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Nia Long has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Michael.
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Boyz n the Hood
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Banker
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Apple TV+ · Included

Missing
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Hulu · Included

Stigmata
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Prime Video · Included

Third Watch
1999 · Series · Actor
Top 30%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Look Both Ways
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Netflix · Included

The story of Michael Jackson, one of the most influential artists the world has ever known, and his life beyond the music. His journey from the discovery of his extraordinary talent as the lead of the Jackson Five, to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fueled a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world, highlighting both his life off-stage and some of the most iconic performances from his early solo career.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Jaafar Jackson, Colman Domingo, Nia Long

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Dir. Mitja Okorn · With Jaden Smith, Cara Delevingne, Cuba Gooding Jr.

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...
Dir. John Singleton · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
Dir. George Nolfi · With Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Dir. F. Gary Gray · With Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
Dir. Will Merrick, Nicholas D. Johnson · With Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung

A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.
Dir. Rupert Wainwright · With Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce

The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
Dir. John Wells, Edward Allen Bernero · With Coby Bell, Nia Long, Molly Price

On the night of her college graduation, Natalie's life splits into parallel realities after she takes a pregnancy test. What will life and love bring?
Dir. Wanuri Kahiu · With Lili Reinhart, Danny Ramirez, David Corenswet

When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Dir. Malcolm D. Lee · With Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Morris Chestnut

A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Dir. Mennan Yapo · With Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Courtney Taylor Burness

A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
Dir. Ben Younger · With Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long

The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.
Dir. Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, Anne Heche · With Vanessa Redgrave, Michelle Williams, Ellen DeGeneres

After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based on the lives and loves of his tight-knit group of friends. Harper is set to be best man at his friend Lance's wedding, and all his friends will be in attendance. When an advance copy of the book makes its way into the hands of his ex-flame, Jordan, Harper attempts to keep it under wraps.
Dir. Malcolm D. Lee · With Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long

Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly great white sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.
Dir. Johannes Roberts · With Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju

Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of likes being a gangster.
Dir. Michael Rymer · With Omar Epps, LL Cool J, Nia Long
After a brief encounter with David Hammond, an old college friend, successful lawyer Ellie Warren tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus. But she finds herself caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse when the encounter escalates into an obsession that jeopardizes everyone she loves.
Dir. Peter Sullivan · With Nia Long, Omar Epps, Stephen Bishop
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
Dir. Charles Shyer · With Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Omar Epps
An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of the black community.
Dir. Jeff Stilson · With Maya Angelou, Chris Rock, Nia Long

The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend, as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the street.
Dir. Michael Larnell · With Chanté Adams, Mahershala Ali, Nia Long
A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
Dir. Tyler Perry · With Amy Smart, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Nia Long
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that wasn't bad enough, he's white.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
Dir. Steve Carr · With Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley
The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Years Eve. When Suzanne's work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to the city from Portland, Oregon. The kids, who have never liked any of the men their mom dates, are determined to turn the trip into a nightmare for Nick.
Dir. Brian Levant · With Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen

A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.
Dir. Kenya Barris · With Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.
Dir. Raja Gosnell · With Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti
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