Tom McCarthy films, ranked by your taste
Actor and director · 17 films on Boxlist
Known for Michael Clayton, Good Night, and Good Luck. and The Friend.
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Michael Clayton
2007 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBA law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBThe story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
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The Friend
2025 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBWhen a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.
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Meet the Parents
2000 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBGreg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good...
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Fair Game
2010 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBWife and mother Valerie Plame has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson, writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the sale of enriched...
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Duplicity
2009 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBTwo romantically-engaged corporate spies team up to manipulate a corporate race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and enable them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together.
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The Lovely Bones
2009 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBAfter being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
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2012
2009 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBDr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust...
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All the King's Men
2006 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBThe story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren.
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Pixels
2015 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDBVideo game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
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Directed by Tom McCarthy
Spotlight
2015 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDBThe true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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The Station Agent
2003 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDBWhen his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
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The Visitor
2007 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBA college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
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Win Win
2011 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBWhen down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother...
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Stillwater
2021 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBBill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences...
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
2020 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBAn 11-year old boy believes that he is the best detective in town and runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound polar bear.
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The Cobbler
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBMax Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see...
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