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An American filmmaker from Haiku, on Maui, who moved from small-scale drama into the largest films there are — Short Term 12, The Glass Castle and Just Mercy, then Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: Brand New Day. He has run his own production company, Hisako, since 2024.
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regular collaborators
Destin Daniel Cretton directed 6 films in the CinePixo library between 2013 and 2026. Credited here also as a screenwriter. Works most often with Brie Larson — 4 films together here. Start with Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026), reviewed here.
1 of 6 films reviewed
Average
3.75
Best received
Spider-Man: Brand New Day3.85 films have no review here yet — the average only covers what has been written.
Spider-Man: Brand New DayDirector3.81 review2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten RingsDirector · Screenplayunreviewed2019
Just MercyDirector · Screenplayunreviewed2017
The ShackScreenplayunreviewed2017
The Glass CastleDirector · Screenplayunreviewed2013
Short Term 12Director · Screenplayunreviewed
Tom Holland’s new Spider-Man film reached $1.67 billion worldwide in ten days. The scale of the record matters, but so do the conditions that persuaded audiences to choose theaters again.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day reached $1.67 billion worldwide in ten days while The Odyssey became Christopher Nolan's biggest film. Together, they show both the strength and the narrowness of cinema's 2026 recovery.
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The director of Spider-Man: Brand New Day has pointed to Tom Holland and Zendaya's screen chemistry. The history behind that observation is a franchise that has kept returning to Peter Parker and MJ as a pair of performers, not merely characters.
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