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Forest Whitaker Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Forest Whitaker appears in the billed cast of 22 films in our catalog, from 1986 to 2025. Top of the list is Platoon ('1986), at 8.0 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Bloodsport, 6.8 on IMDb against 29 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Platoon '1986 | Drama / War / Action | 8.0 | 89% | 92 | 7.7 | Oliver Stone |
| 2 | Arrival '2016 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.9 | 94% | 81 | 7.6 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 3 | Good Morning, Vietnam '1987 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.3 | 90% | 67 | 7.3 | Barry Levinson |
| 4 | The Last King of Scotland '2006 | Drama | 7.6 | 87% | 74 | 7.4 | Kevin Macdonald |
| 5 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai '1999 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 84% | 68 | 7.3 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 6 | Southpaw '2015 | Action / Drama | 7.3 | 59% | 57 | 7.4 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 7 | The Crying Game '1992 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.2 | 95% | 90 | 6.8 | Neil Jordan |
| 8 | Phone Booth '2003 | Thriller / Crime | 7.1 | 72% | 56 | 6.9 | Joel Schumacher |
| 9 | The Butler '2013 | Drama | 7.2 | 72% | 65 | 7.3 | Lee Daniels |
| 10 | Panic Room '2002 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.8 | 76% | 65 | 6.8 | David Fincher |
| 11 | Bird '1988 | Drama / Musical | 7.1 | 81% | 78 | 6.8 | Clint Eastwood |
| 12 | Bloodsport '1988 | Action / Drama | 6.8 | 48% | 29 | 7.1 | Newt Arnold |
| 13 | Stakeout '1987 | Action / Comedy / Romance | 6.7 | 89% | 69 | 6.5 | John Badham |
| 14 | Street Kings '2008 | Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.8 | 37% | 55 | 6.7 | David Ayer |
| 15 | Where the Wild Things Are '2009 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.7 | 73% | 71 | 6.5 | Spike Jonze |
| 16 | Vantage Point '2008 | Drama / Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.6 | 34% | 40 | 6.4 | Pete Travis |
| 17 | Blown Away '1994 | Action | 6.3 | 39% | - | 6.2 | Stephen Hopkins |
| 18 | Phenomenon '1996 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 6.5 | 49% | 42 | 6.5 | Jon Turteltaub |
| 19 | Johnny Handsome '1989 | Crime / Drama | 6.1 | 60% | 60 | 6.3 | Walter Hill |
| 20 | Taken 3 '2014 | Thriller / Action | 6.0 | 13% | 26 | 6.3 | Olivier Megaton |
| 21 | Species '1995 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Action | 5.9 | 42% | 49 | 6.0 | Roger Donaldson |
| 22 | Havoc '2025 | Action / Crime / Thriller / Drama | 5.6 | 64% | 57 | 6.4 | Gareth Evans |
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.