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Genre: Action Thriller   Director: Paul Thomas Anderson   Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Tayl...

Genre: Crime Drama   Director: James Foley   Starring: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Christopher Penn, Tracey Walter...

Genre: Drama Director: Sean Penn Starring: Sean Penn, Dylan Penn Running Time: 108 minutes Synopsis: In 1992, Jennifer Vogel (Dylan Penn) l...

A parenting drama with legal sparring, I Am Sam is sentimental but also well-intentioned and brilliantly acted. Starbucks employee Sam Daws...

A politics-and-espionage thriller, Fair Game combines tense spy operations with the sordid world of dirty politics run by ideologues  In Wa...

A drama about life, death and atonement, 21 Grams deploys an unsettling but ultimately rewarding puzzle structure to enhance a story of thr...

A military academy drama, Taps explores themes of honour, duty and loyalty through a story of cadets who make a stand. The film is in eq...

A familiar crime drama with a good cast and quality execution, Carlito's Way suffers from an inability to break away from overexpose...

A lyrical World War Two drama, The Thin Red Line explores the psychology of soldierhood in the context of the Guadalcanal campaign. The ...

A juvenile penitentiary drama, Bad Boys is an uncompromising look at youth gone bad. A young Sean Penn supported by a dedicated cast ens...

Sean Penn joins the club of over-50 stars wading into mindless action territory. The Gunman at least offers a mildly interesting backstory...

A vivid and violent crime drama, Gangster Squad is gratifying on its own terms as a graphic romp, the strong cast enjoying the freedom to ...

A political thriller set at the United Nations, The Interpreter draws good inspiration from the real world of dictators engaged in dirty d...

All movies starring Sean Penn and reviewed on the Ace Black Movie Blog are linked below: Taps (1981) Fa...