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Noah Taylor has 24 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Predestination.
Hallam Foe
2007
Drama · Comedy

Predestination
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Almost Famous
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Paramount+ · Included

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Max · Included

Submarine
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Prime Video · Included

The Proposition
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Prime Video · Included

The Double
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Netflix · Included

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
Dir. Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig · With Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
Dir. Wes Anderson · With Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett

15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.
Dir. Richard Ayoade · With Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, Craig Roberts

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Dir. Scott Hicks · With Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor, Armin Mueller-Stahl
The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
Dir. Kriv Stenders · With Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Rohan Nichol

In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.
Dir. John Hillcoat · With Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston

A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
Dir. Richard Lowenstein · With Noah Taylor, Emily Hamilton, Romane Bohringer

An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
Dir. Richard Ayoade · With Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn

Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably named Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die -- one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: '... and then there were none.
With Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody, Aidan Turner

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz

A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Dir. Jorge Dorado · With Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Brian Cox

Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
Dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber · With Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
Dir. Ben Wheatley · With Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer

In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition, Selima is assigned to sleep with Truscott and teach him the native language and customs. But when they fall in love, both colonists and natives object to their plans to marry.
Dir. Guy Jenkin · With Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy
A bubbly little bumblebee rebels against the rules of the hive to make all kinds of friends—from violin-playing grasshoppers to a hornet named Sting.
Dir. Alexs Stadermann · With Coco Jack Gillies, Justine Clarke, Heather Mitchell

A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born from an angel and a devil, Jesse gives up everything to set the world straight with its creator.
Dir. Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg · With Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joseph Gilgun

A woman attracts the attention of a psychotic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.
Dir. Simon Rumley · With Amanda Fuller, Noah Taylor, Marc Senter

In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
Dir. Menno Meyjes · With John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski
John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty.
Dir. Luiso Berdejo · With Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero, Gattlin Griffith

Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient artifact which controls time before it falls into the wrong hands. As an extremely rare planetary alignment is about to occur for the first time in 5,000 years, the fearless tomb raider will have to team up with rival adventurers and sworn enemies to collect the pieces, while time is running out. But, in the end, who can harness the archaic talisman's unlimited power?
Dir. Simon West · With Angelina Jolie, Iain Glen, Daniel Craig

Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able to guide its holder to the mythical Pandora's Box. As the legendary artifact contains ancient mysteries of unfathomable power - said to contain one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, Lara is tasked by MI6 to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. With the aid of former Marine turned mercenary Terry Sheridan, she travels the world in pursuit of the precious item in a race against time; she must beat the unscrupulous Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bioterrorist, Jonathan Reiss, to it.
Dir. Jan de Bont · With Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds
Jennifer, an Australian girl on the run from her past, turns up in Amsterdam and, in a desperate attempt to blend in, joins a coach-load of tourists on a tour of Holland's old windmills. When the bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed beside a sinister windmill where a devil-worshiping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. As members of the group start to disappear, Jennifer learns that they all have something in common – a shared secret that seems to mark them all for doom.
Dir. Nick Jongerius · With Patrick Baladi, Ben Batt, Charlotte Beaumont
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