Every Jennifer Lawrence Movie, Ranked
Updated June 22, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence got her Hollywood start on television, but she became one of the biggest movie stars in the world when she broke out in Winter's Bone 2010, earning her first-ever Oscar nomination, and immediately followed that up with a string of blockbusters, critical darlings, and awards favorites, from X-Men: First Class to The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook. (The latter earned Lawrence her first Oscar win.)
Although the X-Men and Hunger Games franchises kept her very busy for the better part of a decade, she still found the time to slip into complicated roles in Mother!, American Hustle, Joy, and Don't Look Up, to name a few, picking up two more Oscar noms (for American Hustle and Joy), in addition to other accolades, including a BAFTA Award.
Admittedly, along the way, not every movie has been a hit with critics or audiences, as you can see from their Metascore and user score, but regardless, Lawrence has proved she is force with which to be reckoned as she has dominated the screen whether she was saving the entire civilization of Panem, or sharing scenes with such long-time Hollywood heavyweights as Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.
As The Hunger Games hits its 20th anniversary, up next for Lawrence is the veteran drama Red, White and Water and Bad Blood, in which she portrays real-life convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes. To celebrate how far Lawrence has come in her career, here, Metacritic ranks all of her movies (so far) — from worst to best — according to Metascore.
Additional content by Danielle Turchiano and Jason Dietz. Photo courtesy Netflix.
Darren Aronofsky's 2017 psychological relationship drama stars Lawrence as the titular, no-name wife referred to as "Mother" opposite Javier Bardem as "Him," a poet who lives with Mother in an isolated mansion in the countryside. Things get trippy (and scary for Lawrence's character) when they have unexpected guests, who her husband goes out of his way to accommodate, even when it puts her and their child in danger, offering an artistic depiction of how women are so often overlooked, ignored, and used without regard for who they are.
“Mother! is a mad fantasia of fire and water and insanity.” —Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
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