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.
In addition to being one of the standouts of the golden age of indie cinema, Kevin Smith's no-budget, black-and-white 1994 debut—a comedy that spends a day with Quick Stop Groceries clerk Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and his slacker friend Randal (Jeff Anderson)—also marks Smith's on-screen debut as an actor. He plays pot dealer Silent Bob, a character who (along with his sidekick Jay, played by Jason Mewes) would go on to appear in over half of Smith's films. Shot in the actual store where Smith held a clerk job while he was filming, the financially successful Clerks received a sequel in 2006 and an animated television spinoff that aired briefly on ABC in 2000 before being canceled after two episodes.
“Rough around the edges, it's humor decidedly sophomoric in parts. But that's part of its charm.” —Amy Gamerman, The Wall Street Journal
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