Every Emma Stone Movie, Ranked Worst To Best

Summary

• Emma Stone has had a diverse and successful acting career, starring in a variety of genres.
• Stone is one of the best comedic actors in Hollywood, but she also has great emotional range.
• Stone’s best movies include both Oscar-winners and huge blockbusters.

Since making her film debut in Superbad, Emma Stone has developed into one of Hollywood’s finest actors. Her earliest movie roles showed her potential as a comedic actor, culminating in her critically-acclaimed performance in Easy A. From then on, Stone starred in a string of award-winning movies, including Birdman, La La Land, and her collaborations with Yorgos Lanthimos.

Emma Stone won her first Oscar for La La Land, and her second award came seven years later after her starring role in Poor Things. Stone has always kept her flair for comedy, even when her movies ask her to showcase her dramatic talents at the same time. Her success has allowed her to choose exciting and unusual projects, and she has been putting together an incredible list of credits.

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28 Movie 43 (2013)

Ellen Malloy

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Director James Gunn Release Date January 25, 2013 Cast Hugh Jackman , Emma Stone , Chloe Grace Moretz , Jeremy Allen White

Emma Stone’s worst movie is also considered one of the biggest Hollywood flops of all time. The comedy anthology Movie 43 features a number of different sketches helmed by different directors and featuring different casts. The defining characteristic which unites each segment is that none of them are remotely funny. The saving grace from Stone’s point of view is that she was far from the only big name whose reputation took a hit with Movie 43. The impressive cast features Hugh Jackman, Elizabeth Banks, Halle Berry, Chris Pratt and plenty more big names who would like to forget this dud.

27 Marmaduke (2010)

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Marmaduke has been a popular comic strip for decades, but its first movie adaptation was a disaster. Owen Wilson stars as the Great Dane, and Emma Stone has a supporting role as a friendly Australian Shepherd he meets in the dog park. Aside from its weak humor, Marmaduke suffers from the same problem that many similar movies do – the talking animals are emotionless and off-putting. The script is riddled with problems, but the creepy visual effects ruin any chances that it may have had. Marmaduke has some great comedic performers, but they are all wasted on some woeful material.

26 Aloha (2015)

Allison Ng

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Director Cameron Crowe Release Date May 29, 2015 Cast Bill Murray , Danny McBride , Alec Baldwin , Emma Stone , John Krasinski , Bradley Cooper , Rachel McAdams

Emma Stone was at the center of a controversy over Hollywood whitewashing when she was cast in Aloha as a character who is white-passing, but one-quarter Hawaiian and one-quarter Chinese. She has since apologized for her part in the romantic comedy. Putting the controversies to one side, Aloha is an overly sentimental, flighty romance that lacks any real substance. It aims to coast on the charms of its cast and its exotic location, but it lacks any of the depth that characterizes director Cameron Crowe’s best work. Stone has more than one reason to regret Aloha.

25 Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past (2009)

Allison Vandermeersh

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Director Mark Waters Release Date May 1, 2009 Cast Matthew McConaughey , Jennifer Garner , Michael Douglas , Emma Stone , Breckin Meyer , Lacey Chabert

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past puts a romcom spin on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Rather than four ghosts visiting a greedy industrialist on Christmas Eve, the movie follows a serial womanizer who is given the opportunity to relive his entire dating history in one night. Essentially, the movie guts the social commentary of A Christmas Carol and replaces it with an unoriginal personal tale. Emma Stone plays the Ghost of Girlfriends Past. She is meant to represent a dorky and unattractive former lover, but she’s Emma Stone, so this casting doesn’t quite work.

24 The House Bunny (2008)

Natalie Sandler

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Director Fred Wolf Release Date August 22, 2008 Cast Anna Faris , Colin Hanks , Emma Stone , Kat Dennings , Hugh M. Hefner , Christopher McDonald

The House Bunny seems to be aiming for the same kind of unapologetically feminine message of female empowerment that made Mean Girls and Legally Blonde so popular, but it lacks the guile of either of these movies. Instead, The House Bunny‘s broad humor relegates it to a mediocre comedy with good intentions and poor execution. Anna Farris stars as a Playboy bunny who is kicked out of the mansion for being too old, and her performance delivers a few laughs, but she can’t salvage an overly formulaic script which never tries to do anything surprising.

23 Paper Man (2009)

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Director Kieran Mulroney , Michele Mulroney Release Date June 15, 2009 Cast Jeff Daniels , Emma Stone , Ryan Reynolds , Lisa Kudrow , Hunter Parrish , Kieran Culkin

Although she stars alongside Jeff Daniels and Ryan Reynolds, Paper Man is one of Emma Stone’s least famous movies. Daniels plays a struggling writer who develops a strange father-daughter relationship with a teenager, played by Stone, while he battles his imaginary friend. The film’s quirky premise leads to an uneven tone. The elements of fantasy are shoehorned in, and the imaginary friend makes the protagonist look creepy more than it makes him look endearing. There is the kernel of an off-kilter personal drama in Paper Man, but the comedy doesn’t quite work.

