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Samuel L. Jackson Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Samuel L. Jackson appears in the billed cast of 44 films in our catalog, from 1987 to 2024. Top of the list is Pulp Fiction ('1994), at 8.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.8. Biggest split between audiences and critics: National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, 6.2 on IMDb against 30 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pulp Fiction '1994 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 8.8 | 92% | 95 | 8.5 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2 | Django Unchained '2012 | Drama / Western | 8.5 | 87% | 81 | 8.2 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 3 | The Incredibles '2004 | Action / Animation | 8.0 | - | 90 | 7.7 | Brad Bird |
| 4 | The Hateful Eight '2015 | Drama / Mystery / Western | 7.8 | 74% | 68 | 7.8 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 5 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier '2014 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 90% | 70 | 7.7 | Joe Russo |
| 6 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith '2005 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 79% | 68 | 7.5 | George Lucas |
| 7 | Kingsman: The Secret Service '2015 | Crime / Comedy / Action | 7.7 | 75% | 60 | 7.6 | Matthew Vaughn |
| 8 | Die Hard: With a Vengeance '1995 | Action / Thriller | 7.6 | 60% | 58 | 7.3 | John McTiernan |
| 9 | Jackie Brown '1997 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 88% | 62 | 7.4 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 10 | A Time to Kill '1996 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 66% | 53 | 7.4 | Joel Schumacher |
| 11 | Menace II Society '1993 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.5 | 84% | 76 | 7.5 | Albert Hughes |
| 12 | Unbreakable '2000 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 7.3 | 71% | 62 | 7.1 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 13 | Spider-Man: Far From Home '2019 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 91% | 69 | 7.4 | Jon Watts |
| 14 | The Negotiator '1998 | Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.3 | - | 62 | 7.1 | F. Gary Gray |
| 15 | Eddie Murphy Raw '1987 | Comedy | 7.6 | 79% | 54 | 7.3 | Robert Townsend |
| 16 | Coming to America '1988 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 71% | 47 | 6.9 | John Landis |
| 17 | Coach Carter '2005 | Drama | 7.4 | 63% | 57 | 7.6 | Thomas Carter |
| 18 | Hard Eight '1997 | Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 82% | 78 | 6.8 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 19 | The Hitman's Bodyguard '2017 | Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller | 6.9 | 44% | 47 | 6.9 | Patrick Hughes |
| 20 | 1408 '2007 | Horror / Mystery | 6.8 | 80% | 64 | 6.7 | Mikael Håfström |
| 21 | The Banker '2020 | Drama | 7.3 | 78% | 59 | 7.6 | George Nolfi |
| 22 | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children '2016 | Fantasy | 6.7 | 65% | 57 | 6.8 | Tim Burton |
| 23 | The Long Kiss Goodnight '1996 | Crime / Action / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 67% | 43 | 6.6 | Renny Harlin |
| 24 | Captain Marvel '2019 | Action / Sci-Fi | 6.7 | 79% | 64 | 6.8 | Ryan Fleck |
| 25 | Kong: Skull Island '2017 | Action / Fantasy | 6.7 | 75% | 62 | 6.6 | Jordan Vogt-Roberts |
| 26 | One Eight Seven '1997 | Drama / Thriller | 6.6 | 31% | 41 | 6.7 | Kevin Reynolds |
| 27 | Glass '2019 | Thriller / Drama / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | 37% | 43 | 6.7 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 28 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones '2002 | Action / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | 62% | 54 | 6.6 | George Lucas |
| 29 | Turbo '2013 | Animation | 6.4 | 68% | 58 | 6.3 | David Soren |
| 30 | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 '1993 | Comedy / Crime / Action | 6.2 | 21% | 30 | 6.1 | Gene Quintano |
| 31 | The Legend of Tarzan '2016 | Fantasy / Action | 6.2 | 36% | 44 | 5.9 | David Yates |
| 32 | S.W.A.T. '2003 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.1 | 48% | 45 | 6.2 | Clark Johnson |
| 33 | xXx '2002 | Action / Thriller / Crime / Drama | 5.9 | 48% | 48 | 6.0 | Rob Cohen |
| 34 | Sphere '1998 | Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller | 6.1 | 12% | 35 | 6.1 | Barry Levinson |
| 35 | Deep Blue Sea '1999 | Action / Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.0 | 60% | 54 | 6.0 | Renny Harlin |
| 36 | Jumper '2008 | Action / Sci-Fi | 6.1 | 15% | 35 | 6.2 | Doug Liman |
| 37 | The Protégé '2021 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.1 | - | 48 | 6.5 | Martin Campbell |
| 38 | xXx: Return of Xander Cage '2017 | Action / Crime | 5.2 | 46% | 42 | 6.1 | D.J. Caruso |
| 39 | Snakes on a Plane '2006 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 5.5 | 69% | 58 | 5.5 | David R. Ellis |
| 40 | Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard '2021 | Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller | 6.1 | 25% | 32 | 6.6 | Patrick Hughes |
| 41 | The Garfield Movie '2024 | Animation / Comedy | 5.7 | 36% | 31 | 6.9 | Mark Dindal |
| 42 | xXx: State of the Union '2005 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 4.5 | 17% | 37 | 5.1 | Lee Tamahori |
| 43 | The Marvels '2023 | Sci-Fi / Action | 5.4 | 63% | 50 | 5.9 | Nia DaCosta |
| 44 | Spiral: From the Book of Saw '2021 | Horror / Mystery | 5.2 | 39% | 40 | 5.9 | Darren Lynn Bousman |
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.