From sailing the high seas to the misery of Mortdecai, here are Johnny Depp's films ranked from worst to best.
Johnny Depp has had a long and varied career of ups and downs, hits and misses, but how do his movies rank from worst to best? Beginning his career as a teen heartthrob in films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and the hit TV show 21 Jump Street, Depp quickly graduated to leading roles, eventually fostering a relationship with director Tim Burton.
It's with Burton that he developed a movie star persona that would become uniquely his, a mix of eccentric oddities and deeply-felt soulfulness. This peculiar presence would go on to shine in films like Edward Scissorhands and What's Eating Gilbert Grape, leading inevitably to his instantly-iconic turn as Captain Jack Sparrow. Currently, he's become embroiled in controversy, dropped from his role as the main villain in Warner Bros' Fantastic Beasts franchise.

Though his future acting prospects look dire at the moment, Depp's filmography remains a vast and varied collection, overflowing with lonesome outsiders, grim-faced gangsters, and pounds upon pounds of white makeup. A note for completionists, Minamata has not been included, as it's currently only in theaters with no streaming options announced. Also missing is City of Lies, which due to a lawsuit was pulled from its 2018 release date with no replacement announced. That said, here are the Johnny Depp's major films, ranked from worst to best.
50. Mortdecai

Misguided from conception to execution, Mortdecai is one of the most torturously unfunny movies one could possibly sit through. An action comedy without thrills or laughs, this Wes Anderson-wannabe is an extreme low point in the actor's career.
49. Lone Ranger

Johnny Depp playing the Lone Ranger's Native American sidekick Tonto is a piece of casting that feels more and more tone-deaf by the hour. Even despite that, this 2013 update from Pirates director Gore Verbinski and co-starring Armie Hammer is a fairly rote, uninspired piece of blockbuster filmmaking.
48. Private Resort

Depp's second film is a sophomoric sex comedy about two boys in Miami prowling for women when they encounter a jewel heist. It's an incredibly crass and laugh-deficient film that gives a peek at the wrong turn the actor's career could've taken had things not gotten more interesting.

47. The Tourist


Still one of the most bizarre films to be able to claim "multiple Golden Globe nominee" status, this barely-burning sizzler is a magic trick that transforms two of the most charismatic movie stars of their day into a screen couple with zero chemistry. The plot attempts to be a Hitchcockian game of cat and mouse. However, an overall lack of suspense or pace renders the whole film as mostly a banal exercise in watching attractive people in beautiful settings and little else.
46. Sherlock Gnomes

Sherlock Gnomes is the 2018 follow-up to Gnomeo and Juliet. As one can imagine, it's a Toy Story-esque twist on literary characters where instead of toys, the protagonists are garden gnomes. In this one, Depp voices a statuary version of Sherlock Holmes solving a missing persons case. This is squarely aimed at kids, with not much generation-crossing charm. Colorful but trite, no one is hailing this as an animated classic.
45. Alice Through The Looking Glass

Johnny Depp's first trip to Wonderland was already a muddled, Tim Burton-directed eyesore. This sequel makes the original look masterful by comparison. Swapping out Burton for James Bobin, this paint-by-numbers follow-up to the live-action remake ticks along on auto-pilot, with generic characterizations by Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, bland visual effects sequences, and a seemingly-checked-out Mia Wasikowska as Alice.
44. The Man Who Cried

This overwrought drama about a Russian Jewish girl in 1927 who escapes to England and meets a handsome horseman wavers dangerously close to self-parody. With a soapy plot, flat characters, and wooden dialogue, not even Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp can save this movie from itself.

43.The Astronaut's Wife

Depp and Charlize Theron give fine performances in this box office bomb. However, its story of an astronaut who returns from space a changed man has undoubtedly been done before and after with far more interesting and engaging results. Boring and derivative, this melodramatic slog never even remotely blasts off.
42. Alice In Wonderland

If one is looking for the point at which Johnny Depp's "I play pale weirdos" vibe crossed over into total tedium, his Futterwacken-ing turn as the Mad Hatter is definitely Exhibit A. While the prospect of Burton taking on Lewis Carroll's surreal classic at first seemed potentially tantalizing, the result sacrifices the original text's charm for a CGI-ridden "chosen one" narrative. While the film was a huge box office success, eventually picking up Oscar wins for Costume and Production Design, this is mostly the Burton-Depp collaboration at its most indulgent.
41. Transcendence

Wally Pfister, cinematographer of The Dark Knight and Inception, tried his hand at directing with this 2014 sci-fi film about a genius whose consciousness is uploaded to the Internet. It's a good-looking movie, but its intellectual depth is fairly shallow, and any attempts at emotional intimacy are impeded by thinly-drawn characters and generic performances. Overall, it falls far short of its titular goal.
40. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald

Take a long last look, for Grindelwald will bear Johnny Depp's face no more. Appearing briefly at the end of this series' first installment, Depp's villainous wizard came into full authoritarian power in this sequel. The irony of ironies is that he and Jude Law may be the best parts of a film so frustratingly cluttered and wildly incomprehensible one wonders where the magic went.

39. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The good news is, more Captain Jack Sparrow. The bad news? Well, this was all getting a bit tired even nearing the end of the original trilogy. The fifth installment casts Javier Bardem as yet another barnacle-esque baddie with yet another army of dead pirates. Even with a random Paul McCartney cameo, one can't help but feeling like Johnny Depp is the last one at a party that ended a long, long time ago.
38. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

This fourth installment sees the reins handed from Gore Verbinski to Chicago director Rob Marshall. It's less cluttered and noisy than its predecessor, At World's End, but in the process a lot duller, with a barely present Depp. A lumbering plot that trades in Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom for an undercooked mermaid romance doesn't help matters.
37. The Ninth Gate

More than 30 years after Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski returned to the subject of Satanism with this Depp-led chiller. It's a typical display of the director's style and visual panache, but the scares are limited and Depp is left playing a fairly one-note character. More forgiving audiences may make it through the first and second acts intrigued, but the film ultimately goes off the rails in a climax that verges on the ludicrous.

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