Joe Robert Cole

What are Joe Robert Cole's films like?

Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Joe Robert Cole's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

• Disney+2 titles, browse their movies on this service
  • Black Panther (2018) · writer
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) · writer
• Hulu2 titles, browse their movies on this service
  • American Crime Story (2016) · writer, producer
  • Class of '09 (2023) · director, producer
• Netflix1 title, browse their movies on this service
  • All Day and a Night (2020) · director, writer

Subscription and free streaming for Joe Robert Cole's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

10 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

• Snoop (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)

  Writer
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  Class of '09(2023)

  Show 8 episodes · Director · Executive Producer

  Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all shows34^th
• 

  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever(2022)

  Screenplay

  Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films69^th
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  All Day and a Night(2020)

  Director · Screenplay

  Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films53^rd
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  Black Panther(2018)

  Writer

  Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films89^th
• 

  American Crime Story(2016)

  Show 10 episodes · Co-Producer · Writer

  Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows95^th
• White Dwarf (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

  as Joe
• 

  Amber Lake (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

  Director · Editor · Writer
• All the Sinners Bleed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

  Show 9 episodes · Director · Executive Producer
• Failsafe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

  Screenplay

Career shape

A full career of 10 titles, 7 of them dated from 2011 to 2023.

Biggest box office

Black Panther (2018)

$1.3B worldwide

Highest rated

Black Panther (2018)

Midcredits 89^th

Awards

1 major award from 5 major nominations, 2016–2023.

1. 2023
   • Writers Guild Award, nominated · Adapted Screenplay
2. 2019
   • Writers Guild Award, nominated · Adapted Screenplay
   • Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Adapted Screenplay
3. 2017
   • Writers Guild Award, won · Long Form - Adaptation
4. 2016
   • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Joe Robert Cole's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 69^th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 67^th percentile for acclaim.

Shape of the crowd

None of their 5 titles divides audiences: 2 are Crowd Pleasers.

122

• Universally Loved1
• Crowd Pleaser2
• Mixed2

Most loved · writer, producer

American Crime Story (2016)

Midcredits 95^th · 93% liked

Reviewers score the dialogue 53/100 and the plot and story 42/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Joe Robert Cole work with?

People who share at least 2 of Joe Robert Cole's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Ryan Coogler shares the most, 2.