Vera Farmiga's 8 Lowest-Scoring Movies

Vera Farmiga's bottom eight by movie.guru score. Her floor is higher than most careers' ceilings, which makes this roast weirdly hard to write.

The #1 lowest scorer is a horror movie I think the number got wrong.

1. 8
   The Conjuring 2 (2016)7.5

   Her lowest-scoring list opens at 7.5. Rough life.

   $322.8M worldwide on a reported $40M, audiences beat 81% of movies. My 6.9 says the back half drags, but the Warrens still earn every creaky floorboard.
2. 7
   Source Code (2011)7.4

   92% on Rotten Tomatoes and somehow it's on this list.

   7.5 on IMDb from 589,648 voters. Farmiga spends the movie talking through a screen and still makes it feel urgent. The science explanation needs its own sequel, though.
3. 6
   The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)7.3

   Audiences love it more than critics, and critics have a point.

   Audiences beat 89%, critics just 44%, Metacritic 55. Strong performances, but the child's-eye framing simplifies the Holocaust in ways that deserve that pushback.
4. 5
   Ezra (2023)5.8

   The kindest movie here, and almost nobody saw it.

   $2,631,460 domestic and only 6,007 IMDb votes. Cannavale, Byrne, Farmiga and Whoopi Goldberg in a gentle family dramedy deserved a bigger crowd than a school recital.
5. 4
   Safe House (2012)5.1

   A minus CinemaScore for a thriller critics completely shrugged at.

   $126.4M domestic, but critics beat just 32%. Farmiga plays a CIA boss glued to phones while Denzel and Ryan Reynolds do all the running.
6. 3
   The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)5.0

   The farewell made the most money and had the fewest scares.

   $499.3M worldwide on a reported $55M, the biggest gross on this list. A 5.0 score, though. Farmiga and Wilson deserved a send-off with more dread and fewer subplots.
7. 2
   Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)4.6

   Gorgeous monster fights, humans you'd skip on fast forward.

   Reported $170 to 200M budget, $387.3M worldwide, 42% on RT. Ghidorah gets three heads and still has more personality than every human scene combined.
8. 1
   Orphan (2009)4.5

   Orphan does not belong at the bottom. Fight me.

   4.5 here, but 7.0 on IMDb from 281,881 voters, and my take is 6.0. Isabelle Fuhrman is terrifying, Farmiga holds the whole house together, and the third act still lands.

$46.17 says someone in the comments defends Godzilla's monster fights for three paragraphs without naming a single human character.

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