Every Jessica Chastain movie, ranked according to critics
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Jessica Chastain has been nominated for three Oscars in her career.
Her roles span from award-winning biopics to light-hearted animated movies.
Here are all her movies, ranked by Rotten Tomatoes critic scores.
Note: All scores were current on the date of publication and are subject to change. Films without critical ratings were not included.
31. "Stolen" is the lowest-rated movie that Jessica Chastain has starred in.
Critic score: 0%
Synopsis: "Stolen" is a true-crime movie that follows Tom Adkins (Jon Hamm) and his investigation into his son's disappearance. During the investigation, Tom comes across the body of another boy that he believes is connected to his case.
Chastain has a small role as Mrs. Sally Ann Wakefield, the mother of the boy that was found.
30. Chastain plays the mother of American poet C.K. Williams in the biopic "The Color of Time."
Critic score: 5%
Synopsis: "The Color of Time" is a biopic about the renowned American poet C.K. Williams. The film is told through his poems and has multiple flashbacks to Williams at different ages, each age played by a different actor.
Chastain plays Mrs. Williams, Williams' mother.
29. In the action-thriller "Ava," Chastain plays an assassin betrayed by her boss.
Critic score: 16%
Synopsis: Chastain plays an assassin called Ava who is hunted down by a black ops organization when she starts to ask questions during one of her hits. Ava must protect herself from those after her as well as help her family and former fiancé escape from their troubles.
28. Chastain joined the live-action Snow White franchise in its sequel "The Huntsmen: Winter War."
Critic score: 20%
Synopsis: Chastain, Emily Blunt, Chris Hemsworth, and Charlize Theron lead in this prequel/sequel to "Snow White and the Huntsmen." The film reveals the origins of evil queen Raveena (Theron) and her ice witch sister Freya (Blunt).
It also shows how Eric (Hemsworth) became the Huntsmen and how he was separated from his one true love (played by Chastain). After Freya resurrects her sister Raveena, the Huntsmen must find his true love so they can save the kingdom together once and for all.
27. Jessica Chastain plays the villain in the conclusion to the "X-Men" franchise, "Dark Phoenix."
Critic score: 22%
Synopsis: "Dark Phoenix" is the final movie of the "X-Men" franchise after Fox was bought by Disney. Following the story of "X-Men Apocalypse," the X-Men have a new threat they must stop.
Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), a member of the team has started to develop new abilities that she can't control.
The X-Men must get to her before she is captured by an alien race who want Jean's power led by Vuk (Jessica Chastain), or before she is killed by Magneto (Michael Fassbender).
26. Jessica Chastain's latest movie is a spy thriller, "The 355."
Critic score: 23%
Synopsis: When a top-secret weapon falls into the wrong hands, CIA agent Mace Brown (Chastain) join forces with German demolition expert agent Marie (Diane Kruger), former MI6 computer specialist Khadijah (Lupita Nyong'o), and Colombian spy psychologist Graciela (Penélope Cruz) to retrieve the weapon.
Lin Mi Sheng (Fan Bingbing) is also after the weapon and tracks their every move.
25. In "Texas Killing Fields," Chastain plays a detective who is on the case to hunt down a serial killer.
Critic score: 37%
Synopsis: This film is loosely based on true events surrounding the murders of women kidnapped from an area called the Texas Killing Fields. Two detectives try to stop a serial killer from claiming his next victim after a local girl disappears.
Chastain stars as a third detective, Pam, who helps the two main characters hunt down the criminal.
24. Jessica Chastain's film debut was in "Jolene."
Critic score: 48%
Synopsis: Based on the short story "Jolene: A Life" by E. L. Doctorow, "Jolene" follows the chaotic life of a 15-year-old orphan who runs away from her foster home.
Chastain made her film debut by playing the protagonist Jolene.
23. Chastain stars in the play-turned-movie "Miss Julie."
Critic score: 52%
Synopsis: Based on a play of the same name, Chastain stars as the daughter of an Anglo-Irish landlord in "Miss Julie." Julie seduces her father's valet (Colin Farrell) and gets into an affair.
22. In the biographical western "Woman Walks Ahead," Chastain plays a Swiss-American portrait painter.
Critic score: 60%
Synopsis: "Woman Walks Ahead" is a western drama about Caroline Wedden, a real-life painter that traveled from New York City to the Dakotas to paint a portrait of a Native American leader called Sitting Bull (played by Michael Greyeyes) in 1890.
