Ranking All Of Director Paul Greengrass’s Movies
“What are Paul Greengrass’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Greengrass’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Paul Greengrass and looked at his Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, Metacritic User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page. We will update the article if/when a new movie by Paul Greengrass is released. Although it probably won’t be immediate so the scores on each site have time to settle and aren’t overly influenced by the early, usually much more opinionated, users.
Happy Viewing!
The Top Film’s Of Paul Greengrass
13 ) Open Fire
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite David Martin is released once again from prison – he’s provocative and aggressive and, when he’s caught again during a burglary, he shoots one of the police officers, leading to a nation wide manhunt. Innocent filmmaker Steven Waldorf is subsequently shot as a suspect by Finch provoking a national scandal that rocks the police force.
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11 ) Resurrected
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 13
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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11 ) The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, which originally aired in Britain in 1999, was one of the most quietly incendiary made-for-TV productions of 2002. As he did for his acclaimed feature Bloody Sunday, writer-director Paul Greengrass based the story on actual events and filmed it cinéma vérité-style. The cast is equal to the task in bringing the case to wrenching life. We’re there in 1993 as racists viciously attack Stephen, an 18-year-old of Jamaican descent. We’re there as his parents (Hugh Quarshie and Marianne Jean-Baptiste) grieve their loss. And we’re there as they muster their resources, resolving to do whatever it takes to see his killers brought to justice. Although authorities attempted to bury the case, Stephen’s murder became a cause célèbre due to the two ordinary individuals who refused to rest until it was solved. Thanks to their efforts, crimes against minorities aren’t likely to be treated so lightly ever again.
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10 ) The One That Got Away
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition together the Scuds had to be stopped. SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero, under the command of Sgt. Andy McNab was tasked to destroy these weapons. Three of the SAS troopers were killed and four captured: Only one escaped – Cpl. Chris Ryan.
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9 ) The Fix
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbatt which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.
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8 ) Jason Bourne
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- Metacritc Critic Score: 7
- Metacritic User Score: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
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7 ) The Theory of Flight
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
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6 ) Green Zone
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
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4 ) United 93
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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4 ) The Bourne Supremacy
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
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3 ) Captain Phillips
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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2 ) The Bourne Ultimatum
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company’s best efforts to eradicate him.
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1 ) Bloody Sunday
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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Paul Greengrass’s Best Movies
Paul Greengrass Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Bloody Sunday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Captain Phillips | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| United 93 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| The Bourne Supremacy | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| Green Zone | 7 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 |
| The Theory of Flight | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| Jason Bourne | 6 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 8 |
| The Fix | 9 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 9 |
| The One That Got Away | 9 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 10 |
| Resurrected | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 11 |
| The Murder of Stephen Lawrence | 9 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 11 |
| Open Fire | 9 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 13 |
