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Simon McBurney has 22 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
2016
Drama · Romance
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Max · Included
The Theory of Everything
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Netflix · Included
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Paramount+ · Included
Wolfwalkers
2020 · Movie · Voice
Top 5%Apple TV+ · Included
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Netflix · Included
Carnival Row
2019 · Series · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
Dir. David Yates · With Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Dir. James Wan · With Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Madison Wolfe
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.
Dir. James Marsh · With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.
Dir. Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart · With Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Dir. Robert Eggers · With Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Dir. Kevin Macdonald · With Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Simon McBurney
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
Dir. Scott Cooper · With Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and must find the real killer to clear his name.
Dir. Travis Beacham, René Echevarria · With Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, Simon McBurney
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Golshifteh Farahani
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Dir. Jonathan Demme · With Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Dir. Saul Dibb · With Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Hamish Linklater
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
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
Dir. Steve Bendelack · With Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Maxim Baldry
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.
Dir. Martha Fiennes · With Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
Dir. James Marsh · With Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis
In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he hopes to flip a Mondrian for millions. One of his assistants, Beth, is sleeping with Art's most acquisitive client, Bob Macclestone. Beth wants Bob to set her up in her own gallery, so she helps him go behind Art's back for the Mondrian. Bob's wife, Jean, sets her eye on a young conceptual artist, Jo, who lusts after Art's newest assistant, Paige. Meanwhile, self-absorbed videographer Elaine is chewing her way through friends and lovers looking to make it: if she'll throw Dewey, her agent, under the bus, Beth may give her a show. And the Mondrian? No honor among thieves.
Dir. Duncan Ward · With Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Heather Graham
As she reaches her mid-thirties and quits her lucrative job, singleton Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends. She begins to envy the security of her richer friends and, although their lives may seem easier, Olivia's friends have their problems too: screenwriters Christine and Patrick are unable to collaborate on their latest project, Jane and Aaron have lost the romance in their relationship, and Franny and Matt have difficulties handling the demands of parenthood.
Dir. Nicole Holofcener · With Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener
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