Every Ben Affleck Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
Chronicling the many ups and downs of Ben Affleck's career.
Ben Affleck is undeniably one of the most recognisable A-list actors working today, and his career trajectory is also an uncommonly fascinating and complex one.
Though Affleck's new erotic thriller Deep Water is scoring wildly mixed reviews from critics, he's been on a general upswing recently, the latest turn in a topsy-turvy career defined by euphoric, Oscar-winning highs and crushing, Razzie-nabbing lows.
Over an active career spanning more than 30 years as an actor, Affleck's output has been all over the map, yet despite that inconsistency he's certainly garnered a more charitable rep in recent years through both his directing and more dramatic acting work.
But with more than 50 major movies to his name, how do they all stack up? It's time to dig back through Ben Affleck's varied, storied filmography and separate the wheat from the chaff.
Do his biggest critical hits hold up? Were his most infamous flops really that bad? And what about those in-between movies you may not have even heard of.
This is how it all shakes out in 2022, as Affleck enters the grizzled middle-aged phase of his career which could prove his most interesting yet...
55. Gigli (2003)
As long as Ben Affleck shall live, he can rest easy that he'll never be under as much public scrutiny as he was when he co-starred with real-life lover Jennifer Lopez in 2003's Razzie-winning dud Gigli.
Somehow costing an insane $75 million and directed by the once-brilliant Martin Brest (Scent of a Woman), Gigli is an embarrassingly terrible romantic "comedy" starring Affleck as a low-level mobster who falls in love with the woman (Lopez) sent to ensure he carries out his latest job.
The weirdest thing about Gigli isn't that it's totally unfunny, but that Affleck and Lopez strangely have little palpable on-screen romantic chemistry. The atrocious dialogue doesn't help, but even so, there are no sparks to be found.
Gigli went on to win six Razzies, including Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Actor for Affleck, Worst Actress for Lopez, and Worst Screen Couple for the pair.
It was also such a catastrophic box office bomb that it effectively ended director Brest's career, as he hasn't made a single film in the near-20 years since.