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With so many movies under his belt, which among them are actually the greatest Will Smith movies made?
From punching out aliens to serious dramas about individual resilience, these are the 33 greatest Will Smith movies.
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Year:2013Director:Adam McKay
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Tonight’s play of the day: Will Smith in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
You’ve never experienced cinema until you’ve seen Will Smith call in an airstrike against the Minotaur.
But Smith puts on a solid performance, finely tuned in a film that is overly and comically sincere.
Where the Day Takes You is just a glimpse of what Smith would soon show as a bigger star.
Will Smith inevitably wound up in one of them: the 2004 comedy Shark Tale.
As the lie spins out of control, Oscar learns a thing or two about honesty.
To be fair, the movie sounded like a good move.
Smith isn’t proud of it, but come on: The song with Dru Hill is a banger.
The elder Smith stars as a rigid military general in a future where humans have left Earth behind.
It didn’t, and frankly, Bright isn’t very ahem, bright.
Focus
Year:2015Director(s):Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
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(Smith plays dual parts, and with aplomb.)
Honestly, any excuse to see these two actors together is a good one.
(Who on Earth can?)
But Smith does his best in one ofDisney’s many remakes of its cartoon classics.
Supporting Aladdin’s efforts to woo Jasmine is Genie, the cosmic wish maker who becomes Aladdin’s mentor.
Few of his movies, if ever, dealt with America’s ongoing history of racism.
That changed in 2022 when Smith starred in Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation.
Emancipation awkwardly comes across as a survival action movie rather than the necessarily grave drama it should be.
Concussion is a maddening movie for all the right reasons.
Frankly, that’s silly talk.
Hitch
Year:2005Director:Andy Tennant
If love has you feeling down, call Hitch.
Bad Boys
Year:1995Director:Michael Bay
Ride together, die together… bad boys for life.
Independence Day is one of thebest sci-fi moviesever made and is hands down one of Smith’s greatest hits.
That’s something almighty boxer Muhammad Alimightsay about himself, especially in his 2001 biopic.
Ali bombed at the box office, but rest assured, it’s a knockout.
And don’t even get us started on the theme song.
Just remember: The good guys dress in black.
