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Tracie Thoms has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Devil Wears Prada.
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A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.
Dir. David Frankel · With Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Dir. Rian Johnson · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt

Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
Dir. Meredith Stiehm · With Kathryn Morris, Danny Pino, Jeremy Ratchford

Jaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye is the reluctant participant in conversations with various animal figurines — a wax lion, brass monkey, stuffed bear, and mounted fish, among others — which direct her via oblique instructions to help people in need.
Dir. Todd Holland, Bryan Fuller, Tim Minear · With Caroline Dhavernas, Tyron Leitso, Tracie Thoms

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson

Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts with Poppy Parnell, who risks everything—including her life—to pursue truth and justice.
Dir. Nichelle D. Tramble · With Octavia Spencer, Mekhi Phifer, David Lyons
After Sabrina is abducted, she finds herself in an underground lair, forced to do battle with other innocent women for the amusement of unseen spectators. Each of these reluctant warriors has something to lose, but only one will remain when the game is done.
Dir. Josh C. Waller · With Zoë Bell, Rebecca Marshall, Sherilyn Fenn
Follows disillusioned young family man John as a mysterious stranger, Richie takes him on a murder-fueled ride that transforms the weak-willed John into a desperate hero willing to go to any length to protect his family.
Dir. Chris Fisher · With Luke Wilson, Samuel L. Jackson, Leslie Bibb

A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.
Dir. Bette Gordon · With Julia Stiles, Josh Charles, Avan Jogia