Regina Hall Ranked

Welcome to "Ranked", a weekly series where I rank a franchise or filmography from worst to best and hand out assorted related superlatives. This week, I'm profiling the work of Regina Hall-whose latest project "One Battle After Another" is in theaters today. 

Regina Hall's Filmography Ranked:

23.O'Dessa (D)

22.First Sunday (D+)

21.King's Ransom (D+)

20.Naked (C-)

19.The Honeymooners (C)

18.Little (C+)

17.Me Time (C+)

16.Malibu's Most Wanted (C+)

15.About Last Night (B-)

14.Love & Basketball (B-)

13.Scary Movie 4 (B-)

12.Support the Girls (B-)

11.Vacation (B)

10.Scary Movie 2 (B)

9.Barbershop: The Next Cut (B)

8.Shaft (B)

7.Girls Trip (B)

6.Death at a Funeral (B)

5.Scary Movie 3 (B)

4.Scary Movie (B)

3.The Hate U Give (B)

2.Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. (B+)

1.Law Abiding Citizen (B+)

Top Dog: Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

Few basic cable favorites from the 2000's slap as hard as F. Gary Gray's Law Abiding Citizen. It's one of those special thrillers that really revels in its own silliness and that unapologetic dedication to being absurd makes it a blast to watch from start to finish.    

Bottom Feeder: O'Dessa (2025)

Whew doggy, it's not very often that you see a real Hollywood production miss the mark as badly as O'Dessa does. Geremy Jasper's efforts to make a sweeping emotional epic post-apocalyptic rock opera go off the rails in spectacular fashion thanks to its boring original songs, story that's so busy advancing to its next plot point that it never allows emotions to enter the equation and one of the least convincing whirlwind romances ever put on screen between Sadie Sink's O'Dessa and Kelvin Harrison Jr's Euri Dervish. I won't be the least bit surprised if this ends up being my least favorite movie of the year.     

Most Underrated: Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022)

As a megachurch satire, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. is often very funny but doesn't have quite enough venom behind the punchlines to be treated as a consequential takedown of a culture that is synonymous with charismatic grifters proudly going against the words of their own sermons by exploiting members of their congregation in order to enjoy and sustain a lavish lifestyle for themselves. As an acting showcase for Hall and Sterling K. Brown-who play the first couple of a megachurch re-opening their doors a year after enduring a scandal that nearly brought down their empire-it's sensational. Hall brings an incredible mix of humor, empathy and desperation to a woman who is struggling to grasp with the reality that her time as a powerful figure has come to an end while Brown is a magnetic, pathetic piece of shit whose only real connection with his wife is a shared fear of losing the money and status they had before the world discovered his darkest secret. It's kind of a travesty that neither of them got nominated for an Oscar for their tremendous. career-defining work here.                     

Most Overrated: Love & Basketball (2000)

This is a weird one for me as I'm a basketball fan and think Gina Prince-Bythewood is a talented filmmaker who is among the most underrated directors working today. I just never got fully invested in the central relationship between Quincy (Omar Epps) and Monica (Sanaa Lathan) despite the film's admirable efforts to sell these characters as soulmates that were destined to be together despite all the obstacles life threw at them across multiple decades and that prevented me from thinking the film was anything better than decent.