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John McConnell has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Interview with the Vampire.
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A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas

Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.
Dir. Simon West · With Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn

Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba

An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · With Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans
Found at a Catholic hospital filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by The Bishop and his obedient nuns, where she’s to be rehabilitated into a "good girl" as an example of the miraculous work of the church. But Darlin’ holds a secret darker than the "sins" she is threatened with, and she is not traveling alone. The Woman who raised her, equally fierce and feral, is ever present in the shadows of Darlin’s psyche and is determined to come for her no matter who tries to get in her way.
Dir. Pollyanna McIntosh · With Lauryn Canny, Bryan Batt, Nora-Jane Noone
A reporter unearths an urban legend about a home being constructed from rooms where horrific tragedies have occurred.
Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman · With Jessica Lowndes, Joe Anderson, Lin Shaye