Jennifer Lawrence's 8 Best Movies, Ranked

Ranked by movie.guru score, not vibes. Four Hunger Games, two X-Men, one comet and one dance floor. The data has opinions, and so do I.

Number one is the pick that'll make Silver Linings fans flip a table.

1. 8
   The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)5.9

   The finale that forgot to be fun.

   Splitting one book in two left this half doing cleanup. $684 million worldwide, but a 5.9 movie.guru score, barely above the 5.5 median.
2. 7
   The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)6.0

   Two hours of setup, sold as a whole movie.

   Lawrence carries a mountain of planning meetings on her back. It still made $762 million worldwide, and the Guru's Take is a stingy 5.3.
3. 6
   Don't Look Up (2021)6.3

   Critics were harsher on this than it deserved.

   56% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 49 Metacritic, yet audiences beat 74% of movies. She's the only character acting like a comet is a real problem.
4. 5
   X-Men: First Class (2011)7.6

   The coolest X-Men movie, ranked way too low.

   McAvoy and Fassbender play it like a buddy spy movie. 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, and its 7.9 Guru's Take beats two movies ranked above it.
5. 4
   The Hunger Games (2012)7.8

   The shaky cam is the real villain here.

   Gary Ross shot it like the camera had six espressos. Didn't matter: a reported $78M budget turned into $408 million domestic and an A CinemaScore.
6. 3
   Silver Linings Playbook (2012)8.6

   Critics' darling. Not her best, and I'll die on it.

   92% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 81 Metacritic, the best reviews here. But the Guru's Take is 7.2, lowest in the top four. Lawrence out-acts De Niro anyway.
7. 2
   The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)8.7

   Best Hunger Games movie, and it's not close.

   Francis Lawrence steadied the camera and raised the stakes. $869.9 million worldwide, the biggest gross on this list, plus a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.
8. 1
   X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)8.8

   Her best movie is an X-Men movie. Deal with it.

   She's fourth billed and still drives the plot. 8.8 movie.guru score, audiences beat 93% of movies, and the reported $200M budget actually shows up on screen.

$1,438 says the first comment defends Silver Linings Playbook and starts with the word actually.

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