Angelina Jolie Ranked

Welcome to "Ranked", where I rank a franchise or filmography from worst to best and hand out various related accolades. This week, I'm profiling the work of Angelina Jolie. 

Angelina Jolie's Filmography Ranked:

19.Shark Tale (F)

18.Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (D-)

17.A Mighty Heart (D+)

16.Beowulf (D+)

15.Salt (C-)

14.Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (C-)

13.Mr. and Mrs. Smith (C)

12.Girl, Interrupted (C) 

11.The Bone Collector (C+)

10.Kung Fu Panda 3 (B)

9.Kung Fu Panda 2 (B)

8.Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (B)

7.Maleficent (B)

6.Kung Fu Panda (B)

5.Changeling (B)

4.Those Who Wish Me Dead (B+)

3.Gone in 60 Seconds (B+)

2.Eternals (B+)

1.Wanted (A-)

Top Dog: Wanted (2008)

Wanted was released when I was 16 and after seeing it in theaters opening weekend, I was convinced it was the greatest movie ever made. Its combination of stylized bloody violence, wild car chases and characters yelling F-bombs every 10-15 seconds was pretty like catnip for my undeveloped, trash-loving brain, and I spent most of that summer enraging my friends by saying it was a better film than The Dark Knight. While I'm not quite as fond of it now as I was back then when I was its literal biggest fan, Wanted is still an exhilaratingly over-the-top spectacle that I admire due to its unflinching embrace of all things scuzzy, cartoonish and idiotic.  

Lowlight: Shark Tale (2004)

Nothing says family fun like a cartoon mobster saga starring a bunch of fished voiced by superstar actors (Will Smith, Jack Black, Renee Zellweger, Jolie, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese). Bonkers plot aside, Shark Tale is that special kind of atrocity that fails so spectacularly to entertain or amuse that it's sincerely embarrassing. There isn't even a single moment in this piece of trash that's even a little bit redeemable, it's just pure, repugnant garbage throughout. If Dreamworks (or any other legitimate studio) ever puts something this staggeringly awful again, the animated film world would likely collapse in short order. 

Most Underrated: Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)

Nicolas Cage ended his blockbuster action star era with a big, electrifying bang courtesy of this 'roided up remake of the 1974 cult classic about a former prolific car thief (Cage) who's forced back into the game after his brother (Giovani Ribisi) botches a big job for a notorious gangster (Christopher Eccleston). The beauty of this film is that it's a fun popcorn movie where a bunch of really great veteran actors (Cage, Jolie, Ribisi, Delroy Lindo, Robert Duvall, Will Patton, Chi McBride, Timothy Olyphant, Vinnie Jones) let their hair down and roll with the abundance of silly punches this action heist saga throws out.    

Most Overrated: Girl, Interrupted (1999)

James Mangold's 60's-set coming-of-age drama is a clumsy, intermittently boring character study about a group of young women who are patients at a psychiatric hospital that is only a few solid performances (Winona Ryder, Jolie, the late Brittany Murphy) away from being considerably below average.