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Tim Blake Nelson has 38 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Just Mercy.
Eulogy
2004
Comedy · Drama
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Netflix · Included
Detachment
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Old Henry
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Netflix · Included
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Netflix · Included
Ghosted
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Apple TV+ · Included
Holes
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Disney+ · Included
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Dir. Destin Daniel Cretton · With Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, Jamie Foxx
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Dir. Joel Coen · With George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
Dir. Mark Gustafson, Guillermo del Toro · With Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
Dir. Tony Kaye · With Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan
A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.
Dir. Potsy Ponciroli · With Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis
as Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")
Netflix · Included
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Tim Blake Nelson, Willie Watson, Clancy Brown
Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie—but then makes the shocking discovery that she's a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.
Dir. Dexter Fletcher · With Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody
After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where inmates are forced to dig holes all day in the hot desert sun as a form of character building. As he endures the brutal routine, Stanley begins to uncover a hidden truth behind the camp—one that connects to a dangerous secret and his family’s history.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Shia LaBeouf, Khleo Thomas, Sigourney Weaver
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "Fido" will rip your heart out.
Dir. Andrew Currie · With Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss, Dylan Baker
After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagues and the FBI, Banning begins a race against the clock to clear his name.
Dir. Ric Roman Waugh · With Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
Dir. Scott Z. Burns · With Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm
A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.
Dir. Ken Kwapis · With Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, Kristen Bell
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.
Dir. Michael Polish · With Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.
Dir. Louis Leterrier · With Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
Dir. Shawn Christensen · With Logan Lerman, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler
The eclectic residents of a small, picturesque island town must navigate a sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars, leading to a series of increasingly bad decisions which upend the once-peaceful community.
Dir. Potsy Ponciroli · With Himesh Patel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lily James
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
Dir. Michael Cuesta · With Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Sheen
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
Dir. Tommy Lee Jones · With Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer
To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
Dir. Mark Mylod · With Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Dir. Tim Blake Nelson · With David Arquette, Velizar Binev, Michael Stuhlbarg
The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
Dir. Anthony Mandler · With Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
Dir. Rob Minkoff · With Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Tim Blake Nelson
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
Dir. Tim Blake Nelson · With Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss
A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.
Dir. Bob Nelson · With Clive Owen, Jaeden Martell, Maria Bello
Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel comfortable with their extra pounds. But when tyrannical fitness guru Tony buys the camp, he puts the kids on a cruel regimen that goes too far. Sick of the endless weeks of "all work and no play," the kids stage a coup and reclaim their summer of fun.
Dir. Steven Brill · With David Goldman, Tom McGowan, Joseph Wayne Miller
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
Dir. Julius Onah · With Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez
Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant – and rebellious – operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Aaron Eckhart, Nina Dobrev, Clifton Collins Jr.
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.
Dir. Michael Traeger · With Jeff Bridges, Lauren Graham, Ted Danson
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.
Dir. James Cox · With Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Dir. Miguel Arteta · With Jennifer Aniston, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Gyllenhaal
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