Robert Rodriguez’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Robert Rodriguez has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by From Dusk Till Dawn.
Recurring themes

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
2010
Documentary

Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
Documentary

Return to Jurassic Park
2011
Documentary

Kedi
2017
Documentary

Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
2016
Documentary

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
2014
Documentary · TV Movie

Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017
Music · Documentary

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
Documentary · History

Planet Terror
2007 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 9%Peacock · Included

Desperado
1995 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 10%Netflix · Included

The Faculty
1998 · Movie · Director
Top 15%Paramount+ · Included

Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles
2021 · Movie · Director
Top 16%Disney+ · Included

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · Movie · Director
Top 43%Prime Video · Included

Hypnotic
2023 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 76%Peacock · Included

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel

When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller · With Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen

Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Marley Shelton

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Joaquim de Almeida

When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster

Fresh off the heels of her brand-new album, "Happier Than Ever," this cinematic concert experience features an intimate performance of every song in the album's sequential order – for the first and only time – from the stage of the legendary Hollywood Bowl.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez, Patrick Osborne · With Billie Eilish, Gustavo Dudamel, FINNEAS

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Dir. Christopher Kenneally · With Keanu Reeves, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Dir. Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez · With Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke

After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis · With Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp, Cheech Marin

A detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of reality-bending crimes.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, William Fichtner
When the children of the world’s greatest secret agents unwittingly help a powerful game developer unleash a computer virus that gives him control of all technology, they must become spies themselves to save their parents and the world.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Connor Esterson, Everly Carganilla, Zachary Levi

It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez, Alexandre Rockwell, Allison Anders, Quentin Tarantino · With Tim Roth, Jennifer Beals, David Proval
In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weirdness is celebrated, strangeness is special and beauty is embraced as more than meets the eye. After traveling to the other side of a mountain, Moxy and her UglyDoll friends discover Perfection -- a town where more conventional dolls receive training before entering the real world to find the love of a child.
Dir. Kelly Asbury · With Kelly Clarkson, Janelle Monáe, Blake Shelton

A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Jimmy Bennett, Jake Short, Kat Dennings
When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With YaYa Gosselin, Lyon Daniels, Andy Walken

Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Danny Trejo, Mel Gibson, Demián Bichir

The horror and crime thriller genres collide in this new original series from Robert Rodriguez, based on his cult grindhouse classic about bank-robbing brothers on the run, a lawman bent on bringing them to justice, the devout family caught in the cross-fire, and an ancient evil eager to feast on them all.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With D.J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, Eiza González

Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of several of their old colleagues forces the Cortez' return from retirement. What they didn't count on was Carmen and Juni joining the "family business."
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas

Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative menagerie of creatures. On this bizarre island, none of the Cortez's gadgets work and they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive and save the day.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas

Director · Writer
Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will show Max that even an ordinary kid has what it takes to be extraordinary.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Taylor Lautner, Taylor Dooley, Cayden Boyd
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Daryl Sabara, Ricardo Montalban, Alexa PenaVega

Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. Retired spy Marissa is called back into action, and to bond with her new stepchildren Rebecca and Cecil, she invites them along to stop the evil Timekeeper from taking over the world.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Rowan Blanchard

Writer
Set one hundred years ago, outlaw Johnny Madrid, after narrowly escaping death, goes on the run with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side.
Dir. P.J. Pesce · With Marco Leonardi, Michael Parks, Rebecca Gayheart
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