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Sean Penn Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Sean Penn appears in the billed cast of 21 films in our catalog, from 1981 to 2025. Top of the list is Carlito's Way ('1993), at 7.9 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: I Am Sam, 7.6 on IMDb against 28 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carlito's Way '1993 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 84% | 66 | 7.8 | Brian De Palma |
| 2 | Mystic River '2003 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Crime | 7.9 | 89% | 84 | 7.7 | Clint Eastwood |
| 3 | The Game '1997 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.7 | 77% | 63 | 7.6 | David Fincher |
| 4 | One Battle After Another '2025 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 95 | 7.3 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 5 | The Thin Red Line '1998 | Drama / War | 7.6 | 80% | 78 | 7.4 | Terrence Malick |
| 6 | 21 Grams '2003 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.6 | 80% | 70 | 7.3 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 7 | I Am Sam '2001 | Drama | 7.6 | 35% | 28 | 7.6 | Jessie Nelson |
| 8 | Dead Man Walking '1995 | Drama | 7.5 | 97% | 80 | 7.3 | Tim Robbins |
| 9 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty '2013 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.3 | 52% | 54 | 7.2 | Ben Stiller |
| 10 | Milk '2008 | Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 83 | 7.2 | Gus Van Sant |
| 11 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High '1982 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.1 | 78% | 61 | 6.8 | Amy Heckerling |
| 12 | Bad Boys '1983 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.2 | 89% | 53 | 7.0 | Rick Rosenthal |
| 13 | Taps '1981 | Drama | 6.8 | 69% | 49 | 6.7 | Harold Becker |
| 14 | Casualties of War '1989 | Drama / War | 7.1 | 82% | 75 | 7.2 | Brian De Palma |
| 15 | Licorice Pizza '2021 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 90% | 90 | 6.9 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 16 | At Close Range '1986 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.9 | 88% | 67 | 6.8 | James Foley |
| 17 | The Tree of Life '2011 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.8 | 86% | 85 | 6.7 | Terrence Malick |
| 18 | Gangster Squad '2013 | Crime / Drama / Action / Thriller | 6.7 | 30% | 40 | 6.4 | Ruben Fleischer |
| 19 | U Turn '1997 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Romance | 6.7 | 59% | 54 | 6.6 | Oliver Stone |
| 20 | Colors '1988 | Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.7 | 76% | 66 | 6.5 | Dennis Hopper |
| 21 | We're No Angels '1989 | Comedy / Crime | 6.1 | 48% | 48 | 6.2 | Neil Jordan |
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.