Summary

• Emma Stone has had a diverse and successful acting career, starring in a variety of genres.
• Stone is one of the best comedic actors in Hollywood, but she also has great emotional range.
• Stone's best movies include both Oscar-winners and huge blockbusters.

Since making her film debut in Superbad, Emma Stone has developed into one of Hollywood's finest actors. Her earliest movie roles showed her potential as a comedic actor, culminating in her critically-acclaimed performance in Easy A. From then on, Stone starred in a string of award-winning movies, including Birdman, La La Land, and her collaborations with Yorgos Lanthimos.

Emma Stone won her first Oscar for La La Land, and her second award came seven years later after her starring role in Poor Things. Stone has always kept her flair for comedy, even when her movies ask her to showcase her dramatic talents at the same time. Her success has allowed her to choose exciting and unusual projects, and she has been putting together an incredible list of credits.

28 Movie 43 (2013)

Ellen Malloy

Emma Stone's worst movie is also considered one of the biggest Hollywood flops of all time. The comedy anthology Movie 43 features a number of different sketches helmed by different directors and featuring different casts. The defining characteristic which unites each segment is that none of them are remotely funny. The saving grace from Stone's point of view is that she was far from the only big name whose reputation took a hit with Movie 43. The impressive cast features Hugh Jackman, Elizabeth Banks, Halle Berry, Chris Pratt and plenty more big names who would like to forget this dud.

27 Marmaduke (2010)

Mazie

Marmaduke has been a popular comic strip for decades, but its first movie adaptation was a disaster. Owen Wilson stars as the Great Dane, and Emma Stone has a ing role as a friendly Australian Shepherd he meets in the dog park. Aside from its weak humor, Marmaduke suffers from the same problem that many similar movies do - the talking animals are emotionless and off-putting. The script is riddled with problems, but the creepy visual effects ruin any chances that it may have had. Marmaduke has some great comedic performers, but they are all wasted on some woeful material.

26 Aloha (2015)

Allison Ng

Emma Stone was at the center of a controversy over Hollywood whitewashing when she was cast in Aloha as a character who is white-ing, but one-quarter Hawaiian and one-quarter Chinese. She has since apologized for her part in the romantic comedy. Putting the controversies to one side, Aloha is an overly sentimental, flighty romance that lacks any real substance. It aims to coast on the charms of its cast and its exotic location, but it lacks any of the depth that characterizes director Cameron Crowe's best work. Stone has more than one reason to regret Aloha.

25 Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past (2009)

Allison Vandermeersh

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past puts a romcom spin on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Rather than four ghosts visiting a greedy industrialist on Christmas Eve, the movie follows a serial womanizer who is given the opportunity to relive his entire dating history in one night. Essentially, the movie guts the social commentary of A Christmas Carol and replaces it with an unoriginal personal tale. Emma Stone plays the Ghost of Girlfriends Past. She is meant to represent a dorky and unattractive former lover, but she's Emma Stone, so this casting doesn't quite work.

24 The House Bunny (2008)

Natalie Sandler

The House Bunny seems to be aiming for the same kind of unapologetically feminine message of female empowerment that made Mean Girls and Legally Blonde so popular, but it lacks the guile of either of these movies. Instead, The House Bunny's broad humor relegates it to a mediocre comedy with good intentions and poor execution. Anna Farris stars as a Playboy bunny who is kicked out of the mansion for being too old, and her performance delivers a few laughs, but she can't salvage an overly formulaic script which never tries to do anything surprising.

23 Paper Man (2009)

Abby

Although she stars alongside Jeff Daniels and Ryan Reynolds, Paper Man is one of Emma Stone's least famous movies. Daniels plays a struggling writer who develops a strange father-daughter relationship with a teenager, played by Stone, while he battles his imaginary friend. The film's quirky premise leads to an uneven tone. The elements of fantasy are shoehorned in, and the imaginary friend makes the protagonist look creepy more than it makes him look endearing. There is the kernel of an off-kilter personal drama in Paper Man, but the comedy doesn't quite work.

22 The Rocker (2008)

Amelia Stone

The Rocker stars Rainn Wilson as a washed-up former drummer who gets to relive his glory years by playing with his nephew's band. He leads a cast brimming with potential, but most of this potential is squandered by a script that's a little too predictable. There are a few great moments in The Rocker. Wilson makes sure of that, as do some of the stars who pop up in minor roles, including Will Arnett and Fred Armisen in a Spinal Tap-style 80s hair band. Emma Stone plays a member of the band who's more interested in music than the rock-and-roll lifestyle.

21 Gangster Squad (2013)

Grace Faraday

Gangster Squad is a stylish crime thriller based on the real-life battle between the LAPD and Mickey Cohen in the 1940s. Unfortunately, this style doesn't do much to distract from the movie's hollow center. There are still plenty of thrilling action scenes, and the period details are lavishly designed, but the characters never develop beyond the surface. Emma Stone plays a fairly two-dimensional damsel-in-distress character who seeks a life away from the clutches of the mob. Gangster Squad shows flashes of brilliance, but it had the potential to be much better.

20 Magic In The Moonlight (2014)

Sophie Baker

Since aging out of leading-man range, Woody Allen has written several characters into his movies which clearly would have been played by him in the 1970s and 1980s. Owen Wilson does his best Woody impression in Midnight in Paris, John Cusack steps up in Bullets Over Broadway, and Magic in the Moonlight asks Colin Firth to do the same. He and Emma Stone make an unusually alluring duo in the period comedy. Magic in the Moonlight doesn't explore the boundaries of its fun premise, but the game of cat-and-mouse between a phony clairvoyant and a hard-nosed debunker is still a quirky basis for a romcom.

19 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Gwen Stacy

Although it received mixed reviews upon release, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has some great moments, especially when it focuses on the relationship between Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker and Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy. The main problem with the sequel is that it tries to fit in too many storylines and too many villains. Electro, Green Goblin and Rhino could each be the focus of their own movies, but they are forced to compete with one another for the audience's attention. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 tries to set up a whole universe of sequels, but it never got the chance to follow through on this promise.