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John Lynch has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by In the Name of the Father.
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Sliding Doors
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Netflix · Included

The Tournament
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 50%Starz · Included

Detour
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Evelyn
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 65%Prime Video · Included

Pilgrimage
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 66%Hulu · Included

The Head
2020 · Series · Actor
Top 68%Max · Included

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Dir. Jim Sheridan · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson

Luke risks his life to visit Paul in a Roman prison, where the apostle awaits execution under Nero. As Paul reflects on his past and the Christian community faces persecution, Luke resolves to record the story of the early church.
Dir. Andrew Hyatt · With Jim Caviezel, James Faulkner, Olivier Martinez

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.
Dir. Agnieszka Holland · With Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott

When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.
Dir. Allan Cubitt · With Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Niamh McGrady

Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she runs down, her life suddenly splits off. In one version she catches the train; in the second, she misses it. Her whole life changes in that one second, and the rest of the film depicts what happens in each scenario.
Dir. Peter Howitt · With Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch

Every seven years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag.
Dir. Scott Mann · With Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
Dir. Richard Stanley · With Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch

A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
Dir. Christopher Smith · With Tye Sheridan, Bel Powley, Emory Cohen

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Dir. Charles Sturridge · With Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
Dir. Ishana Night Shyamalan · With Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies

In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.
Dir. Brendan Muldowney · With Tom Holland, Richard Armitage, Jon Bernthal

In an isolated and inaccessible Antarctic research station in which winter has fallen on the South Pole and the sun will soon disappear for the next six months, a small team, known as the Winterers, remain at the Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station to continue their innovative research. Renowned biologist Arthur Wilde is determined to find a solution to climate change, but his quest turns into a nightmare when several of his esteemed scientists suddenly begin to die.
Dir. Àlex Pastor, David Pastor · With Katharine O'Donnelly, John Lynch, Olivia Morris
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Dir. Billy O'Brien · With John Lynch, Essie Davis, Sean Harris
In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.
Dir. Christopher Smith · With Jessica Brown Findlay, John Heffernan, John Lynch

Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
Dir. Ron Krauss · With James Spader, Janine Eser, John Lynch

As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
Dir. Christopher Smith · With Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Dir. Éric Rochant · With Jean Dujardin, Cécile de France, Tim Roth
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