Every George Clooney Movie, Ranked

There's a pretty famous story that George Clooney likes to tell about a dog. In the early 2000s, he'd set up a meet and greet with a rescue he wanted to adopt and was told that the dog had to love him or the shelter would take him back. Clooney, scared the dog wouldn't love him, rubbed himself in turkey bacon before he met the doggo just to increase his chances of success. This is a story that says a lot about Clooney, which is probably why it's often told—in this magazine, even—to illustrate his dedication to the audience, human or otherwise.

If aliens visited this planet and we needed to provide them with an example of a movie star, we would show them George Clooney. His charm is otherworldly, yet he often puts in the effort to mask it, turn it off, or make himself the joke when he needs to for our entertainment. He is, hands down, the number one celebrity to pick if you're ever going to pull off a heist. And that would be an accurate pick even if he hadn't starred in so many heist movies. He is the link between old school cinema and modern Hollywood. He is perhaps the only one whose career would get better after the Batnipples. He is untouchable, and unmissable even when he is indeed missing. He is Amal's husband.

Whether he's meeting a dog, pulling off a heist (in Vegas, in Italy, in the 1930s deep South, in WWII, in the Gulf War), voicing a fox, going into space, or playing a total goon—Clooney puts himself into every single performance. And for that, we have a hell of a filmography, which we have ranked here, of 34 movies, that are all better off with Clooney in them. — Matt Miller