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Shea Whigham has 33 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Joker.
Dead Man Down
2013
Thriller · Action
Joker
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Paramount+ · Included
Take Shelter
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Prime Video · Included
Boardwalk Empire
2010 · Series · Actor
Top 11%Max · Included
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Starz · Included
American Primeval
2025 · Mini · Actor
Top 20%Netflix · Included
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Dir. Todd Phillips · With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Dir. Jeff Nichols · With Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
Dir. Terence Winter · With Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
Dir. Stefano Sollima · With Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Merced
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
Dir. Drew Goddard · With Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Lewis Pullman
A mother and son fleeing from their past form a found family while confronting a harsh landscape of freedom and cruelty in the American West.
Dir. Mark L. Smith · With Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets Tiffany Maxwell who offers to help him reconnect with his wife if he will do something very important for her in exchange.
Dir. David O. Russell · With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.
Dir. Goran Dukić · With Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham
When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him. And the two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel.
Dir. Justin Lin · With Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
Dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts · With Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman
When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. Along the way, they encounter an increasingly terrifying horde of parasites, and if any of them intend to survive, they'll have to outsmart the deadly organisms.
Dir. Toby Wilkins · With Jill Wagner, Charles Baker, Rachel Kerbs
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
Dir. David O. Russell · With Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams
After North Jackson High's long-time principal steps down to tend to his ailing wife, Neal Gamby and Lee Russell, the school's vice principals, are forced to put their mutual disdain aside and form an unholy alliance in order to sabotage the newly appointed principal, Dr. Belinda Brown.
Dir. Danny McBride, Jody Hill · With Danny McBride, Walton Goggins, Dale Dickey
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.
Dir. Brad Anderson · With Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Shea Whigham
The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.
Dir. John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle · With Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch, Rory Culkin
Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.
Dir. Charles Stone III · With Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, Shea Whigham
A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.
Dir. Jeremy Rush · With Frank Grillo, Caitlin Carmichael, Garret Dillahunt
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr.
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of a desperate man, Nick takes out a million dollar insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter. The problem? The policy doesn't take effect for 21 days. Nick knows they'll be lucky to be alive for twenty-one hours.
Dir. Peter Billingsley · With Vince Vaughn, Hailee Steinfeld, Bill Paxton
Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest case -- the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur -- but after two decades, the investigation remains open. Jack Jackson, a reporter desperate to save his reputation and career, is determined to find out why. In search of the truth, the two team up and unravel a growing web of institutional corruption and lies.
Dir. Brad Furman · With Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Toby Huss
A saga centered on the Tierneys, a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
Dir. Gavin O'Connor · With Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Colin Farrell
During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
Dir. William Oldroyd · With Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
Dir. Jonathan Liebesman · With Nick Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Shea Whigham
Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleaders. Sharp must now go undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach and move in with the young women.
Dir. Stephen Herek · With Tommy Lee Jones, Cedric the Entertainer, Christina Milian
Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.
Dir. Oz Rodríguez · With Jaden Michael, Gerald Jones, Gregory Díaz IV
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Dominic Purcell, Henry Cavill, Michael Fassbender
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
Dir. Ben Lewin · With Paul Rudd, Mark Strong, Sienna Miller
In a sleepy little mill town in North Carolina, Paul is the town Romeo. But when his best friend's sister returns home from boarding school, he finds himself falling for her innocent charm. In spite of her lack of experience and the violent protests of her brother, the two find themselves in a sweet, dreamy and all-consuming love.
Dir. David Gordon Green · With Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Shea Whigham
Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.
Dir. Jon Watts · With Kevin Bacon, James Freedson-Jackson, Hays Wellford
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