Sean Penn Archives

The Game (1997)

Rating: ★★

Nov 18, 2007Reality Games

David Fincher film in which Michael Douglas is wound into a conspiracy that makes him doubt everything around him. Fincher creates paranoia but the story eventually becomes an improbably contrived house of cards

Director: David Fincher

Actors: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, …

Category: Fantasy

18 November 20072 March 2026 by Roog

The Weight of Water (2000)

Rating: ★★

Apr 26, 2001Historical Murder Mystery

One of Kathryn Bigelow's less successful films, an adaptation of an Anita Shreve historical murder mystery that tells a story in two different time periods

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Actors: Catherine McCormack, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, …

Category: Horror

26 April 20018 June 2025 by Roog

It’s All About Love (2003)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 20, 2016Near-Future/Reconciliation Drama

An SF outing from Thomas Vinterberg that proved a flop with audiences. It is never satisfying as an SF film but you cannot deny it is directed with a beautiful and sophisticated cool that draws you inside it

Director: Thomas Vinterberg

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Douglas Henshall, Sean Penn, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 January 20165 May 2026 by Roog

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 25, 2006True Life Psycho

Film in which Sean Penn plays the real-life figure of a man frustrated by the pressures of everyday life who snaps and attempts to fly a plane into the White House

Director: Niels Mueller

Actors: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, …

Category: Horror

25 February 200620 May 2021 by Roog

The Tree of Life (2011)

Rating: ★★★★½

Jun 4, 2011Lost American Childhood/The Evolution of Life on Earth

Terrence Malick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, maybe the best work yet about the great Lost American Childhood yet - a film that doesn't seem to be about anything but has far more to say than almost all other multiplex films

Director: Terrence Malick

Actors: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, …

Category: Fantasy

4 June 201123 September 2025 by Roog

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Rating: ★★

Jan 12, 2014Daydreamer's Fantasies

Ben Stiller's remake of the unfunny Danny Kaye vehicle about an impractical daydreamer has no more depth than an inspirational postcard and takes a long time to deliver it

Director: Ben Stiller

Actors: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Sean Penn, …

Category: Fantasy

12 January 201421 March 2026 by Roog

Angry Birds (2016)

Rating: ★★

Jun 24, 2016Animation/Videogame Adaptation

A film based on a mobile app surely counts as a world first. Mostly this is the equivalent of switching one's brain off and spending an hour-and-a-half watching cartoons for the single digit age group

Director: Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly

Actors: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, …

Category: Fantasy

24 June 201618 November 2025 by Roog