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Margo Martindale has 31 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Million Dollar Baby.
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Orphan
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Instant Family
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Prime Video · Included

The Americans
2013 · Series · Actor
Top 16%Hulu · Included

Secretariat
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Disney+ · Included

Dead Man Walking
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Uncle Frank
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra · With Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.
Dir. Sean Anders · With Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Allyn Rachel

Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
Dir. Joe Weisberg · With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
Dir. Randall Wallace · With Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Scott Glenn

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
Dir. Tim Robbins · With Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
Dir. John Wells · With Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
Dir. Alan Ball · With Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi

Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.
Dir. George Miller · With Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov

An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
Dir. Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Tom Rob Smith, Sarah Burgess · With Sarah Paulson, Beanie Feldstein, Annaleigh Ashford
When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change of scenery. But sweet niblets! Miley must trade in all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood for some ol' blue jeans on the family farm in Tennessee, and question if she can be both Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana.
Dir. Peter Chelsom · With Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment

Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
Dir. Jake Kasdan · With John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Raymond J. Barry

A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.
Dir. David Shore, Bryan Cranston · With Giovanni Ribisi, Marin Ireland, Margo Martindale

When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother retrieves him.
Dir. Tom McCarthy · With Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Dir. Jerry Zaks · With Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Leonardo DiCaprio

Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.
Dir. Jeffrey Blitz · With Nicholas D'Agosto, Margo Martindale, Reece Thompson

The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition… literally.
Dir. Andrea Berloff · With Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss

The true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.”
Dir. Dahvi Waller · With Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Uzo Aduba

Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.
Dir. Craig Johnson · With Woody Harrelson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Cheryl Hines

Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
Dir. Elizabeth Banks · With Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr.

Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.
Dir. Garry Marshall · With Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson

Ominous letters. Strange neighbors. Sinister threats. A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare.
Dir. Ian Brennan, Ryan Murphy · With Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Isabel Gravitt

Aspiring New York City artist John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend Rebecca, eight months pregnant with their first child, John is forced to navigate the crazy world he left behind.
Dir. John Krasinski · With John Krasinski, Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins

Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
Dir. Richard LaGravenese · With Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons

A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Dir. Robert Benton · With Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman

While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village.
Dir. Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy · With Morgan Saylor, Sophie Lowe, Margo Martindale

After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of love that both have been looking for all along.
Dir. Michael Ian Black · With Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Michael Weston

A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.
Dir. Stephen Belber · With Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea
When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of magical animals to bring them down.
Dir. Phil Johnston · With Margo Martindale, Johnny Vegas, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan