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Matthew Vaughn has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · Movie · Writer
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

X-Men: First Class
2011 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 3%Max · Included

Stardust
2007 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 7%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 10%Max · Included

The King's Man
2021 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 22%Hulu · Included

The Debt
2010 · Movie · Writer
Top 67%Prime Video · Included

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender

The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer

When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Tom Hardy

Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
Dir. John Madden · With Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Worthington

When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past. Accompanied by her cat Alfie and Aidan, a cat-allergic spy, Elly races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Conway's fictional world and her real one begins to blur.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell