TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Samuel L. Jackson.
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Birthdate: December 21, 1948
Samuel L. Jackson
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1970s
No Reviews
1
1980s
2.6970
6
1990s
3.0706
43
2000s
3.0426
32
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.3877
3.3877
Samuel L. Jackson Movie Rankings
1
3.7646Goodfellas follows Irish-Italian Henry Hill as he rises from petty theft crimes to the top of the mobster ranks. The film explores the rites, rituals and rules of organized crime and how quickly your best friends can become your worst enemies. ...more about Goodfellas
DVD from $8.63
(15 sellers)
2
3.6905Pulp Fiction is a mix of crime fiction and dark satire. The film follows two professional hit men on the hunt for a briefcase. The story then tells the tale of several individuals and their relationship to crime boss Marsellus. ...more about Pulp Fiction
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actor
- Chlotrudis Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $12.34
(14 sellers)
3
3.5296A community of superheroes is forced to give up their crime fighting ways after a string of lawsuits. Several years later Mr. Incredible is desperate to see action again and begins secretly fighting bad guys, but when he walks into a superhero trap its up his family to save him. ...more about Incredibles
DVD from $12.99
(17 sellers)
4
3.2481
The Bride continues on her quest for revenge on the Deadly Viper Assassin Squad, friends that massacred her wedding party and left her for dead. With two down and three to go there is nothing that will stop her from achieving her final goal- to kill Bill. ...more about Kill Bill: Volume 2
DVD from $7.34
(15 sellers)
5
3.2097
On one of the hottest days of the year, in a small neighborhood in Brooklyn, tempers rise with the heat and come to a boil as a local pizzeria owner's racial prejudice finally crosses the line. ...more about Do The Right Thing
DVD from $5.99
(14 sellers)
6
3.1127
A career bank robber busts out of jail (Clooney) with the help of his buddy (Rhames) and kidnaps a US Marshal (Lopez) in the process. ...more about Out of Sight
DVD from $8.99
(9 sellers)
7
3.1070
In trying to save Alabama from her uncouth lifestyle, Clarence kills her boss and takes off with a suitcase assuming it’s her clothes. They soon find out they have stolen 5 million dollars worth of cocaine and are now on the run from the cops and the mob. ...more about True Romance
DVD from $5.89
(14 sellers)
8
3.0585
Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss' gun money on the airline she works for. ...more about Jackie Brown
Actor Awards
- Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $12.34
(14 sellers)
9
3.0365
Scientists have discovered a way to bring dinosaurs back from extinction. On a far off island is essentially a dinosaur zoo, but when a greedy, disgruntled employee deactivates the security, the creatures are able to roam free. ...more about Jurassic Park
DVD from $5.95
(14 sellers)
10
3.0217
A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrilling climax. ...more about Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
DVD from $8.37
(17 sellers)
11
2.9875
The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. ...more about Eve's Bayou
Actor Awards
- Acapulco Black Film Festival - Best Actor
- Image Awards - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $5.99
(10 sellers)
12
2.9656
Maverick negotiator Danny Roman (Jackson) is framed for embezzlement and the murder of his partner and best friend. Newly married and faced with an unjust prison sentence, Roman turns hostage-taker to smoke out the guilty ones in his own squad. ...more about Negotiator
Actor Awards
- Acapulco Black Film Festival - Best Actor
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actor - Action/Adventure
- Image Awards - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture
DVD from $6.76
(14 sellers)
13
2.9568
Michael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a half-way house for children without their parents. His father has become a street bum, but is still there if Fresh requires his 'street' knowledge. ...more about Fresh
DVD from $7.02
(13 sellers)
14
2.9533
This suspense thriller unfolds as the audience is introduced to David Dunn, played by Willis. Not only is he the sole survivor of a horrific train-crash that killed 131 people he doesn't have a scratch on him. ...more about Unbreakable
Actor Awards
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actor - Suspense
DVD from $8.38
(12 sellers)
15
2.9344
It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life. ...more about Coming to America
DVD from $9.99
(3 sellers)
16
2.9268
This First Episode follows the young years of Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader). The friendship of Obi-wan Kenobi, Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn are also central aspects. And the beginning of the rise to power of Senator Palpatine to Emperor. ...more about Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace
DVD from $10.91
(16 sellers)
17
2.9219
An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving ...more about Changing Lanes
Actor Awards
- Black Reel Awards - Theatrical - Best Actor
- Image Awards - Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
DVD from $2.10
(12 sellers)
18
2.9049
