Every Kevin Smith Movie, Ranked

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – October 16, 2019

Updated September 13, 2022 to add Clerks III.

Over nearly 30 years, director, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster Kevin Smith has made 14 films*, many set in the same shared New Jersey universe inhabited by the characters Jay and Silent Bob (played by Jason Mewes and Smith, respectively). Though critics have certainly praised some of his films, "divisive" may be the best descriptor to apply to his work. In the gallery above, we rank those and all other movies directed by Smith in order by Metascore from worst-reviewed to best.

* Plus one NFT, KillRoy Was Here, which was not reviewed and is omitted from this gallery.

11 of 15 photo by Lionsgate/View Askew

62 #4: Dogma

Starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Salma Hayek, and Chris Rock, Smith's fourth film drew a lot of controversy ahead of its 1999 release for its "blasphemous" view of the Catholic Church (which is to be expected when you cast George Carlin as a cardinal). In spite of—or because of—that attention, Dogma wound up becoming the highest-grossing entry in Smith's Jersey-set "View Askewniverse" series.

“As funny as a lot of the film is, Dogma remains as frustratingly uneven as the rest of Smith's work.” —Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald

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