Cillian Murphy on the red carpet for OppenheimerImage via Abaca Press/INSTARimages
Daniel Craig and Cillian Murphy are currently working on a mysterious new movie, said to be a prison drama, directed by Damien Chazelle. This marks the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s first new feature since the divisive box-office bomb/future cult classic Babylon. Interestingly, Craig and Murphy both followed up their biggest career achievements with Netflix projects, with Craig turning to the Knives Out movies after concluding his run as James Bond and Murphy headlining Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man after winning an Oscar for his performance in Oppenheimer. Some years ago, the two also starred in World War II movies that both happen to be streaming on Paramount+ in the United States right now, before they’re removed from the platform soon.
Craig headlined Defiance, in which he played one of four Belarusian brothers who saved Jews during the war. Murphy, on the other hand, starred as a Czech soldier who assassinated a high-ranking Nazi official. The movie was released in 2016, eight years after the similarly themed Valkyrie, in which Tom Cruise played a German army officer who nearly assassinated Adolf Hitler and changed the course of human history. Murphy was joined by Jamie Dornan in the cast; the movie was directed by Sean Ellis as his follow-up to the acclaimed Filipino drama Metro Manila. Another movie based on the same operation — The Man with the Iron Heart — was released a year after Murphy’s thriller. It featured Jack O’Connell and Jack Reynor as the assassins.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
Here’s How Long You Have Left to Watch Cillian Murphy’s WWII Movie on Paramount+
We’re talking about the WWII drama Anthropoid, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival before being released theatrically. It wasn’t a major hit, grossing just $5 million against a reported budget of $9 million. The movie received mixed-to-positive reviews and is now sitting at a 67% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s consensus reads, “Anthropoid completes its mission rather unevenly but delivers a historically illuminating story with great performances to back it up.” The veteran critic Peter Bradshaw was impressed with Anthropoid, calling it an “intelligent, tough, and gripping movie.” You can watch it on Paramount+ before it’s removed, along with Defiance, on September 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.