All of Brad Pitt’s Movies Ranked From Worst to Best

Pitt played basketball star Dwight Ingalls in “Cutting Class” (1989).

Audience Score: 22%

Critic Score: 14%

In this high-school-based slasher film, a series of suspicious deaths turn out to be murders.

The 2013 thriller “The Counselor” featured Pitt as Westray, a man who convinces someone else to get involved in the drug trade.

Audience Score: 23%

Critic Score: 34%

A Texas lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who seems to have it all runs into money trouble and gets involved in a dangerous drug deal.

The film also starred Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, and Javier Bardem,

The actor briefly appeared as himself in 2002’s “Full Frontal.”

Audience Score: 27%

Critic Score: 39%

An unofficial follow-up to “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” “Full Frontal” follows a day in the life of a series of famous people.

Pitt briefly played himself in this Steven Soderbergh-directed film, which starred Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood.

“By The Sea” (2015) is led by Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Audience Score: 28%

Critic Score: 35%

Angelina Jolie directed the film, which starred Pitt and herself as an unhappy couple that reaffirms their marital bond while vacationing in France during the 1970s.

Brad Pitt played a detective opposite Gabriel Byrne and Kim Basinger in the live-action and animated film “Cool World” (1992).

Audience Score: 31%

Critic Score: 4%

The 1992 movie, which followed the story of a cartoonist who becomes trapped in the world of his drawings, received pretty low marks on Rotten Tomatoes.

Netflix’s “War Machine” (2017) featured Pitt as General Stanley A. McChrystal.

Audience Score: 34%

Critic Score: 47%

Based on Michael Hastings’ book “The Operator: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan,” the satirical film follows the US troops’ involvement in Afghanistan.

Netflix’s “Ad Astra” (2019) starred Pitt as an astronaut.

Audience Score: 40%

Critic Score: 83%

“Ad Astra” follows a young astronaut’s journey to find out what happened to his father, an astronaut who got lost in space 30 years prior.

In “The Devil’s Own” (1997), Pitt was one of the leads.

Audience Score: 41%

Critic Score: 35%

Pitt appeared as Frankie McGuire, an Irish Republican Army soldier seeking revenge for his father’s death at the hands of enemy soldiers.

Pitt and Julia Roberts starred in “The Mexican” (2001).

Audience Score: 44%

Critic Score: 54%

The drama follows the escapades of a mafia criminal who’s planning to retire.

Pitt starred as a mob enforcer named Jackie in “Killing Them Softly” (2012).

Audience Score: 44%

Critic Score: 74%

The dark thriller, which also starred James Gandolfini and Richard Jenkins, is about a mob enforcer (Pitt) who tracks down a group of men who think they are exempt from the rules of the gang.

A then-unknown Pitt played the lead in 1991’s “Johnny Suede.”

Audience Score: 47%

Critic Score: 27%

Pitt starred in this flick about a man whose musical talents don’t quite match up to his ambition.

The actor voiced the titular character in the animated film “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas” (2003).

Audience Score: 56%

Critic Score: 45%

Despite its star-studded vocal cast, which included Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Joseph Fiennes, the pirate film received low marks from critics and audiences.

Critics and viewers alike praised Pitt and Jolie’s on-screen chemistry in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” (2005).

Audience Score: 58%

Critic Score: 59%

The film is all about two assassins (Pitt and Jolie) who are ordered to kill one another. The catch? They’re married.

Another addition to a trilogy, “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004) featured Pitt as Rusty.

Audience Score: 60%

Critic Score: 55%

Pitt reprised his role as Rusty Ryan opposite George Clooney and Matt Damon in “Ocean’s Twelve,” one of audiences’ least favorite films in the series.

“Happy Feet Two” (2011) follows a penguin who loves to dance.

Audience Score: 60%

Critic Score: 45%

A sequel to “Happy Feet,” the film follows Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood), who loves to dance, and his son who can’t bring himself to move his feet.

Pitt voiced Will the Krill in the movie.

The actor played intelligence officer Max Vatan in the World War I-era movie “Allied” (2016).

Audience Score: 64%

Critic Score: 60%

Set in North Africa in 1942, an intelligence officer (Pitt) and a French Resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) have their relationship put to the test amidst a raging war.

Part thriller, part dark comedy, “Kalifornia” (1993) got mixed reviews from viewers.

Audience Score: 64%

Critic Score: 58%

Close to his publishing deadline for a book on serial killers, Brian (David Duchovny) and his partner (Michelle Forbes) embark on a cross-country trip to visit notorious murder sites — but they end up getting closer to killers than they ever imagined.

“Burn After Reading” (2008) saw Pitt team up with Clooney, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton.

Audience Score: 65%

Critic Score: 78%

In the film, two gym employees find a former CIA analyst’s memoirs and try to use them to make a profit.

The comedy-thriller received mixed reviews, with some audience members calling it a mess and others dubbing it a classic film from the Coen Brothers.

In Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (2019), Pitt played a stunt double named Cliff Booth.

Audience Score: 70%

Critic Score: 85%

Set in 1969, the film follows a Western star (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Pitt) who are struggling to find work in a new Hollywood.

Pitt did voice work in the animated comedy “Megamind” (2010).

Audience Score: 72%

Critic Score: 72%

In the film, Pitt voiced the do-gooder Metro Man who must battle Megamind (voiced by Will Ferrell)

Pitt starred as a United Nations employee who tries to stop a zombie epidemic in 2013’s “World War Z.”

Audience Score: 72%

Critic Score: 66%

In the film, Gerry Lane (Pitt) tries to stop a horrifying pandemic from impacting all of humanity.

Pitt memorably transformed into the golden-haired Achilles in 2004’s “Troy.”

Audience score: 73%

Critic Score: 53%

The film is set in ancient Greece and tells one of the famed poet Homer’s classic stories.

Based on the true story of Heinrich Harrer, “Seven Years in Tibet” (1997) featured Pitt as its lead.

Audience Score: 73%

Critic Score: 60%

The biographical war drama is about an escaped British internment-camp prisoner (Pitt) who travels throughout various countries and eventually strikes up a friendship with the Dalai Lama (Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk).