The Best and Worst Emma Stone Movies, Ranked

Review Rating: 89%

This parody of the zombie genre stars Stone as a zombie apocalypse survivor who teams up with three others on a cross-country journey to find a sanctuary zone.

Review Rating: 91%

In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ambitious dark comedy-drama, Stone plays Sam, a recovering drug addict and the daughter of actor Riggan (Keaton). The two attempt to mend their broken relationship when Sam works as an assistant on Riggan’s Broadway show.

Review Rating: 91%

An aspiring actress (Stone) and a struggling jazz pianist (Gosling) fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Damien Chazelle’s breathtaking musical. Stone would go on to win her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this role.

Review Rating: 92%

In this eerie tale by Yorgos Lanthimos set in Victorian London, Stone plays Bella Baxter, a woman who commits suicide and is brought back to life by a scientist (Willem Dafoe) who replaces her brain with that of an infant. Bella then takes on life with childlike wonder.

Review Rating: 93%

Marking Stone’s first time working with Lanthimos, this dark comedy set in 1700s England stars Stone and Weisz as cousins ​​who engage in absurd antics to outdo each other and become Queen Anne’s (Olivia Colman) favorite.

Review Rating: 30%

Stone teamed up with “Zombieland” director Ruben Fleischer for this gangster film starring Gosling, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte and Sean Penn as infamous mob boss Mickey Cohen. Critics and audiences were less than enthusiastic.

Review Rating: 27%

Early in Stone’s career, she signed on for this romantic comedy directed by McConaughey and Jennifer Garner with a plot based on the Charles Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol.” (Yes, you read that right.) Needless to say, the film was hammered by critics.

Review Rating: 20%

Not only is this film writer-director Cameron Crowe’s lowest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes, but Stone was also embroiled in a whitewashing controversy for playing a character who is part Chinese, which she is not in real life.

Review Rating: 9%

This big screen version of the legendary comic strip stars Owen Wilson as the voice of Marmaduke. Stone voiced Mazie, an energetic Australian Shepherd.

Review Rating: 5%

Stone joined Richard Gere, Kate Winslet, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman and Elizabeth Banks to star in this anthology comedy comprised of 14 short films. Some critics consider it one of the worst films ever made.