22 The Rocker (2008)

Amelia Stone

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Director Peter Cattaneo Release Date August 20, 2008 Cast Rainn Wilson , Christina Applegate , Teddy Geiger , Josh Gad , Emma Stone , Jeff Garlin

The Rocker stars Rainn Wilson as a washed-up former drummer who gets to relive his glory years by playing with his nephew’s band. He leads a cast brimming with potential, but most of this potential is squandered by a script that’s a little too predictable. There are a few great moments in The Rocker. Wilson makes sure of that, as do some of the stars who pop up in minor roles, including Will Arnett and Fred Armisen in a Spinal Tap-style 80s hair band. Emma Stone plays a member of the band who’s more interested in music than the rock-and-roll lifestyle.

21 Gangster Squad (2013)

Grace Faraday

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Director Ruben Fleischer Release Date January 11, 2013 Cast Josh Brolin , Giovanni Ribisi , Ryan Gosling , Michael Pena , Emma Stone , Robert Patrick , Sean Penn , Anthony Mackie , Nick Nolte

Gangster Squad is a stylish crime thriller based on the real-life battle between the LAPD and Mickey Cohen in the 1940s. Unfortunately, this style doesn’t do much to distract from the movie’s hollow center. There are still plenty of thrilling action scenes, and the period details are lavishly designed, but the characters never develop beyond the surface. Emma Stone plays a fairly two-dimensional damsel-in-distress character who seeks a life away from the clutches of the mob. Gangster Squad shows flashes of brilliance, but it had the potential to be much better.

20 Magic In The Moonlight (2014)

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Since aging out of leading-man range, Woody Allen has written several characters into his movies which clearly would have been played by him in the 1970s and 1980s. Owen Wilson does his best Woody impression in Midnight in Paris, John Cusack steps up in Bullets Over Broadway, and Magic in the Moonlight asks Colin Firth to do the same. He and Emma Stone make an unusually alluring duo in the period comedy. Magic in the Moonlight doesn’t explore the boundaries of its fun premise, but the game of cat-and-mouse between a phony clairvoyant and a hard-nosed debunker is still a quirky basis for a romcom.

19 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

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Although it received mixed reviews upon release, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has some great moments, especially when it focuses on the relationship between Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker and Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy. The main problem with the sequel is that it tries to fit in too many storylines and too many villains. Electro, Green Goblin and Rhino could each be the focus of their own movies, but they are forced to compete with one another for the audience’s attention. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 tries to set up a whole universe of sequels, but it never got the chance to follow through on this promise.

18 Irrational Man (2015)

Jill Pollard

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Director Woody Allen Release Date July 17, 2015 Cast Joaquin Phoenix , Emma Stone , Joe Stapleton , Nancy Carroll , Allison Gallerani , Brigette Lundy-Paine

Emma Stone’s second collaboration with Woody Allen in two years shows some more interesting flashes of human drama than Magic in the Moonlight, but it still doesn’t stack up with the director’s most memorable work. Joaquin Phoenix plays a depressed college professor who gains a new lease on life when he decides to kill an immoral judge. There are elements of a mystery drama and a romcom each competing for the spotlight, but Irrational Man doesn’t quite develop either to the extent that it should. Emma Stone plays a student who falls for the professor before suspecting him of murder.

17 Friends With Benefits (2011)

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Director Will Gluck Release Date July 21, 2011 Writers Keith Merryman , David A. Newman , Will Gluck , Harley Peyton

Friends with Benefits is a typical romcom for its time, with two likable leads and a premise that probes at the strange disconnect in modern dating. There are times when Friends with Benefits seems like a lazy remake of When Harry Met Sallt, without such an intelligent script, but it focuses far more on lewd humor. The sexual element provides a few memorable gags, but it also limits the emotional reach of the story. Emma Stone has a minor role as Kayla, a woman who dumps Justin Timberlake’s character at precisely the same time that Mila Kunis’ character is also getting dumped.

16 Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

Wichita

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Director Ruben Fleischer Release Date October 18, 2019 Cast Emma Stone , Rosario Dawson , Thomas MIddleditch , Jesse Eisenberg , Woody Harrelson , Avan Jogia , Abigail Breslin , Luke Wilson , Zoey Deutch

10 years after the success of Zombieland, Emma Stone reunited with Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin for delirious zombie-bashing fun. While Double Tap doesn’t have much to add to the zombie genre, it recaptures the same spirit of the original, which is no mean feat considering it came a full decade later. Comedy sequels rarely live up to the originals which inspired them, and Zombieland: Double Tap is no different. It struggles for new ideas, and some of its attempts at producing them fall short. Emma Stone is the movie’s star performer, and her cynical humor plays off Jesse Eisenberg perfectly.

