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Matthew Modine has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Full Metal Jacket.
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The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Birdy
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Retribution
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Hulu · Included

Fluke
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Prime Video · Included

Too Big to Fail
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 42%Max · Included

Pacific Heights
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Netflix · Included

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio

Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
Dir. Stefano Sollima · With Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Merced

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
Dir. Alan Parker · With Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins

When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks — all with his kids trapped in the back seat.
Dir. Nimród Antal · With Liam Neeson, Lilly Aspell, Jack Champion

With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.
Dir. Jan Harlan · With Tom Cruise, Barbara Kroner, Steven Marcus

Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of his previous being, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, his memories return, and Thomas realizes he wasn't such a good husband and father.
Dir. Carlo Carlei · With Matthew Modine, Nancy Travis, Eric Stoltz

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton

Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.
Dir. Louis Leterrier · With Jason Statham, Amber Valletta, Alessandro Gassmann

A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid

Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
Dir. John Jencks · With Roger Allam, Matthew Modine, Tim McInnerny

Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life.
Dir. Mike P. Nelson · With Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Bill Sage

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Dir. Benjamin Epps · With Olesya Rulin, Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine

The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Bremen.
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones · With Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
Dir. Johannes Roberts · With Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew Modine

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau

An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged.
Dir. Chris Smith · With Matthew Modine, Roger Rignack, Jillian Peterson

After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.
Dir. Harold Becker · With Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Ronny Cox

Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
Dir. Jonathan Demme · With Michelle Pfeiffer, Alec Baldwin, Dean Stockwell

A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.
Dir. Bob Nelson · With Clive Owen, Jaeden Martell, Maria Bello

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.
Dir. Tate Taylor · With Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall

Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella

A former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.
Dir. Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim, Michael S. Schmidt · With Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including dressing up as a woman to access the girls' locker room. Despite Jim and Christine's efforts to spend some time alone, various shenanigans and schemes interfere.
Dir. Noel Black · With Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Dir. Patricia Riggen · With Eva Mendes, Cierra Ramirez, Matthew Modine

Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.
Dir. Jodi Scurfield · With John Travolta, Katheryn Winnick, Jennifer Esposito
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
Dir. Nick Willing · With Olivia Williams, Matthew Modine, Antonia Clarke

The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.
Dir. Brian A. Miller · With Ryan Guzman, Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Dir. James Ivory · With Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close