Ten years after the 'Phantom Menace' threatened the planet Naboo, Padmé Amidala is now a Senator representing her homeworld. A faction of political separatists, led by Count Dooku, attempts to assassinate her. ...more about Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones
DVD from $10.46
(15 sellers)
19
2.9009
Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in an ideal New England small town, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. ...more about Long Kiss Goodnight
Actor Awards
- Image Awards - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture
DVD from $6.39
(13 sellers)
20
2.8929
The sprit of a dead serial killer possesses the body of Father Karras, the priest thrown out of Regan's window 15 years after before. Each night the killer's soul possesses the body of an elderly person in the hospital and resumes its rampage. ...more about Exorcist III
DVD from $5.25
(14 sellers)
21
2.8272
A man calling himself "Simon" begins a reign of terror in the streets of New York: he threatens to detonate bombs around the city unless Detective John McClane cooperates in a game of "Simon Says". ...more about Die Hard: With a Vengeance
DVD from $11.03
(9 sellers)
22
2.8258
John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. ...more about Sydney
DVD from $10.23
(10 sellers)
23
2.8255
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA. ...more about Menace II Society
DVD from $6.00
(11 sellers)
24
2.8253
Francois Girard's epic follows the history of a violin as it passes over continents and through lives over the span of three centuries. ...more about Red Violin
DVD from $9.10
(10 sellers)
25
2.8249
Sydney (Hall) is a poker-faced professional gambler with a soft heart for a hard luck story. He plays guardian angel to unlucky John (Reilly) and a hooker, Clementine (Paltrow), whom he grows to love like family. ...more about Hard Eight
DVD from $10.23
(10 sellers)
26
2.8246
Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. ...more about Shaft
Actor Awards
- Black Reel Awards - Theatrical - Best Actor
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actor - Action
- Image Awards - Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
DVD from $1.96
(15 sellers)
27
2.8138
Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy's techno-thriller series, returns in the sequel to _The Hunt for Red October_. Ryan is on vacation in England when he spoils an assassination attempt on an important member of the Royal Family. ...more about Patriot Games
DVD from $5.64
(14 sellers)
28
2.8093
Adapted from the short story by Stephen King, a renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (John Cusack) believes only in what he can see with his own two eyes. ...more about 1408
DVD from $7.95
(17 sellers)
29
2.7735
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint. ...more about Time to Kill
Actor Awards
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actor - Suspense
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Image Awards - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
DVD from $4.00
(14 sellers)
30
2.7701
Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register, his girlfriend left him for his boss and is now pregnant, and he can't find work because of the incident. ...more about Trees Lounge
DVD from $9.99
(10 sellers)
31
2.7657
In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. ...more about Coach Carter
Actor Awards
- Black Movie Awards - Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Image Awards - Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
- Teen Choice Awards - Choice Movie Actor: Drama
DVD from $3.95
(19 sellers)
32
2.7514
In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the oponent. ...more about School Daze
DVD from $6.10
(12 sellers)
33
2.7369
4 Harlem teens, Q, Bishop, Raheem and Steel, are out skipping school one day when they find out an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar. After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, or juice. ...more about Juice
DVD from $1.96
(12 sellers)
34
2.7275
Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. ...more about Mo' Better Blues
DVD from $4.99
(16 sellers)
35
2.7193
High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students. ...more about One Eight Seven
DVD from $1.96
(9 sellers)
36
2.7026
Romulus is mentally ill, a troglodyte in a New York City park. He's also a gifted composer and the father of a city cop. On Valentine's Day, a young man freezes in a tree near his cave. ...more about Caveman's Valentine
DVD from $4.49
(10 sellers)
37
2.7017
Samual L Jackson plays a businessman who sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight brain cancer. ...more about Deep Blue Sea
DVD from $4.99
(12 sellers)
38
2.7002
A ruthless assassin unleashes a crate full of lethal snakes aboard a packed passenger jet over the Pacific Ocean in order to eliminate a witness in protective custody. The rookie pilot and frightened passengers must band together to survive. ...more about Snakes on a Plane
DVD from $8.24
(15 sellers)
39
2.6745
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse. ...more about Jungle Fever
Actor Awards
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $4.50
(15 sellers)
40
2.6636
An arrested drug kingpin is transported by a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team led by Jackson's character out of the city and into federal custody. Plans go awry when the kingpin offers $100 million to anyone who can free him. ...more about S.W.A.T.
