Mark Ruffalo's 8 Most Underrated Movies. Yes, One of Them Made $1.4 Billion.

Everyone knows Ruffalo as the guy who turns green. The first six movies here grossed less, combined, than Infinity War's $2.05B alone.

Number one made over a billion dollars, and somehow we're the only ones defending it.

1. 8
   Collateral (2004)7.3

   Michael Mann's sharpest thriller, and nobody remembers Ruffalo's in it.

   Fourth billed behind Cruise, Foxx and Pinkett Smith. movie.guru score 7.3, Guru's Take 8.3. That's a full point of disrespect for Mann's best night drive.
2. 7
   Crime 101 (2026)6.5

   The best grown-up heist movie nobody bought a ticket for.

   88% on Rotten Tomatoes, then $72.9M worldwide against a reported $90M budget. Hemsworth, Ruffalo and Keoghan in one crime movie should not be a hard sell.
3. 6
   Poor Things (2023)8.5

   Ruffalo's funniest work, and half his fans never saw it.

   Metacritic 88, but only $34.6M domestic. Emma Stone gets the headlines. Ruffalo gets the biggest laughs, and nobody saw that coming.
4. 5
   Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)8.2

   A flop on paper that became everyone's breakup movie.

   $34.4M domestic on a reported $20M budget. Then 1.2 million IMDb votes piled in. Ruffalo's the supporting player people forget, in a movie about forgetting.
5. 4
   Zodiac (2007)7.3

   Fincher's best movie, and its 7.3 is the real mystery.

   Guru's Take 8.9. Only $33.1M domestic, plus a B minus CinemaScore from people who wanted a chase movie and got paperwork. The paperwork is the point.
6. 3
   Spotlight (2015)9.6

   Ruffalo's best performance, seen by a fraction of Avengers fans.

   9.6 movie.guru score, beating 98% of movies with critics and audiences alike. $45.1M domestic. Infinity War made 15 times that. Watch it this week.
7. 2
   Avengers: Infinity War (2018)8.5

   The rare $2 billion movie that critics still lowballed.

   Metacritic 68 next to an IMDb 8.4 and an A CinemaScore. $2.05B worldwide. Critics graded the homework. Audiences graded the ride.
8. 1
   Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)7.6

   Age of Ultron is better than its reputation. Fight me.

   A CinemaScore, beat 83% of movies with audiences, $1.41B worldwide. Our own Guru's Take is 5.8, so yes, I'm fighting myself on this one too.

$247.61 says you comment 'Zodiac at number four is a crime' before you even reach number one.

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