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Paul Bettany has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 6 rank in the Top 10%, led by A Beautiful Mind.
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Dogville
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Mubi · Included

WandaVision
2021 · Mini · Actor
Top 5%Disney+ · Included

Iron Man 3
2013 · Movie · Voice
Top 9%Disney+ · Included

Margin Call
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Uncle Frank
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Disney+ · Included

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, he made a groundbreaking discovery early in his career and stands on the brink of international acclaim. But as the handsome and arrogant Nash accepts secret work in cryptography, he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. His life takes a nightmarish turn and he soon finds himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris

Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.
Dir. Joe Russo, Anthony Russo · With Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, John Hurt

Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
Dir. Jac Schaeffer · With Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn

When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Dir. Shane Black · With Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
Dir. Peter Weir · With Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.
Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood · With Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson

Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. An entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm.
Dir. J.C. Chandor · With Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany

A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.
Dir. Brian Helgeland · With Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
Dir. Alan Ball · With Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.
Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée · With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.
Dir. Brian Helgeland · With Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Christopher Eccleston

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Alden Ehrenreich, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
Dir. Sean Mathias · With Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Brian Webber

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Dir. Paul McGuigan · With Paul Bettany, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis

Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court slowly ebbs away. Now, on the eve of his leaving the world of professional tennis, he’s granted a wild card, allowing him to play his final Wimbledon tournament…make that his final tournament ever.
Dir. Richard Loncraine · With Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill

American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.
Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · With Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany

The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Dir. Iain Softley · With Brendan Fraser, Sienna Guillory, Andy Serkis

In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
Dir. Paul McGuigan · With Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Tom Hardy

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Dir. Wally Pfister · With Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany

A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
Dir. Jon Amiel · With Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Martha West

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Dir. Saul Dibb · With Asa Butterfield, Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany
State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into his personal life, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake.
Dir. Richard Loncraine · With Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen

When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
Dir. Scott Stewart · With Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black

In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
Dir. Scott Stewart · With Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Lily Collins

Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Dir. Paul Bettany · With Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Mackie, Amy Hargreaves

When police discover a young girl brutally murdered, brothers Joe Fairburns and Chrissie Fairburns join their supervisor Robert to investigate main suspect Jason Buliegh, a local sex offender and social outcast. Forced to release Jason from police custody, the Fairburns take matters into their own hands in an attempt to coerce a confession.
Dir. Nick Murphy · With Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Mark Strong

An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
Dir. David Koepp · With Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor
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