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Movies Like The Critic

If you liked The Critic (2018), a drama and thriller movie directed by Stella Velon, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1You Don't Know Jack

    You Don't Know Jack (2010)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.

  2. 2Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  3. 3Before I Fall

    Before I Fall (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…

  4. 4The Truth About Emanuel

    The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

  5. 5The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  6. 6Reminiscence

    Reminiscence (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller

    Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life…

  7. 7Helen

    Helen (2009)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her…

  8. 8Luckiest Girl Alive

    Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller

    A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

  9. 9Girl, Interrupted

    Girl, Interrupted (1999)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the…

  10. 10Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

  11. 11The Double

    The Double (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller and drama

    An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

  12. 12Puncture

    Puncture (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Based on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on…

  13. 13Stay

    Stay (2005)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama

    Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…

  14. 14Blonde

    Blonde (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore…

  15. 15Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

    Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.

  16. 16The Experiment

    The Experiment (2010)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and drama

    20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

  17. 17Maps to the Stars

    Maps to the Stars (2014)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family chase celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Their fragile ecosystem is disrupted by the arrival…

  18. 18A Girl Like Her

    A Girl Like Her (2015)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and…

  19. 19Frailty

    Frailty (2002)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and thriller

    A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

  20. 20The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

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