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John Malkovich Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
John Malkovich appears in the billed cast of 22 films in our catalog, from 1984 to 2020. Top of the list is Empire of the Sun ('1987), at 7.7 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Rounders, 7.3 on IMDb against 53 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Empire of the Sun '1987 | Drama / War | 7.7 | 75% | 62 | 7.5 | Steven Spielberg |
| 2 | Being John Malkovich '1999 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.7 | 94% | 90 | 7.4 | Spike Jonze |
| 3 | The Killing Fields '1984 | Drama / War | 7.8 | 91% | 76 | 7.5 | Roland Joffé |
| 4 | Dangerous Liaisons '1988 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 91% | 74 | 7.2 | Stephen Frears |
| 5 | Changeling '2008 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.7 | 61% | 63 | 7.6 | Clint Eastwood |
| 6 | Rounders '1998 | Drama / Crime | 7.3 | 63% | 53 | 7.0 | John Dahl |
| 7 | In the Line of Fire '1993 | Action / Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.2 | 96% | 74 | 7.0 | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 8 | Of Mice and Men '1992 | Drama | 7.4 | 97% | 73 | 7.2 | Gary Sinise |
| 9 | Deepwater Horizon '2016 | Drama / Action | 7.1 | 82% | 68 | 6.9 | Peter Berg |
| 10 | RED '2010 | Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller | 7.0 | 72% | 60 | 6.7 | Robert Schwentke |
| 11 | Burn After Reading '2008 | Comedy / Drama | 7.0 | 78% | 63 | 6.7 | Ethan Coen |
| 12 | Con Air '1997 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.9 | 59% | 52 | 6.8 | Simon West |
| 13 | Penguins of Madagascar '2014 | Animation / Comedy | 6.7 | 74% | 53 | 6.5 | Simon J. Smith |
| 14 | Warm Bodies '2013 | Horror / Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 81% | 60 | 6.5 | Jonathan Levine |
| 15 | RED 2 '2013 | Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller | 6.6 | 44% | 47 | 6.5 | Dean Parisot |
| 16 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc '1999 | Drama / Action / War | 6.4 | 32% | 54 | 6.4 | Luc Besson |
| 17 | Bird Box '2018 | Horror / Thriller / Drama | 6.6 | 64% | 51 | 6.8 | Susanne Bier |
| 18 | Beowulf '2007 | Action / Animation | 6.3 | 71% | 59 | 5.9 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 19 | The Man in the Iron Mask '1998 | Action / Drama | 6.5 | 32% | 49 | 6.7 | Randall Wallace |
| 20 | Johnny English '2003 | Action / Comedy | 6.3 | 33% | 51 | 6.3 | Peter Howitt |
| 21 | Eragon '2006 | Fantasy / Action | 5.1 | - | 38 | 5.1 | Stefen Fangmeier |
| 22 | Ava '2020 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 5.5 | 18% | 39 | 5.8 | Tate Taylor |
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.