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.
Arriving in 2022 a full 16 years after the previous installment, the second sequel to Smith's beloved debut film Clerks returns Brian O'Halloran as Dante and Jeff Anderson as Randal in the present day. After suffering a major heart attack (much like Smith himself did in 2018), Randal enlists his friends in an attempt to make, well, Clerks—an indie movie about his days working at the Quick Stop. Some critics praised the work as showing a more mature side of Smith, but many others found Clerks III to be uneven and uncharacteristically devoid of laughs.
“Smith has infused this final chapter of the accidental trilogy with an odd tone. It’s a comedy that wants to be serious but has trouble finding the right pitch.” —James Berardinelli, Reelviews
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