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Stephen Gaghan has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Traffic.
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Traffic
2000 · Movie · Writer
Top 7%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Gold
2016 · Movie · Director
Top 40%Netflix · Included

Dolittle
2020 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 52%Prime Video · Free w/ ads

Rules of Engagement
2000 · Movie · Writer
Top 83%Paramount+ · Included

The Alamo
2004 · Movie · Writer
Top 95%Prime Video · Included

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Michael Douglas, Benicio del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
Dir. Stephen Gaghan · With Matthew McConaughey, Bryce Dallas Howard, Edgar Ramírez

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.
Dir. Stephen Gaghan · With Robert Downey Jr., Harry Collett, Michael Sheen

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
Dir. Stephen Gaghan · With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright

A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.
Dir. William Friedkin · With Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
Dir. Barbara Kopple · With Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Shiri Appleby
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.
Dir. Stephen Gaghan · With Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam