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Leonor Varela has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Innocent Voices.
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Two for the Money
2005
Comedy · Crime

The Business
2005
Drama · Action

Walking Tall
2004
Adventure · Drama

Blood and Bone
2009
Action · Crime

Fighter in the Wind
2004
Action · Drama

For Love and Honor
2007
Action · Crime

Empire
2002
Crime · Action

Batman Begins
2005
Drama · Crime

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.
Dir. Luis Mandoki · With Carlos Padilla, Xuna Primus, Leonor Varela

In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
Dir. Stephen Sommers · With Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
Dir. Francis Veber · With Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno, Richard Berry

Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman

In the prehistoric past, Keda, a young and inexperienced hunter, struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe when bison hunting goes awry. On his way back he will find an unexpected ally.
Dir. Albert Hughes · With Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Marcin Kowalczyk
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
Dir. Antonio Zavala Kugler · With Edith González, Christian Bach, Paola Nuñez

A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.
Dir. Franck Khalfoun · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Harvey Keitel, Alex Meneses
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.
Dir. Steve Miner · With James Van Der Beek, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ashton Kutcher

Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
Dir. Alex Rivera · With Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Luis Fernando Peña

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
Dir. John Boorman · With Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis

Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.
Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra · With Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel
Two rival bikers gangs, the Victors and the Six-Six-Six's, refuel their decades-old rivalry.
Dir. Larry Bishop · With Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour
Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact, as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife, he had picked Octavian as his successor.
Dir. Stephen Harrigan, Anton Diether · With Leonor Varela, Billy Zane, Timothy Dalton

An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star Seann William Scott stars as the ambitious janitor who believes he has what it takes to coach the winning team.
Dir. Danny Leiner · With Seann William Scott, Randy Quaid, Brando Eaton
Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual journey of Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols. After being taken hostage by Brian in her own apartment, Ashley turns to Rick Warren’s inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life, for guidance. In reading from the book, Ashley not only finds purpose in her own life, but helps Brian find a more peaceful resolution to a harrowing situation.
Dir. Jerry Jameson · With Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Michael Kenneth Williams
Overbearing mom, Jackie, travels cross-country to be with her son, Angelo, after he drops out of college to become a surfer. She meets a surf instructor who convinces her to try to accept her son's wishes and allow him to follow his dreams.
Dir. Helen Hunt · With Helen Hunt, Brenton Thwaites, Luke Wilson