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Denzel Washington Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Denzel Washington appears in the billed cast of 32 films in our catalog, from 1989 to 2024. Top of the list is Philadelphia ('1993), at 7.7 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.1. Biggest split between audiences and critics: John Q, 7.1 on IMDb against 30 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philadelphia '1993 | Drama | 7.7 | 81% | 66 | 7.7 | Jonathan Demme |
| 2 | Glory '1989 | Drama / War | 7.8 | 95% | 78 | 7.5 | Edward Zwick |
| 3 | Training Day '2001 | Action / Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 74% | 71 | 7.5 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 4 | American Gangster '2007 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | 81% | 76 | 7.6 | Ridley Scott |
| 5 | Remember the Titans '2000 | Drama | 7.8 | 72% | 48 | 7.7 | Boaz Yakin |
| 6 | Man on Fire '2004 | Action / Drama / Thriller | 7.7 | 39% | 47 | 7.5 | Tony Scott |
| 7 | Malcolm X '1992 | Drama | 7.7 | 89% | 73 | 7.5 | Spike Lee |
| 8 | Inside Man '2006 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 86% | 76 | 7.4 | Spike Lee |
| 9 | The Hurricane '1999 | Drama | 7.6 | 82% | 74 | 7.4 | Norman Jewison |
| 10 | Crimson Tide '1995 | Thriller / Action / Drama / War | 7.4 | 89% | 66 | 7.2 | Tony Scott |
| 11 | The Equalizer '2014 | Thriller / Action / Crime | 7.3 | 61% | 57 | 7.3 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 12 | Flight '2012 | Drama | 7.3 | 77% | 76 | 6.9 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 13 | Much Ado About Nothing '1993 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 90% | 80 | 7.0 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 14 | John Q '2002 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.1 | 26% | 30 | 7.2 | Nick Cassavetes |
| 15 | Déjà Vu '2006 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 55% | 59 | 6.9 | Tony Scott |
| 16 | Fallen '1998 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Fantasy | 7.0 | 43% | 52 | 6.8 | Gregory Hoblit |
| 17 | The Magnificent Seven '2016 | Action / Western | 6.9 | 64% | 54 | 6.5 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 18 | Safe House '2012 | Action / Thriller | 6.7 | 52% | 52 | 6.5 | Daniel Espinosa |
| 19 | Unstoppable '2010 | Action / Thriller | 6.8 | 87% | 69 | 6.6 | Tony Scott |
| 20 | The Book of Eli '2010 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 46% | 53 | 6.8 | Allen Hughes |
| 21 | He Got Game '1998 | Drama | 6.9 | 82% | 64 | 6.8 | Spike Lee |
| 22 | The Manchurian Candidate '2004 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 6.6 | 79% | 76 | 6.5 | Jonathan Demme |
| 23 | The Pelican Brief '1993 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 6.7 | 56% | 51 | 6.6 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 24 | The Bone Collector '1999 | Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 6.7 | 30% | 45 | 6.8 | Phillip Noyce |
| 25 | 2 Guns '2013 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 6.7 | 64% | 55 | 6.5 | Baltasar Kormákur |
| 26 | The Equalizer 2 '2018 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.7 | 52% | 50 | 6.8 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 27 | The Equalizer 3 '2023 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.8 | 76% | 58 | 7.3 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 28 | Courage Under Fire '1996 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery / War | 6.6 | 86% | 77 | 6.6 | Edward Zwick |
| 29 | The Siege '1998 | Drama / Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.4 | 44% | 53 | 6.3 | Edward Zwick |
| 30 | The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 '2009 | Crime / Thriller / Action | 6.4 | 51% | 55 | 6.4 | Tony Scott |
| 31 | Gladiator II '2024 | Action / Drama | 6.4 | 70% | 64 | 6.6 | Ridley Scott |
| 32 | The Little Things '2021 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 6.3 | 44% | 54 | 6.4 | John Lee Hancock |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.