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Paul Haggis has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Casino Royale.
2013
Documentary
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Dir. Martin Campbell · With Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
Dir. Paul Haggis · With Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Ty Simpkins

The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.
Dir. Alex Gibney · With Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Alex Gibney

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.
Dir. Paul Haggis · With Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach

A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Dir. Paul Haggis · With Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon

Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
Dir. Marc Forster · With Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric

Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.
Dir. Tony Goldwyn · With Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.
Dir. Albert S. Ruddy, Paul Haggis · With Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Sheree J. Wilson

An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Dir. Paul Haggis · With Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody
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