Scarlett Johansson's 8 Lowest-Scoring Movies

Every great career has a basement. Hers has a Marvel movie, a Woody Allen thriller and a $469M hit in it. Nicer than most people's living rooms.

Number one is gorgeous, pricey, and the one you'll fight me about.

1. 8
   Black Widow (2021)7.1

   Florence Pugh stole Scarlett's own solo movie.

   A 7.1 with an A minus CinemaScore makes this her 'worst' only on a technicality. The real horror is the reported $288.5M budget against $379.8M worldwide.
2. 7
   Match Point (2005)6.8

   The best movie on this list, and it isn't close.

   IMDb voters give it 7.6, yet opening crowds handed it a B minus CinemaScore. A reported $15M tennis thriller that made $85.6M worldwide. Sharper than its 6.8 suggests.
3. 6
   Iron Man 2 (2010)6.5

   Her Marvel debut was mostly homework for future movies.

   Metacritic gave it 57, crowds gave it an A CinemaScore. $623.9M worldwide bought a sequel that spends half its runtime setting up other sequels.
4. 5
   Fly Me to the Moon (2024)6.2

   Genuinely charming. Nobody showed up. Stream it out of guilt.

   Audiences beat 70 percent of movies, critics just 41. Then it made $42.3M worldwide on a reported $100M budget. Scarlett and Channing Tatum deserved a bigger crowd.
5. 4
   Don Jon (2013)4.9

   Smarter than its C+ CinemaScore, and that's the whole problem.

   80 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, but audiences beat only 31 percent of movies. Joseph Gordon-Levitt made $39.4M worldwide off a reported $5M budget. People just expected a different movie.
6. 3
   The Island (2005)4.5

   Michael Bay's most underrated movie. Yes, really.

   39 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, yet 346,148 IMDb voters average 6.8. It made just $35.8M domestic on a reported $126M budget. Bay at his least smug.
7. 2
   Lucy (2014)4.0

   A giant hit that nobody enjoyed walking out of.

   $469.1M worldwide on a reported $40M budget, then a C+ CinemaScore. Audiences beat just 22 percent of movies. The Guru's Take is 3.6, even meaner than the 4.0.
8. 1
   Ghost in the Shell (2017)3.7

   Gorgeous, expensive, and the emptiest thing she's made.

   3.7 on movie.guru, the only 'Poor' band here. 43 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and $40.6M domestic on a reported $110M budget. The visuals fans defend can't carry the script.

$286.04 says the top comment is someone typing 'Lucy was fine, actually' with zero follow-up.

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