Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2025 | This Ordinary Thing (2025) | Self |
| 2024 | The Luckiest Man in America (2025) | Bill Carruthers |
| 2023 | A Little Prayer (2025) | Bill |
| 2022 | Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) | Tom Milton |
| 2022 | Remember This (2022) | Jan Karski |
| 2021 | Nightmare Alley (2021) | Pete Krumbein |
| 2020 | Walkaway Joe (2020) | Joe Haley |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Dave |
| 2020 | The Devil Has a Name (2020) | Actor |
| 2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Admiral William Stenz |
| 2018 | Fast Color | Ellis |
| 2018 | An Interview with God | The Man |
| 2017 | November Criminals | Theo Schacht |
| 2016 | American Pastoral | Nathan Zuckerman |
| 2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Ty Burley |
| 2015 | Louder Than Bombs | Richard Weissman |
| 2015 | The Debt | Nathan |
| 2014 | Godzilla (2014) | Admiral William Stenz |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Noah Vosen |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Secretary of State William Seward |
| 2012 | Maladies | Delmar |
| 2012 | No God, No Master | William Flynn |
| 2012 | Hemingway et Gellhorn | John Dos Passos |
| 2010 | Temple Grandin | Dr. Carlock |
| 2010 | Howl | Ralph McIntosh |
| 2010 | The Tempest (2010) | King Alonso |
| 2010 | Odysseus in America | Narrator |
| 2009 | The Uninvited (2009) | Steven |
| 2009 | Cold Souls | Dr. Flintstein |
| 2008 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | Arthur Spiderwick |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Noah Vosen |
| 2007 | Fracture | D.A. Joe Lobruto |
| 2007 | My Blueberry Nights | Arnie |
| 2007 | Trumbo (2008) | Actor |
| 2007 | Racing Daylight | Henry Becker / Harry Stokes |
| 2006 | Heavens Fall | Judge James Horton |
| 2006 | The Notorious Bettie Page | Estes Kefauver |
| 2006 | We Are Marshall | Donald Dedmon |
| 2006 | Steel Toes | Danny Dunckelman |
| 2006 | The Sensation of Sight | Finn |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | Edward R. Murrow |
| 2005 | Missing In America | Henry |
| 2004 | Twisted (2004) | Dr. Melvin Frank |
| 2002 | Blue Car | Auster |
| 2001 | Ball in the House | Dr. Charlie |
| 2000 | Harrison's Flowers | Harrison Lloyd |
| 1999 | A Map Of The World | Howard Goodwin |
| 1999 | A Good Baby | Truman Lester |
| 1999 | Limbo (1999) | Joe Gastineau a.k.a. Jumpin' Joe Gastineau |
| 1999 | Le Songe d'une nuit d'été | Theseus |
| 1998 | Simon Birch | Rev. Russell |
| 1998 | With Friends Like These... | Armand Minetti |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Pierce Morehouse Patchett |
| 1997 | The Climb (1998) | Earl Himes |
| 1996 | PBIFF: Beyond the Call | Russell Cates |
| 1996 | Mother Night | Lieutenant Bernard B. O'Hare |
| 1995 | Home for the Holidays | Russell Terziak |
| 1995 | Dolores Claiborne | Joe St. George |
| 1994 | April One | John McCowan |
| 1994 | The River Wild (2023) | Tom Hartman |
| 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | Johnny |
| 1992 | A League of Their Own | Ira Lowenstein |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Erwin 'Whistler' Emory |
| 1992 | O Pioneers! | Carl Linstrum |
| 1992 | Passion Fish | Rennie |
| 1991 | City of Hope | Asteroid |
| 1990 | Memphis Belle | Col. Craig Harriman |
| 1988 | Eight Men Out | Eddie Cicotte |
| 1988 | Dominick and Eugene | Martin Chernak |
| 1988 | Call Me (2019) | Sam |
| 1987 | Matewan | Sid Hatfield |
| 1986 | At Close Range | Tony Pine |
| 1983 | Silkwood | Wesley |
| 1980 | Return of the Secaucus 7 | Ron Des Gargans |
