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Jon Gries has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Taken.
Recurring themes

Gotcha!
1985
Action · Comedy

Employee of the Month
2004
Action · Comedy

American Hero
2015
Action · Comedy

Beverly Hills Cop
1984
Comedy · Crime

Turbo Kid
2015
Action · Comedy

Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015
Comedy · Action

Mean Machine
2001
Comedy · Drama

The Family
2013
Crime · Comedy

Napoleon Dynamite
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Hulu · Included

Stick It
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 29%Prime Video · Included

Real Genius
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Get Shorty
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Prime Video · Included

The Rundown
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 53%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Faults
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.
Dir. Pierre Morel · With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld · With Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino

After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!
Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace · With William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Traci Lind

A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Dir. Jared Hess · With Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino

A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.
Dir. Charles Martin Smith · With Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell

Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once there, Haley's rebellious attitude wins her both friends and enemies.
Dir. Jessica Bendinger · With Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, Vanessa Lengies

When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
Dir. Martha Coolidge · With Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld · With John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Dir. Olivier Megaton · With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.
Dir. Michael Polish · With Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot

When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson

Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
Dir. Riley Stearns · With Leland Orser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Ellis

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
Dir. Craig W. Van Sickle, Steven Long Mitchell · With Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
Dir. Tom Hammock · With Haley Lu Richardson, Booboo Stewart, Max Charles
After Stanley Putterman installs a state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard, a strange monster leaps off the screen and needs to feed on humans for survival. The Putterman children Sherman and Suzy—along with Suzy's metalhead boyfriend O.D.—are left to figure out what to do.
Dir. Ted Nicolaou · With Diane Franklin, Gerrit Graham, Mary Woronov

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

After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
Dir. John Dahl · With Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen
In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s eight-year-old son Cody on November 11, 2010. Close to a year later, Modern Defense Enterprises has sent a team of experts to document and investigate the mysterious occurrences, which only escalate upon their arrival. Tensions rise as the team must decide how far they will go to unlock the mysteries of “Skinwalker Ranch.” The group debates whether the answers are worth risking their lives for, or if they should just call off the investigation and leave the ranch—that is, if leaving is actually an option…
Dir. Devin McGinn · With Steve Berg, Kyle Davis, Erin Cahill
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