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Paul Newman Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Paul Newman appears in the billed cast of 26 films in our catalog, from 1956 to 2006. Top of the list is The Sting ('1973), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Message in a Bottle, 6.3 on IMDb against 40 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sting '1973 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 8.2 | 93% | 83 | 8.0 | George Roy Hill |
| 2 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid '1969 | Western / Crime / Drama | 8.0 | 89% | 66 | 7.6 | George Roy Hill |
| 3 | Cool Hand Luke '1967 | Drama / Crime | 8.0 | 100% | 92 | 7.7 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| 4 | The Hustler '1961 | Drama / Romance | 7.9 | 94% | 90 | 7.7 | Robert Rossen |
| 5 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof '1958 | Drama | 7.9 | 97% | 84 | 7.6 | Richard Brooks |
| 6 | Hud '1963 | Drama / Western | 7.8 | 86% | 62 | 7.3 | Martin Ritt |
| 7 | The Verdict '1982 | Drama | 7.7 | 88% | 77 | 7.5 | Sidney Lumet |
| 8 | Road to Perdition '2002 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 82% | 72 | 7.4 | Sam Mendes |
| 9 | Somebody Up There Likes Me '1956 | Drama | 7.5 | 86% | - | 7.2 | Robert Wise |
| 10 | Sweet Bird of Youth '1962 | Drama | 7.1 | 74% | 53 | 6.7 | Richard Brooks |
| 11 | Hombre '1967 | Western / Drama | 7.4 | 94% | 80 | 7.1 | Martin Ritt |
| 12 | The Long, Hot Summer '1958 | Drama | 7.3 | 85% | - | 7.0 | Martin Ritt |
| 13 | Cars '2006 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | 75% | 73 | 7.1 | John Lasseter |
| 14 | Slap Shot '1977 | Comedy / Drama | 7.2 | 87% | 61 | 6.8 | George Roy Hill |
| 15 | The Hudsucker Proxy '1994 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.2 | 61% | 53 | 7.1 | Joel Coen |
| 16 | The Towering Inferno '1974 | Action / Drama / Thriller | 7.0 | 69% | 69 | 7.0 | John Guillermin |
| 17 | The Prize '1963 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 45% | - | 6.7 | Mark Robson |
| 18 | What a Way to Go! '1964 | Comedy / Romance | 6.9 | 31% | - | 7.1 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 19 | The Color of Money '1986 | Drama | 7.0 | 87% | 77 | 6.9 | Martin Scorsese |
| 20 | Exodus '1960 | Drama / War | 6.7 | 65% | 70 | 6.7 | Otto Preminger |
| 21 | Harper '1966 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 6.8 | 95% | 51 | 6.7 | Jack Smight |
| 22 | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean '1972 | Western / Comedy | 6.8 | 80% | 57 | 6.5 | John Huston |
| 23 | The Drowning Pool '1975 | Thriller / Mystery | 6.5 | 53% | 48 | 6.3 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| 24 | Torn Curtain '1966 | Thriller | 6.6 | 63% | 55 | 6.6 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 25 | Message in a Bottle '1999 | Romance / Drama | 6.3 | 32% | 40 | 6.3 | Luis Mandoki |
| 26 | The Left Handed Gun '1958 | Western | 6.4 | 83% | - | 6.0 | Arthur Penn |
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.