Sam Rockwell 10 Best Roles Ranked According To Rotten Tomatoes

Sam Rockwell: 10 Best Roles, Ranked According To Rotten Tomatoes

Sam Rockwell is a seasoned, talented actor in contemporary Hollywood. And, these are his 10 best roles, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

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Sam Rockwell has, over the years, proven to be one of Hollywood’s best and most versatile actors. Rockwell has picked up two Academy Award nominations, winning one in his career. He has an equal number of Golden Globes nominations and wins and was also honored by his peers in the Screen Actor’s Guild with six nominations and two wins.

Rockwell has done everything from science fiction movies to action thrillers to comedies and even superhero movies over his career. All along the way, Rockwell has picked up acclaim and honors, and here is a look at the 10 best Sam Rockwell movies based on Rotten Tomatoes. Only movies where Rockwell played a significant rule are included.

10 THE GREEN MILE (1999) – 78%

After Frank Darabont impressed critics and fans everywhere with his adaptation of the Stephen King story, The Shawshank Redemption, he took on another King prison epic with the serial books, The Green Mile. The film starred Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey, a man convicted of a murder he never committed, and Tom Cruise as the guard in charge of the death penalty ward of the prison.

Sam Rockwell turned heads as another man on death row named Wild Bill Wharton. Unlike John Coffey, Wharton was an evil man and turned out to be the real murderer of the children Coffey was convicted of killing.

9 JOJO RABBIT (2019) – 79%

In 2019, Taika Waititi directed the brilliant movie Jojo Rabbit. The film showed the German’s side in World War II from the point-of-view of a 10-year-old child who was indoctrinated by the propaganda that made Adolf Hitler a hero to the children and people of Germany.

Sam Rockwell played what looked to be a small role, but ended up as a pivotal and important role in the film. He started as a former military man who was deemed unworthy of combat due to losing an eye and was now tasked in working with children, including young Jojo.

8 CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (2003) – 79%

In one of Sam Rockwell’s starring roles, he took on the fictional story of a real-life celebrity in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. In this George Clooney-directed movie, Rockwell took on the role of Chuck Barris. This was the former game show host who claimed in an unauthorized biography to be a spy.

Clooney took on the idea of Barris as a spy and told the story of how he was used as an assassin by the CIA under the guise as a television celebrity. Chuck Barris helped produce the movie, making sure it told the story in his way.

7 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (2012) – 82%

In 2012, Martin McDonaugh directed his dark comedy, Seven Psychopaths, with an all-star cast. Colin Farrell is Marty, a writer who is trying to finish a screenplay called Seven Psychopaths. Sam Rockwell stars as his best friend, Billy, a conman who kidnaps dogs and then collects the rewards for their return.

Billy gets Marty in trouble when he places an ad for real psychopaths to contact him for interviews, telling their stories and then makes it worse when he steals a dog belonging to a local gangster’s girlfriend.

6 MATCHSTICK MEN (2003) – 82%

Ridley Scott directed the black comedy Matchstick Men in 2003. The cast was eclectic as it gets, with Nicolas Cage and Sam Rockwell starring as con artists. Cage is Roy Walker, who retired after suffering a panic attack and is seeing a therapist.

Rockwell is Frank Mercer, Roy’s former partner, who convinces him to pull off one more long-con against an arrogant businessman while Roy tries to connect with a daughter he never knew. However, there are double teams, and the entire movie is one long-con.

5 THE WAY, WAY BACK (2013) – 83%

Sam Rockwell starred in the 2013 independent film The Way, Way Back. Directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, the movie is a comedy-of-age film about a 14-year-old boy who vacations in Cape Cod with his mom and her wealthy, abusive boyfriend.

Sam Rockwell stars as Owen, an employee at the local water park who takes young Duncan under his wing. He becomes someone that the boy can talk to at the only place that he said he has ever felt comfortable. With an 83% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, it earned Rockwell a Critics Choice nomination.

4 GALAXY QUEST (1999) – 89%

Galaxy Quest might be a parody, but it remains one of Star Trek fans’ favorite movies, showing how lovingly constructed the film is. The film has an all-star cast including Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and Sam Rockwell.

While it was only a modest success at the time of its release, it has become a massive cult favorite over the years. Rockwell stars as Guy Fleegman, the man who handles the fictional cast at conventions who also played a “red shirt” who died in one episode but has a chance to be more in real life.

3 THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (2017) – 90%

In 2017, Sam Rockwell played a character that he has specialized over his career — an angry southern man who isn’t as smart as he thinks he is. In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Frances McDormand stars as a mother who put up three giant billboards to point out the police haven’t found who raped and murdered her daughter.

While Woody Harrelson is the target of her anger, Sam Rockwell is the angry deputy, Jason, who wants to put her in her place. Jason is a bigot who realizes his anger issues are holding him back, and while he decides to better himself, karma bites him hard.

2 MOON (2009) – 90%

The best performance of Sam Rockwell’s career in a movie where he was the star was Duncan Jones’ Moon. This was impressive since Rockwell was the only person in the movie for the majority of its running time, and he only had himself to play off of. The film is about a sole astronaut at a station on the far side of the moon.

Nearing the end of his three-year tenure, he begins to see strange things happen and ends up in a battle against a dark version of himself. Rockwell earned several awards from critics’ organizations, although the Oscars ignored him.

1 FROST/NIXON (2008) – 93%

Based on the play by the same name, Ron Howard directed Frost/Nixon in 2008, a re-telling of the classic interview between journalist David Frost and former U.S. President Richard Nixon. The main two men in this film were Martin Sheen as Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon, the film, picking up five Oscar nominations without winning one.

Sam Rockwell starred in the film as James Reston Jr., an investigator that Frost hired to help him prepare for the interview. It was Reston that pushed Frost to encourage a confession from Nixon in the interview with evidence he uncovered.

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