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Kelly Macdonald has 23 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 Trainspotting.
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Bernie
2012
Comedy · Crime

50/50
2011
Comedy · Drama

A Man Called Ove
2015
Comedy · Drama

Last Flag Flying
2017
Drama · Comedy

The Clown
2011
Comedy · Drama

The Kings of Summer
2013
Comedy · Drama

The Armadillo's Prophecy
2018
Comedy · Drama

Demolition
2016
Comedy · Drama

No Country for Old Men
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Boardwalk Empire
2010 · Series · Actor
Top 11%Max · Included

Brave
2012 · Movie · Voice
Top 13%Disney+ · Included

Goodbye Christopher Robin
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Max · Included

Dept. Q
2025 · Series · Actor
Top 26%Netflix · Included

Giri/Haji
2019 · Mini · Actor
Top 58%Netflix · Included

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Dir. Jed Mercurio · With Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
Dir. Terence Winter · With Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon

In the mystical Scottish Highlands, Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Merida's quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom's three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.
Dir. Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman · With Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly

The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.
Dir. Simon Curtis · With Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Will Tilston

A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.
Dir. Scott Frank, Chandni Lakhani · With Matthew Goode, Chloe Pirrie, Jamie Sives

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.
Dir. Kirk Jones · With Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner

The murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover complex links between government and big business.
Dir. Paul Abbott · With Bill Nighy, David Morrissey, Kelly Macdonald

Family duty sends a lawman to London to look for his mob-assassin brother as a yakuza war threatens to engulf Tokyo. Trust is even tougher to find.
Dir. Joe Barton · With Takehiro Hira, Kelly Macdonald, Yosuke Kubozuka

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Dir. Joe Wright · With Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Dir. John Crowley · With Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Kelly Macdonald

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard

A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
Dir. Clark Gregg · With Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald

After years of caring exclusively for the needs of her husband and children, Agnes, a devoted housewife living in a small town near New York, has found something she really enjoys doing: solving puzzles.
Dir. Marc Turtletaub · With Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
Dir. John Madden · With Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald

A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.
Dir. Babak Anvari · With George MacKay, Percelle Ascott, Kelly Macdonald

A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
Dir. Julian Farino · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Campbell Moore

A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
Dir. Ricky Gervais · With Ricky Gervais, Eric Bana, Vera Farmiga

A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.
Dir. Sheree Folkson · With Kelly Macdonald, Alice Eve, David Tennant
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case as all signs point to Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and longtime nemesis of the crime-solving duo. When new twists and clues begin to emerge, the world's greatest sleuth and his trusted assistant must now use their legendary wits and ingenious methods to catch the killer as they only have four days before the queen becomes the next victim.
Dir. Etan Cohen · With Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Rebecca Hall
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.
Dir. David Yates · With Bill Nighy, Kelly Macdonald, Meneka Das
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