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The Proposal celebrates its 15th anniversary!
We’re ranking the films of Sandra Bullock! We start with Bullock’s Certified Fresh works, which include her action breakthrough Speed, Best Picture winner Crash, technical masterpiece Gravity, ’90s rom-com classic While You Were Sleeping, and her return to the genre after a long absence, 2022’s The Lost City. Some of Bullock’s Fresh films have been her most popular, including The Blind Side (which won her the Best Actress Oscar), action-comedy The Heat, the female-led take on the Ocean’s franchise, Netflix’s conversation-starter Bird Box, and prescient sci-fi satire Demolition Man. Bullock’s star power and endurance extends even into her Rotten movies, like the Miss Congeniality movies, cult favorite Practical Magic, and her mid-career comeback The Proposal. —Alex Vo
#1
Adjusted Score: 113258%
Critics Consensus: Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is an eerie, tense sci-fi thriller that’s masterfully directed and visually stunning.
#2
Adjusted Score: 100504%
Critics Consensus: A terrific popcorn thriller, Speed is taut, tense, and energetic, with outstanding performances from Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, and Sandra Bullock.
#3
Adjusted Score: 85265%
Critics Consensus: While You Were Sleeping is built wholly from familiar ingredients, but assembled with such skill — and with such a charming performance from Sandra Bullock — that it gives formula a good name.
#4
Adjusted Score: 93859%
Critics Consensus: The Lost City doesn’t sparkle quite as brightly as some classic treasure-hunting capers, but its stars’ screwball chemistry make this movie well worth romancing.
#5
Adjusted Score: 84440%
Critics Consensus: The Prince of Egypt‘s stunning visuals and first-rate voice cast more than compensate for the fact that it’s better crafted than it is emotionally involving.
#6
Adjusted Score: 82170%
Critics Consensus: A raw and unsettling morality piece on modern angst and urban disconnect, Crash examines the dangers of bigotry and xenophobia in the lives of interconnected Angelenos.
#7
Adjusted Score: 80098%
Critics Consensus: Though comparisons with last year’s Capote may be inevitable, Infamous takes a different angle in its depiction of the author, and stands up well enough on its own.
#8
Adjusted Score: 88297%
Critics Consensus: Ocean’s 8 isn’t quite as smooth as its predecessors, but still has enough cast chemistry and flair to lift the price of a ticket from filmgoers up for an undemanding caper.
#9
Adjusted Score: 70662%
Critics Consensus: Overlong and superficial, A Time to Kill nonetheless succeeds on the strength of its skillful craftsmanship and top-notch performances.
#10
Adjusted Score: 74173%
Critics Consensus: It might strike some viewers as a little too pat, but The Blind Side has the benefit of strong source material and a strong performance from Sandra Bullock.
#11
Adjusted Score: 74204%
Critics Consensus: The Heat is predictable, but Melissa McCarthy is reliably funny and Sandra Bullock proves a capable foil.
#12
Adjusted Score: 74091%
Critics Consensus: Bird Box never quite reaches its intriguing potential, but strong acting and an effectively chilly mood offer intermittently creepy compensation.
#13
Adjusted Score: 66659%
Critics Consensus: A better-than-average sci-fi shoot-em-up with a satirical undercurrent, Demolition Man is bolstered by strong performances by Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, and Sandra Bullock.
#14
Adjusted Score: 60384%
Critics Consensus: Predictable but moving, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway is an understated and melancholic drama that gets plenty of mileage out of an outstanding cast that includes Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine, and Sandra Bullock.
#15
Adjusted Score: 58275%
Critics Consensus: The last film River Phoenix completed before his death, The Thing Called Love doesn’t have much new to say about show business, but it’s energetic and well acted.
#16
Adjusted Score: 66711%
Critics Consensus: The Minions’ brightly colored brand of gibberish-fueled insanity stretches to feature length in their self-titled Despicable Me spinoff, with uneven but often hilarious results.
#17
Adjusted Score: 72769%
Critics Consensus: Bullet Train‘s colorful cast and high-speed action are almost enough to keep things going after the story runs out of track.
