Best movies of Tim Blake Nelson

O Brother, Where Art Thou?(2000)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.



Holes(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.



Colossal(2016)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City, and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.



The Ballad of Buster Scruggs(2018)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.



The Hustle(2019)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 59

Two con women - one low rent and the other high class - team up to take down the men who have wronged them.



Old Henry(2021)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 63

An action western about a farmer who takes in an injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse comes for the money, he must decide who to trust. Defending a siege, he reveals a gunslinging talent calling his true identity into question.



Blue Caprice(2013)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 70

An abandoned boy is lured to America and drawn into the shadow of a dangerous father figure. Inspired by the real life events that led to the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks.



Hoot(2006)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.



Flypaper(2011)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at the same bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.



Cherish(2002)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 58

After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.



Come Early Morning(2006)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A 30-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.



American Violet(2008)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.



Child of God(2013)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard descends to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.



The Moguls(2005)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 40

Citizens of a small town, under the influence of a man in the midst of a mid-life crisis, come together to make an adult film.



As I Lay Dying(2013)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.



Deidra & Laney Rob a Train(2017)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 48

After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.



The Big White(2005)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 16

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.



A Foreign Affair(2003)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour to Russia to find and bring home a traditionally minded wife.



The Sound and the Fury(2014)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 27

A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the twentieth century.



The Institute(2017)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 19th century Baltimore, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute, and is subjected to bizarre and increasingly ...




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