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Melanie Lynskey has 28 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 Over the Garden Wall.
Delicacy
2011
Drama · Comedy
Over the Garden Wall
2014 · Mini · Voice
Top 1%Hulu · Included
EverAfter
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Disney+ · Included
But I'm a Cheerleader
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Peacock · Included
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Netflix · Included
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2024 · Mini · Actor
Top 31%Peacock · Included
Shattered Glass
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Prime Video · Included
Two brothers, Wirt and Greg, find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With the help of a wise old Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, Wirt and Greg must travel across this strange land, in hope of finding their way home. Join them as they encounter surprises and obstacles on their journey through the wood.
Dir. Patrick McHale, Katie Krentz · With Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, Melanie Lynskey
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
Dir. Stephen Chbosky · With Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller
Danielle, a vibrant young woman, was forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother, Rodmilla, is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.
Dir. Andy Tennant · With Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
Dir. Jamie Babbit · With Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Cathy Moriarty
When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
Dir. Macon Blair · With Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, David Yow
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!
Dir. Adam Rifkin · With Giuseppe Andrews, James DeBello, Edward Furlong
The powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.
Dir. Heather Morris · With Jonah Hauer-King, Anna Próchniak, Jonas Nay
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.
Dir. Peter Jackson · With Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
Dir. Billy Ray · With Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Dir. Lorene Scafaria · With Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Connie Britton
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.
Dir. Jason Reitman · With George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.
Dir. Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson · With Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.
Dir. Andy Tennant · With Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey
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 former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living his dream.
Dir. Don Handfield · With Brian Presley, Kurt Russell, Melanie Lynskey
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.
Dir. David McNally · With Piper Perabo, Maria Bello, Bridget Moynahan
After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.
Dir. Leif Tilden · With Graham Rogers, Billy Crudup, Liana Liberato
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
Dir. Tim Blake Nelson · With Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
Dir. Clea DuVall · With Natasha Lyonne, Cobie Smulders, Melanie Lynskey
Candy Montgomery is a 1980s housewife and mother who did everything right — but when the pressure of conformity builds within her, her actions scream for just a bit of freedom. Until someone tells her to shush. With deadly results.
Dir. Robin Veith, Nick Antosca · With Jessica Biel, Melanie Lynskey, Pablo Schreiber
Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
Dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass · With Mark Duplass, Melanie Lynskey, Steve Zissis
Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, commissions a team of psychics and a gifted autistic girl to find out the truth about an old, supposedly haunted mansion called Rose Red.
Dir. Stephen King · With Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown
An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce.
Dir. Todd Louiso · With Melanie Lynskey, Blythe Danner, John Rubinstein
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
Dir. Karyn Kusama, Roxanne Benjamin, Jovanka Vuckovic, St. Vincent · With Natalie Brown, Jonathan Watton, Peter DaCunha
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
Dir. Joe Swanberg · With Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber
Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Devon, after his beautiful coworker, Kelsey, confesses that she has a crush on him. After a conversation with his best friend, Jameson, he clumsily tries to explain his doubts to Devon, but his possible proposal turns into a break-up. When Devon flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to win back "the one."
Dir. Simon Helberg, Jocelyn Towne · With Simon Helberg, Melanie Lynskey, Zachary Quinto
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.
Dir. Stephen Gaghan · With Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam
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