Natasha Lyonne 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 Natasha Lyonne-whose latest project "His Three Daughters" is in select theaters now and begins streaming on Netflix tomorrow.  

Natasha Lyonne's Filmography Ranked:

18.Yoga Hosers (D)

17.Party Monster (D)

16.Blade: Trinity (C)

15.The United States vs. Billie Holliday (C+)

14.Robots (C+)

13.Irresistible (B-)

12.DC League of Superpets (B-)

11.But I'm a Cheerleader (B-)

10.A Futile and Stupid Gesture (B)

9.Scary Movie 2 (B)

8.American Pie 2 (B)

7.Ad Astra (B)

6.Family (B)

5.Detroit Rock City (B+)

4.Sleeping with Other People (B+)

3.American Reunion (B+)

2.Honey Boy (B+)

1.American Pie (B+)

Top Dog: American Pie (1999)

To this day, American Pie remains one of the funniest films of its era. It does a great job of mixing earnestness with crass; gross-out humor, the central protagonists (Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Lyonne, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Alyson Hannigan) are all really likable, grounded characters and every single thing that Eugene Levy does here is pure comedic gold.           

Bottom Feeder: Yoga Hosers (2016)

Kevin Smith's pseudo-sequel to his horrendous body horror comedy Tusk may be an even worse film. Smith has arguably never put together a more obnoxious, unfunny film than this woeful ode to B-comedy horror schlock that couldn't possibly be less fun if it tried.       

Most Underrated: Sleeping with Other People (2015)

Along with Destination Wedding, Sleeping with Other People is a standout entry in the underserved asshole romcom genre. Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie share an incredible rapport as two self-absorbed assholes with commitment issues who had a one-night stand together in college that slowly fall in love upon being reunited in their late 30's and writer/director Leslye Headland fuses the entire affair with enough humor and heart to make these assholes a pleasure to root for.   

Most Overrated: None

This was an easy call. The horrifically amateurish dark comedy biopic Party Monster has too small of a cult following to meet the criteria and But I'm a Cheerleader is a perfectly fine movie with an appeal that I fully understand.  

Most Fascinating: Blade: Trinity (2004)

Blad: Trinity is one of the most infamous troubled productions of the past 25 years. Patton Oswalt in particular has delivered hilarious anecdotes surrounding all the chaos that took place on the set-which mostly involves the erratic behavior of Wesley Snipes and his rocky relationship with director David S. Goyer. With this knowledge in mind, the film itself is very much a product of the turbulence that occupied its set. It's a completely jumbled mess that struggles to land on a tone or narrative focus for the majority of its runtime. Trinity actually manages to be pretty fun in spurts as a result of the hilarity/audacity of the some of its more insane creative decisions and Snipes still being able to turn on the charisma despite him not wanting to be involved with the film, it's just way too scattershot to be good in the traditional sense.