Chastain plays the lead, Wedden, who gets involved in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
21. In "It: Chapter Two," Chastain plays an aged-up version of Beverley Marsh from the first movie.
Critic score: 62%
Synopsis: Set 27 years after the first movie, "It: Chapter Two" shows the return of the evil clown Pennyworth, who's back to once again terrorize the town of Derry, Maine. The group of kids that defeated him the first time, the Losers' Club, now must defeat him again as adults.
Chastain plays one of the members of the Losers' Club, Beverley Marsh.
20. Chastain's first horror movie role was in "Mama."
Critic score: 63%
Synopsis: Sisters Lilly and Victoria vanish in the woods the day their parents die. Five years later, they are found alive in a decaying cabin.
Their uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Chastain) welcome them into their home but they did not anticipate that the children will bring something sinister with them.
19. Chastain plays Antonina Zabinski in the war drama, "The Zookeeper's Wife."
Critic score: 64%
Synopsis: "The Zookeeper's Wife" is a war drama based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Diane Ackerman.
Antonina Zabinski (Chastain) and her husband Dr. Jan Zabinski (Johan Heldenbergh) are looking under Warsaw Zoo when Poland is invaded by the Nazis. Jan and Antonina use the zoo to help save the lives of hundreds of Polish Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto.
18. Based on a historical novel, "Lawless" is about a group of brothers selling alcohol during the Prohibition era.
Critic score: 66%
Synopsis: The Bondurant brothers run a bootlegging business, selling liquor during the prohibition period. A war between criminals and police erupts when a deputy (Guy Pearce) from Chicago arrives to try and shut down all bootlegging operations that do not give him a cut.
The crime drama is based on the historical novel, "The Wettest County in the World" by Matt Bondurant. Chastain plays Maggie, a waitress who works for the Bondurant brothers.
17. Chastain plays a televangelist in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye."
Critic score: 66%
Synopsis: "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" is a biopic about the rise and fall of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, played by Chastain. The movie, based on a documentary of the same name, follows Tammy's journey in the 70s and 80s as she creates the world's largest religious broadcasting network and theme park before it all goes downhill.
Andrew Garfield also stars in the film as Tammy's husband, Jim Bakker.
Chastain received an Oscar nomination for best actress for her portrayal.
16. In "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby," Chastain plays the titular character.
Critic score: 66%
Synopsis: "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" follows the lives of Eleanor (Chastain) and Connor (James McAvoy) after the death of their child. Eleanor flees to the suburban home of her wealthy parents while Connor tries to fix their relationship.
15. Chastain starred in Christopher Nolan's space adventure movie "Interstellar."
Critic score: 72%
Synopsis: "Interstellar" is set in the future where Earth is about to become uninhabitable. NASA physicist Professor Brand (Michael Caine) comes up with a plan to transport Earth's population to a new home via a wormhole.
But before they can try out this plan they must send a team of researchers and a former NASA pilot (Matthew McConaughey) through the wormhole and across the galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind's new home.
Chastain plays the child of the NASA pilot, Murph, after a 25-year time jump.
14. In the gothic thriller "Crimson Peak," Chastain plays Lucille Sharpe.
Critic score: 72%
Synopsis: Edith (Mia Wasikowska), the daughter of a wealthy businessman, is swept away to a remote gothic mansion in the English hills after marrying charming inventor Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). Whilst there Edith communicates with the dead to decipher the mystery that haunts her new home.
Meanwhile, Thomas' sister, Lady Lucille (Chastain) keeps guard of her family's dark secrets.
13. Chastain also stars as a lobbyist in "Miss Sloane."
Critic score: 76%
Synopsis: Elizabeth Sloane (Chastain) is one of the most sought-after lobbyists in Washington D.C. However, she becomes the target of powerful new enemies when she decides to join a scrappy boutique firm who are trying to impose regulations on firearms instead of opposing the bill.
12. Chastain's first Oscar nomination was for her role in "The Help."
Critic score: 76%
Synopsis: Set in 1960s Mississippi, "The Help" follows the journey of aspiring author Skeeter (Emma Stone) who decides to interview Black maids during the Civil Rights Movement.
After talking to a number of women, Skeeter decides to write a book from the maids' point of view exposing the racism they faced.
