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Kevin McNally has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
The Darkest Minds
2018
Action · Adventure

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Disney+ · Included

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Disney+ · Included

Conspiracy
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Max · Included

The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%AMC+ · Included

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Disney+ · Included

Valkyrie
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 38%MGM+ · Included

Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down the still-beating heart of Jones. But he won’t do it alone: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are drawn back into another one of his perilous quests—assuming they can evade execution for aiding a pirate.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

After losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to the ends of the earth to rescue him. And as the East India Trading Company tightens its grip on the seas under Lord Cutler Beckett—now in control of Davy Jones—the fate of piracy hangs by a thread. Now, they must unite the pirate lords for one final stand. But as loyalties are tested and alliances shift, each must ultimately choose where they stand in the battle for freedom on the high seas.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom

When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe, were watched live on television by millions of viewers. But what was more shocking was that the cause of the disaster might never be uncovered. The Challenger is the story of how Richard Feynman, one of America's most famous scientists, helped to discover the cause of a tragedy that stunned America.
Dir. James Hawes · With William Hurt, Bruce Greenwood, Joanne Whalley

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Dir. Frank Pierson · With Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Dir. Matt Brown · With Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones

Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
Dir. Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning · With Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
Dir. Richard Attenborough · With Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton

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

A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.
Dir. Natalie Erika James · With Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Jim Sturgess

When Jack crosses paths with a woman from his past, he's not sure if it's love...or if she's a ruthless con artist using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.
Dir. Rob Marshall · With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush

The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
Dir. Craig Silverstein · With Jamie Bell, Seth Numrich, Heather Lind

A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When a billionaire entrepreneur sponsors the exhibition of the Crown Jewels—and the valuable gems disappear on the opening night and on English's watch—the newly-designated agent must jump into action to find the thief and recover the missing gems.
Dir. Peter Howitt · With Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller

Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
Dir. Jon Amiel · With Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sean Connery, Will Patton
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Dir. James McTeigue · With John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve
It’s been 20 years since the corporations took over the world’s governments. Their thirst for power and profits led to the Corporate Wars, a fierce global battle that laid waste to society as we know it. Born from the ash, the Council of Nine rose as a new law and order for this dark age. To avenge the corporations’ reckless destruction, the Council issues death warrants for all white collar criminals. Their hunters—the bounty killer. From amateur savage to graceful assassin, the bounty killers now compete for body count, fame and a fat stack of cash. They’re ending the plague of corporate greed and providing the survivors of the apocalypse with retribution. These are the new heroes. This is the age of the BOUNTY KILLER.
Dir. Henry Saine · With Christian Pitre, Matthew Marsden, Kristanna Loken

From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, inspiring some of the greatest songs of the twentieth century.
Dir. Irwin Winkler · With Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce

This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.
Dir. Nigel Williams · With Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Rory Kinnear
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