#18
Adjusted Score: 52008%
Critics Consensus: The Vanishing copies the form of its pulse-pounding predecessor but loses much of its thrilling function along the way, leaving American audiences with one more rote remake.
#19
Adjusted Score: 48837%
Critics Consensus: A distinct lack of chemistry between Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock, coupled with a screwball sensibility that’s a touch too screwy, scupper Forces of Nature‘s modest ambition to serve up romantic charm.
#20
Adjusted Score: 52522%
Critics Consensus: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has a story worth telling, but it deserves better than the treacly and pretentious treatment director Stephen Daldry gives it.
#21
Adjusted Score: 52461%
Critics Consensus: Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds exhibit plenty of chemistry, but they’re let down by The Proposal‘s devotion to formula.
#22
Adjusted Score: 48684%
Critics Consensus: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is more melodramatic than emotionally truthful, and uneven in its mixture of time periods, actresses, laughter and tears.
#23
Adjusted Score: 46924%
Critics Consensus: The premise isn’t without potential and Sandra Bullock is as likable as ever, but The Net lacks sufficient thrills — or plausible plot points — to recommend catching.
#24
Adjusted Score: 45826%
Critics Consensus: Though Two Weeks Notice has nothing new to add to the crowded genre, Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock make the movie a pleasant, if predictable, sit.
#25
Adjusted Score: 45330%
Critics Consensus: Though critics say Bullock is funny and charming, she can’t overcome a bad script that makes the movie feel too much like a fluffy, unoriginal sitcom.
#26
Adjusted Score: 42969%
Critics Consensus: The Unforgivable proves Sandra Bullock is more than capable of playing against type, but her performance is wasted on a contrived and unrelentingly grim story.
#27
Adjusted Score: 44044%
Critics Consensus: Our Brand Is Crisis offers sporadic amusement and benefits from a talented cast, but ultimately lacks enough of a bite to add much of interest to the political satire genre.
#28
Adjusted Score: 41189%
Critics Consensus: The plot of The Lake House is a little too convoluted, and the film fails to pull off the sweeping romance it aims for.
#29
Adjusted Score: 35952%
Critics Consensus: Even though 28 Days is tackling a difficult subject, it comes off light and superficial, and maybe even a little preachy.
#30
Adjusted Score: 33982%
Critics Consensus: A predictable police procedural that works better as a character study rather than a thriller.
#31
Adjusted Score: 28311%
Critics Consensus: Hope Floats sinks under a deluge of melodramatic turns and syrupy sentimentality, although Sandra Bullock remains a winning star.
#32
Adjusted Score: 26976%
Critics Consensus: A dark comedy of the low brow nature — filled with fart and gay jokes. Even Liam Neeson and Sandra Bullock cannot save this failure.
#33
Adjusted Score: 25213%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#34
Adjusted Score: 29860%
Critics Consensus: Practical Magic‘s jarring tonal shifts sink what little potential its offbeat story may have — though Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s chemistry makes a strong argument for future collaborations.
#35
Adjusted Score: 20282%
Critics Consensus: Sandra Bullock is still as appealing as ever; too bad the movie is not pageant material.
#36
Adjusted Score: 14412%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#37
Adjusted Score: 12251%
Critics Consensus: Formulaic and trite, In Love and War unconvincingly recreates Ernest Hemingway’s early life with all the stuffy tropes that the author would have excised in a second draft.
#38
Adjusted Score: 14153%
Critics Consensus: Overdosing on flashbacks, and more portentous than profound, the overly obtuse Premonition weakly echoes such twisty classics as Memento, The Sixth Sense, and Groundhog Day.
#39
Adjusted Score: 11188%
Critics Consensus: All About Steve is an oddly creepy, sour film, featuring a heroine so desperate and peculiar that audiences may be more likely to pity than root for her.
#40
Adjusted Score: 8922%
Critics Consensus: Speed 2 falls far short of its predecessor, thanks to laughable dialogue, thin characterization, unsurprisingly familiar plot devices, and action sequences that fail to generate any excitement.