Chastain was nominated for a best supporting actress Academy Award for the role of Celia, an ostracized housewife who befriends one of the maids.
11. In the 2011 thriller "The Debt," Chastain plays an Israeli spy.
Critic score: 77%
Synopsis: In 1965, Rachel Singer (Chastain), an agent from the national intelligence agency of Israel, and her two comrades (Sam Worthington, Marton Csokas) attempted to capture a Nazi war criminal (Jesper Christensen).
The mission failed when the criminal is killed on the streets of East Berlin. However, 30 years later, the war criminal reappears and Rachel (played by Helen Mirren) must return to Eastern Europe to find the truth.
10. Chastain voiced a character in the third and final "Madagascar" movie, "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted."
Critic score: 78%
Synopsis: In the third "Madagascar" movie, the animal pals try to return back to New York's Central Park Zoo. As they travel through Europe, they are chased by a French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand).
Chastain voices Gia, a jaguar from a traveling circus that the animal crew hides out in.
9. Chastain and Ralph Fiennes star as husband and wife in "The Forgiven."
Critic score: 80%
Synopsis: "The Forgiven," based on a book of the same name, explores the reverberations of a random accident in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. This accident affects both the local Muslim community and Western party guests to a grand villa.
Chastain stars as Jo Henninger, the wife of alcoholic David (Ralph Fiennes) who accidentally hits and kills a local boy with his car.
8. Docudrama "Wilde Salomé" starred Chastain as a rising star.
Critic score: 80%
Synopsis: "Wilde Salomé" is a docudrama written, directed, and starring Al Pacino. Pacino explores Oscar Wilde's famous play "Salomé" with Chastain as the titular character. A movie version of the play without the documentary was also released later.
7. Chastain plays Olympic-class skier, entrepreneur, and author Molly Bloom in "Molly's Game."
Critic score: 82%
Synopsis: "Molly's Game" is based on a memoir of the same name about Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested.
The movie follows Molly (Chastain) after she becomes the target of the FBI after her underground poker empire is exposed.
6. "The Tree of Life" is a philosophical film that stars Chastain as a mother.
Critic score: 84%
Synopsis: In this philosophical film, Jack (played by Sean Penn and Hunter McCracken) attempts to mend his troubled relationship with his father (Brad Pitt) whilst trying to find the true meaning of life.
Chastain plays Jack's mother, Mrs. O'Brien.
5. "Scenes From a Marriage" costars Oscar Isaac and Chastain teamed up for the first time in "A Most Violent Year"
Critic score: 90%
Synopsis: Abel (Oscar Isaac), an immigrant fuel supplier in 1981 New York, tries to protect his family and business after corruption and crime plague the city.
Chastain stars as Abel's wife in this crime drama that was a box-office bomb despite receiving critical praise.
4. In "The Martian," Chastain is an astronaut commander trying to save a member of her crew after leaving him on Mars.
Critic score: 91%
Synopsis: Adapted from a novel of the same name, "The Martian" is about an astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) who gets stranded on Mars after his crew blasts off leaving him behind. Watney must find a way to survive the hostile planet until NASA and his crew can come up with a plan to bring him home.
Chastain plays the mission commander of Watney's crew Melissa Lewis.
3. Chastain's second Oscar nomination was for her role in "Zero Dark Thirty."
Critic score: 91%
Synopsis: In this war thriller, Chastain plays a spy named Maya who is tasked with finding Osama bin Laden following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
The movie dramatizes the decade-long manhunt for Laden. Chastain won a Golden Globe and received an Oscar nomination for best actress for her role in this movie.
2. "Coriolanus" is tied as one of Chastain's most critically acclaimed movies.
Critic score: 92%
Synopsis: Ralph Fiennes plays the titular character in this adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. Coriolanus is a general who protects Rome from its enemies. One day, the arrogant general decides to work with his sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler), to destroy the great city after he is expelled from it.
Chastain stars in the movie as Coriolanus' wife, Virgilia.
1. "Take Shelter" is Jessica Chastain's highest-rated movie, according to critics.
Critic score: 92%
Synopsis: Small-town Ohioan Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) starts to have nightmares about an apocalypse. He decides to build a storm shelter in his backyard to protect his loving wife (Chastain) and daughter (Tova Stewart). However, his efforts cause tension in his marriage and community.
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