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Michael Stuhlbarg has 30 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 Call Me by Your Name.
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Doctor Strange
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Disney+ · Included

Arrival
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Paramount+ · Included

Bones and All
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Prime Video · Included

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Disney+ · Included

Hugo
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Your Honor
2020 · Series · Actor
Top 9%Paramount+ · Included

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Dir. Luca Guadagnino · With Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Dir. Scott Derrickson · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
Dir. John Madden · With Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
Dir. Luca Guadagnino · With Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance

Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Xochitl Gomez, Elizabeth Olsen

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz

New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
Dir. Peter Moffat · With Bryan Cranston, Hope Davis, Isiah Whitlock Jr.

After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.
Dir. James Hawes · With Rami Malek, Holt McCallany, Danny Sapani

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins

The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.
Dir. Danny Strong · With Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg

During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Dir. Edward Zwick · With Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Dir. Martin McDonagh · With Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Dir. Jay Roach · With Bryan Cranston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Louis C.K.

The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Golshifteh Farahani

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · With Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed

Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.
Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld · With Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin

After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen

While Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
Dir. Lawrence Wright, Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney · With Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Dir. Tim Blake Nelson · With David Arquette, Velizar Binev, Michael Stuhlbarg

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
Dir. Sophie Barthes · With Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, Dina Korzun

Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.
Dir. Sacha Gervasi · With Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson

An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
Dir. Don Cheadle · With Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi

An exploration of the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.
Dir. Antonio Campos · With Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Dir. Josephine Decker · With Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg

Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up with an unusual accomplice — Rory's therapist — to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.
Dir. Doug Liman · With Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Ving Rhames

25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...
Dir. Matt Shakman · With Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich

A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
Dir. Antonio Campos · With Ezra Miller, Jeremy Allen White, Emory Cohen

A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
Dir. Luca Guadagnino · With Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield
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