15 The Croods (2013)

Eep Crood

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Director Chris Sanders Release Date March 22, 2013 Cast Nicolas Cage , Ryan Reynolds , Emma Stone , Chris Sanders

The Croods follows a prehistoric family as they discover the wonders and perils of the world beyond their cave. The narrative and the characters are nothing new for a modern animated movie, but The Croods still provides solid entertainment. One of the movie’s great strengths is its beautiful visual design, which manages to inspire the same kind of awe that captures the Crood family as they journey into unfamiliar territory. Each new species and landscape that they discover is another opportunity for the animators to flex their muscles. The Croods began a franchise, with a sequel and two TV spinoffs.

14 The Croods: A New Age (2020)

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Director Joel Crawford Release Date November 25, 2020 Cast Nicolas Cage , Joel Crawford , Emma Stone , Ryan Reynolds

The sequel to The Croods maintains a lot of the wide-eyed wonder of the first movie, and it adds in plenty of fresh ideas to keep things interesting. In A New Age, the Croods come face-to-face with a more civilized type of people, ones that understand the basics of agriculture. There are just as many bewildering landscapes and inventive creatures as the first movie, but A New Age also provides a slightly more interesting story. There are better and less formulaic modern animated movies on offer, but The Croods and its sequel are enjoyable and visually rich.

13 The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

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Director Marc Webb Release Date July 3, 2012 Cast Martin Sheen , Denis Leary , Sally Field , Rhys Ifans , Campbell Scott , Andrew Garfield , Irrfan Khan , Emma Stone

The Amazing Spider-Man has its faults, but there is a lot to live about the reboot. Firstly, Andrew Garfield’s lively and funny portrayal of the wall-crawler marks an exciting change. Emma Stone’s role as Gwen Stacy brings the best out of him, and the relationship between Gwen and Peter Parker provides a human angle to some of the super-powered action sequences. Audiences may eventually tire of seeing Spider-Man’s origin story over and over again, but The Amazing Spider-Man has enough good qualities to make up for its tired plot.

12 Kinds Of Kindness (2024)

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Director Yorgos Lanthimos Release Date June 21, 2024 Cast Emma Stone , Jesse Plemons , Willem Dafoe , Margaret Qualley , Hong Chau , Joe Alwyn , Mamoudou Athie , Hunter Schafer

Kinds of Kindness is Emma Stone’s third collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos following on from the success of The Favourite and Poor Things. The dark triptych stars Stone alongside the same cast in three loosely connected stories. It’s an obscure and unsettling return to Lanthimos’ earlier style. The Lobster‘s warped relationship drama seems like an obvious predecessor to Kinds of Kindness‘ tales of obsession and control. There are moments of shocking humor to punctuate the pervasive sense of unease, but the three tales don’t quite connect in any satisfying way. Kinds of Kindness is bold and intriguing, but it isn’t Yorgos Lanthimos’ best movie.

11 Cruella (2021)

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Director Craig Gillespie Release Date May 28, 2021 Cast Joel Fry , Emma Stone , Jamie Demetriou , Emma Thompson , Paul Walter Hauser , Kirby Howell-Baptiste , Emily Beecham , Mark Strong

While Disney has been busy working on live-action remakes to some of their beloved animated classics, Cruella was the prequel movie that nobody asked for. The villain from One Hundred and One Dalmatians didn’t need an origin story, but Cruella still manages to work well. This is largely due to Emma Stone’s performance. She has the charisma and the comedic nous to make the character her own. Cruella sets up One Hundred and One Dalmatians nicely, but it also does a good job of humanizing the unhinged villain while maintaining her edge and her iconic style.

10 Battle Of The Sexes (2017)

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Director Jonathan Dayton , Valerie Faris Release Date September 22, 2017 Cast Andrea Riseborough , Elisabeth Shue , Martha MacIsaac , Steve Carell , Sarah Silverman , Alan Cumming , Eric Christian Olsen , Natalie Morales , Emma Stone , Austin Stowell

Battle of the Sexes tells the incredible true story of Billie Jean King’s historic tennis match with Bobby Riggs. Like all great sports movies, the circumstances surrounding the match lend weight to the action on the court, as King finds herself forced into the role of representing all women. Steve Carell is superb opposite Emma Stone as a fun-loving chauvinist who plays the press perfectly and knows exactly how to push King’s buttons. Battle of the Sexes is one of the best tennis movies ever. Although it revives an incredible chapter in sporting history, it also draws some uncomfortable parallels between the era of Bobby Riggs and the modern day.

9 The Help (2011)

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Director Tate Taylor Release Date August 10, 2011 Cast Emma Stone , Viola Davis , Octavia Spencer , Jessica Chastain , Bryce Dallas Howard

In the years since its release, The Help‘s political message has been reappraised. Viola Davis now says she regrets The Help, due to the film’s oversimplified treatment of race relations in 1960s America. While it may represent a fantasy, The Help has good intentions. The superb performances are another reason to watch The Help, with Davis, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer all on top form. The Help might have benefited if it had focused more on the perspective of the Aibileen and Minny, but it’s still an emotional and sincere drama.

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