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Mark Gatiss has 18 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 The Father.
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Gaspard at the Wedding
2018
Comedy · Drama

The Joneses
2010
Comedy · Drama

Madame Bovary
2015
Drama

Where Do We Go Now?
2011
Drama · Comedy

The Intervention
2016
Comedy · Drama

Girl in Progress
2012
Comedy · Drama

Jab Harry Met Sejal
2017
Comedy · Drama

Lucia's Grace
2018
Comedy · Drama

Sherlock
2010 · Series · Creator
Top 1%Hulu · Included

The Fantastic 4: First Steps
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Disney+ · Included

Denial
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Netflix · Included

Our Kind of Traitor
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 63%MGM+ · Included

Operation Mincemeat
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 67%Netflix · Included

Starter for 10
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 74%Max · Included
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Dir. Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Dir. Florian Zeller · With Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss

as Mycroft Holmes · Writer
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.
Dir. Douglas Mackinnon · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs

England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos · With Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a familiar face to convince the Doctors the universe still needs them.
Dir. Rachel Talalay · With Peter Capaldi, David Bradley, Mark Gatiss

Against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel's First Family is forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, while defending Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.
Dir. Matt Shakman · With Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

as Miss Blight (voice) · Voice
Prime Video · Rent
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
Dir. Steve Box, Nick Park · With Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter

Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
Dir. Terry McDonough · With David Bradley, Jessica Raine, Sacha Dhawan

The League of Gentlemen is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC Two over three series from 1999 to 2002. In the fictional Northern England town of Royston Vasey—based on Bacup, Lancashire—the lives are explored of dozens of bizarre citizens, much of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the titular comedy troupe in 1995. The programme was followed by a film in 2005, and a three-part revival miniseries in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.
Dir. Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Jeremy Dyson · With Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Dir. Mick Jackson · With Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall

A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
Dir. Susanna White · With Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Damian Lewis

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

In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
Dir. Tom Vaughan · With James McAvoy, Alice Eve, Rebecca Hall

Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
Dir. Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Claes Bang · With Claes Bang, John Heffernan, Dolly Wells

London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.
Dir. Ronan Bennett, Daniel West · With Kit Harington, Mark Gatiss, Edward Holcroft

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
Dir. James Marsh · With Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis
During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive department stores, Harrods.
Dir. Doug Liman · With Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Merchant
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Dir. Oliver Parker · With Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon
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