Every Kevin Smith Movie, Ranked
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.
After the failure of Jersey Girl in 2004, Smith returned to more comfortable territory with his first true sequel, which returns the main characters (played again by Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson) from his 1994 debut and rejoins their lives a decade later. While critics didn't like it quite as much as the first Clerks, the sequel was Smith's best-reviewed film in nearly a decade as well as a modest box office success. After an aborted attempt in 2017, a third Clerks film is once again in development as of October 2019.
“What makes Clerks II both winning and (somewhat unexpectedly) moving is its fidelity to the original 'Clerks' ethic of hanging out, talking trash and refusing all worldly ambition.” —Dana Stevens, The New York Times
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