Ranking Every Jim Carrey Movie Worst To Best

17. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

In many ways the most important film of Carrey's entire career, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective kicked off his star-making year of 1994 with a bang.

Though as a piece of storytelling it's all over the place, and much of its "comedy" - particularly the flagrant transphobia - has aged like milk, it's difficult to argue with the sheer sensory assault that is Carrey's rubber-faced performance.

It is, if nothing else, a man in complete command of his craft, and doing everything within his power to elevate what, in lesser hands, could've clearly been a genre also-ran.

It's not for everyone, especially today, but there's no single role which won Carrey more fans or which he's more closely associated with.

16. The Majestic (2001)

Totally uneven and absurdly overlong at 152 patience-testing minutes, The Majestic is nevertheless one of the more intriguing and under-seen movies in Carrey's filmography.

Teaming with The Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont for a dew-eyed throwback to the days of Frank Capra melodramas, The Majestic is the definition of ambitious to a fault - sprawling, bloated, unapologetically corny, and often rather entertaining.

Carrey's riff on a Jimmy Stewart-type performance is mostly a success, and though it's easy to see why the film tanked commercially while being received indifferently by critics, it's probably due a re-evaluation of-sorts, flaws and all.