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Mike Starr has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including GoodFellas.
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The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Dir. Joel Coen · With Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.
Dir. Mick Jackson · With Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.
Dir. Peter Farrelly · With Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly

A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
Dir. Michael Schultz · With Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney

A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek, Viola Davis

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin O'Morrison

Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.
Dir. Kevin Smith · With Ben Affleck, Raquel Castro, Liv Tyler

Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive young waitress named Glory for a week. At first both are uneasy about the arrangement, but they eventually fall in love. However, the situation becomes complicated when Milo demands Glory back.
Dir. John McNaughton · With Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
Dir. Harold Ramis · With John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen
After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, Cathy Moriarty

A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
Dir. Stephen Milburn Anderson · With Sean Bean, Chris Hemsworth, Victoria Profeta

A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.
Dir. Bob Rafelson · With Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
Dir. Nia Vardalos · With Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Jason Mantzoukas
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.
Dir. Bill Bennett · With Sandra Bullock, Denis Leary, Yaphet Kotto

Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity. Issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior.
Dir. Mark Waters · With Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox

In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale