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Tom Bower has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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Killshot
2008
Crime · Drama

In Her Skin
2009
Drama · Thriller

Owning Mahowny
2003
Crime · Drama

The Brave One
2007
Crime · Drama

Maria Full of Grace
2004
Drama · Thriller

Reservation Road
2007
Drama · Crime

Chopper
2000
Crime · Drama

Murder by Numbers
2002
Crime · Drama

We Have a Ghost
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Netflix · Included

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Netflix · Included

Out of the Furnace
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Prime Video · Included

13 Sins
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Prime Video · Included

Pollock
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

River's Edge
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 60%Prime Video · Included
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Dir. Alexandre Aja · With Aaron Stanford, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin

After Kevin finds a ghost named Ernest haunting his new home, he becomes an overnight social media sensation. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of the latter's past, they become targets of the CIA.
Dir. Christopher Landon · With David Harbour, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, Anthony Mackie

In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
Dir. Vince Gilligan · With Aaron Paul, Jesse Plemons, Charles Baker

Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
Dir. Scott Cooper · With Christian Bale, Zoe Saldaña, Woody Harrelson

Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.
Dir. Daniel Stamm · With Mark Webber, Devon Graye, Tom Bower

Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Dir. Casey Affleck · With Casey Affleck, Anna Pniowsky, Elisabeth Moss

When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.
Dir. Scott Cooper · With Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall

Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer

A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Dir. Scott Hicks · With Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Dir. Ed Harris · With Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower

A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
Dir. Tim Hunter · With Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
Dir. Ed Harris · With Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
Dir. Joseph Ruben · With James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been AWOL for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Dir. Carl Franklin · With Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel

Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they process who they've become as men, both because of their father and in spite of him.
Dir. Rodrigo García · With Ewan McGregor, Ethan Hawke, Maribel Verdú

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba
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