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Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Ronan Bennett has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Day of the Jackal.
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An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
Dir. Ronan Bennett · With Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Eleanor Matsuura
Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
Dir. Ronan Bennett · With Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Paddy Considine
Two seasoned drug dealers return to the gritty street of London, but their pursuit of money and power is threatened by a young and ruthless hustler.
Dir. Ronan Bennett · With Kane Robinson, Ashley Walters, Micheal Ward
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard
A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.
Dir. Ronan Bennett · With Ashley Walters, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Kane Robinson
London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.
Dir. Ronan Bennett, Daniel West · With Kit Harington, Mark Gatiss, Edward Holcroft