Actor Awards
- Image Awards - Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
DVD from $3.95
(16 sellers)
41
2.6528
Frank Keller is a New York detective investigating a case of a serial killer who finds the victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers. Keller falls in love with Helen, the main suspect in the case. ...more about Sea of Love
DVD from $5.95
(10 sellers)
42
2.6479
Hayes Hodges finds his career aspirations dashed when he's wounded in Vietnam combat. ...more about Rules of Engagement
DVD from $2.10
(17 sellers)
43
2.6464
The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black man piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Some white men do not like this situation, and one day they assault him and spoil his brand new car. ...more about Ragtime
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
44
2.6291
Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so called friend's life is threatened. The job is for Little Junior Brown, a violent and powerful villain. ...more about Kiss of Death
DVD from $5.35
(11 sellers)
45
2.6183
When a struggling reporter encounters a former boxing champion living on the streets, his journey to uncover the truth becomes an opportunity to reexamine his own life. ...more about Resurrecting the Champ
- Not Available on DVD
46
2.5807
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. ...more about Fluke
DVD from $6.62
(9 sellers)
47
2.5230
An African-American baby, abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. Several years later, the baby's mother finds out her son is not dead, as she thought before and goes to court to get him back. ...more about Losing Isaiah
DVD from $7.01
(6 sellers)
48
2.4853
1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. ...more about Sphere
DVD from $4.49
(12 sellers)
49
2.4617
Lying half-dead in the street Rae is discovered by Lazarus. Determined to save a young woman that finds love in all the wrong places Lazarus chains her to the radiator and quotes the bible in the process redeeming both their souls. ...more about Black Snake Moan
DVD from $4.95
(16 sellers)
50
2.4321
Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) is a Washington Post journalist. ...more about Country of My Skull
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
51
2.4002
Vin Diesel plays Xander Cage. He's your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. ...more about XXX
DVD from $3.91
(18 sellers)
52
2.3561
When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. ...more about Great White Hype
DVD from $4.11
(11 sellers)
53
2.3519
Jessica Shepard is an on the rise police officer of San Francisco's esteemed police department, after having solved a big case about a serial killer. ...more about Twisted
DVD from $4.99
(14 sellers)
54
2.3234
Tom Hardy, an ex-Army Ranger turned DEA agent, is drawn into an ever-widening mystery surrounding the disappearance of the feared and often hated Sgt. ...more about Basic
DVD from $3.95
(12 sellers)
55
2.3177
Elmo McElroy (Jackson) is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state. ...more about Formula 51
DVD from $3.95
(11 sellers)
56
2.2968
When her son disappears and is believed to be dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping, creating a racial controversy. ...more about Freedomland
DVD from $3.95
(17 sellers)
57
2.2838
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. ...more about Amos & Andrew
DVD from $4.02
(10 sellers)
58
2.2791
NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons (Jackson), fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. ...more about xXx: State of the Union
DVD from $3.74
(17 sellers)
59
2.2224
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. ...more about Loaded Weapon 1
DVD from $4.75
(11 sellers)
61
2.1026
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation. ...more about White Sands
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
62
2.0696
No Good Deed, based on a short story entitled 'The House on Turk Street' by Dashiell Hammett, is about a police detective (Jack) who, while doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, stumbles upon a bizarre band of ...more about House on Turk Street
- Not Available on DVD
63
2.0435
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. ...more about New Age
- Not Available on DVD
64
2.0101
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP ...more about Betsy's Wedding
DVD from $6.39
(10 sellers)
65
1.9483
A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them. ...more about Jumper
DVD from $18.39
(5 sellers)
66
1.8081
Johnny Suede is a young man with an attitude and an immense pompadour, who wants to be a rock n' roll star like his idol Ricky Nelson. He has all the stylistic accouterments, except a pair of black suede shoes. ...more about Johnny Suede
DVD from $7.99
(1 sellers)
67
1.7940
A drama set against the backdrop of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, In My Country charts the lowest depths of pain and suffering and reveals the redeeming power of forgiveness and love. ...more about In My Country
DVD from $2.12
(12 sellers)
69
1.7183
Graham Marshall already celebrates his anxiously awaited promotion in an advertising company, when he learns that Roger Benham, one of his subordinates, will be promoted instead of him. ...more about Shock to the System
DVD from $5.99
(8 sellers)
70
1.7026
After a lengthy tour in Iraq four soldiers strive to re-adjust to "normal" life at home while struggling with the memories and nightmares of their service and one fateful mission. ...more about Home of the Brave
- Not Available on DVD
73
1.4200
Fun-loving Bobby is a mail boy in a big firm, but he has a trump card, his best friend Waymon, a "white" African-American who is almost a partner in the firm. ...more about Strictly Business
- Not Available on DVD
74
0.8904
A noir thriller about an auto theft police detective (Jackson) who tries to help a friend find his missing daughter. ...more about No Good Deed
DVD from $8.05
(9 sellers)
77
A beach runner and bookworm (Goldblum) has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming between him and his son. The ensuing E.S.P. ...more about Fathers & Sons
- Not Available on DVD
78
Caesar is a would-be rock star. But for now, he works at a pencil eraser factory. Soon he falls in love with the owner's daughter. In order to get her, he bets with the old man that he can make a hundred thousand dollars in six months. ...more about Hail Caesar
DVD from $7.03
(4 sellers)
82
In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. ...more about The Red Violin
- Not Available on DVD
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