Ranking Every Jim Carrey Movie Worst To Best

7. Liar Liar (1997)

Liar Liar is that rarest of comedy vehicles that emerges when a filmmaker knows precisely how to tap their star's particular set of skills. Liar Liar may seem like a broad studio comedy on the surface - and, really, it is - but beyond the expected wackiness is one of Carrey's greatest comedic performances.

There's an unexpected physical component to Carrey's performance, whereby his crooked lawyer protagonist Fletcher Reede is constantly at war with himself as he attempts - and fails - to lie.

The frothy family storyline offers few surprises, but the exhilarating energy of Carrey's performance and genuinely affecting nature of the whole enterprise makes it work far better than it actually should.

6. The Cable Guy (1996)

Though a critical and commercial disappointment upon release, The Cable Guy is more fondly remembered today as a bold foray into black comedy just two years after Carrey exploded into a full-on movie star.

Audiences and critics alike weren't ready for it, evidently, eschewing the broader antics associated with Carrey's comedy in favour of something far darker and discomforting.

Carrey's perfectly-calibrated turn as obsessive cable installer "Chip" Douglas ensures the audience is forever kept on an uneven keel, unsure of quite how far down the path of villainy he and director Ben Stiller are going to take things.

The Cable Guy is certainly a funny movie, but more than that it's an honest one, both in its portrayal of disaffected "losers" and its satire of our ever-increasing consumption of Content.