighting both his life off-stage and some of the most iconic performances from his early solo career.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Jaafar Jackson, Colman Domingo, Nia Long
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.
Dir. Sam Mendes · With Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
Dir. Edward Zwick · With Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz

The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
Dir. Tim Johnson, Patrick Gilmore · With Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
Dir. Sam Mendes · With Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
Dir. John Logan · With Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
Dir. Simon Wells · With Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons

En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.
Dir. Stuart Baird · With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
Dir. Benjamin Ross · With Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
Dir. Michael Grandage · With Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Ned Beatty

Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious mother to seek the position of consul, Coriolanus is at odds with the masses and unpopular with certain colleagues. When a riot results in his expulsion from Rome, Coriolanus seeks out his sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius. Together, the pair vow to destroy the great city.
Dir. Ralph Fiennes · With Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Lubna Azabal

Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, this saga explores an exciting mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension.
Dir. John Logan · With Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Kerry Bishé
Campers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endure unsettling psychological techniques while the campsite is stalked by a mysterious killer.
Dir. John Logan · With Theo Germaine, Kevin Bacon, Quei Tann
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Dir. Louis Morneau · With Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton
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