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 setting his first five films in the same shared "View Askewniverse" world, Smith finally tried something semi-new with this 2004 feature, his most expensive production to date. (It's only semi-new because it still stars Ben Affleck and George Carlin, and is still set mostly in New Jersey.) But the atypically straightforward and sentimental film—a rom-com/drama centering on a man trying to move on after a tragedy—was a failure at the box office and with critics, and Smith never attempted something like it again.
“The film's overall construction is faulty. Its dramatic situations ring consistently false, and the story is phony as anything off the Hollywood assembly line. And yet, it's sincere phony.” —Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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