Ranking All Of Director Penny Marshall’s Movies
“What are Penny Marshall’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Marshall’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Penny Marshall and looked at their 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.
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The Top Film’s Of Penny Marshall
7 ) Renaissance Man (1994)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
Danny DeVito plays an advertising man who is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job; Teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.
5 ) Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.
5 ) The Preacher’s Wife (1996)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Rev. Biggs prays to God for help – and help arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.
4 ) Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
3 ) A League of Their Own (1992)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
As America’s stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) on their way to fame. Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell co-star as two of the sisters’ teammates.
2 ) Big (1988)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman. What will he find out about this strange world?
1 ) Awakenings (1990)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to “awaken” the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life’s simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
Penny Marshall’s Best Movies
Penny Marshall Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Awakenings (1990) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Big (1988) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| A League of Their Own (1992) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986) | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| The Preacher’s Wife (1996) | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| Renaissance Man (1994) | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
