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.
Writer/director Adam McKay's Oscar-nominated 2021 film takes the climate crisis to the extreme when a young astronomy PhD candidate (played by Lawrence) discovers a comet large enough to destroy the Earth hurtling toward the Earth. She and her professor (played by DiCaprio) attempt to warn the world, but get tripped up in political red tape, media sugarcoating, the attractiveness of fame, and more. Well, he does; she is pretty steadfast and angry about the idea of extinction. The story follows the six-month timeline from discovery to the catastrophic crash to showcase the kind of greed, arrogance, and willful ignorance ultimately can doom us all. It's technically a dark comedy, but its message is actually quite sobering if you're paying attention.
“Like Vice before it, the film too often uses satire as a tool of castigation rather than as a means of truly attacking the status quo.” —Derek Smith, Slant
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