The Hustle asked Anne Hathaway to play a slick con artist opposite Rebel Wilson, and the chemistry never quite clicks. Jokes land flat, the pacing drags, and the whole thing feels like a rehash of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels without any of the original's charm. Hathaway commits to the accent and the attitude, but there is only so much a good performance can save. This one sits at the bottom for a reason. | © MGM
Alice Through the Looking Glass gave Anne Hathaway more screen time as the White Queen, and somehow that made things worse. The sequel drowns its cast in CGI landscapes and time travel nonsense that never earns its own complexity. Hathaway floats through scenes with that same breathy calm, but there's no real character underneath the costume. Even her fans mostly skip straight past this one. | © Walt Disney Studios
One Day asks Anne Hathaway to play a British woman across two decades, and her accent became the thing everyone talked about instead of the story. The gimmick is smart on paper, checking in with Emma and Dexter on the same date every year, but the movie rushes through moments that the book let breathe. Hathaway still finds real warmth in Emma, especially in the quieter stretches before the ending swings for a gut punch. That ending works on some people and completely loses others, which sums up the whole movie. | © Focus Features
The Idea of You gave Anne Hathaway a role that could have been a punchline and turned it into something people actually rooted for. She plays Solène, a single mom who falls for a boy band frontman half her age, and the movie never treats that gap as a joke. Hathaway grounds the whole thing with real vulnerability, especially when the internet backlash inside the story starts eating at her character. Audiences ended up more invested in this romance than most theatrical rom-coms released that year. | © Amazon Prime Video
Havoc drops Anne Hathaway into a grimy crime thriller where nothing about her role leans on charm. Playing Walker, she gets pulled into Gareth Evans' brutal underworld of dirty cops and drug money gone wrong. The movie leans hard into violence and shadowy city streets, and Hathaway plays it straight instead of soft. It is a strange fit on her resume, and that mismatch is exactly why it lands near the bottom of this list. | © Netflix
The Intern pairs Anne Hathaway's overworked CEO with Robert De Niro's retired widower looking for purpose. Jules built a fashion startup from nothing and now runs herself into the ground trying to keep it alive. Hathaway plays the exhaustion honestly, never turning Jules into a cold girlboss cliche. The movie itself plays things safe, but her performance gives it more heart than the script probably earned. | © Warner Bros. Pictures
Ocean's 8 gave Anne Hathaway the best joke in the entire heist, and she knew exactly what to do with it. Playing Daphne Kluger, a self-obsessed actress who has no idea she is the mark, she leans into vanity so hard it becomes the funniest part of the movie. The rest of the cast plays it cool and controlled, but Hathaway is clearly having a blast being the one person who does not know the con is happening. Her comic timing turns a small supporting role into one people still bring up first. | © Warner Bros. Pictures
The Odyssey hands Anne Hathaway the role of Penelope, the queen holding a kingdom together while everyone assumes her husband is dead. Details are still tightly guarded, but the casting alone signals a bigger emotional weight than typical sword-and-sandals fare. Hathaway sliding into Homer's world through Nolan's lens feels less like a gamble and more like a calculated bet on gravity. Expectations are sky-high, and that pressure is exactly why this entry sits in the middle of her career highlights rather than the top. | © Universal Pictures
Colossal takes a hungover mess of a woman and somehow ties her directly to a giant monster destroying Seoul. Anne Hathaway plays Gloria as someone whose drinking problem literally becomes a weapon of mass destruction whenever she stumbles into a playground at the wrong hour. The movie uses that absurd premise to sneak up on you with a story about abusive relationships and self-destruction. Nobody expected a kaiju movie to double as a metaphor for addiction, and that strange combination is exactly why it stuck with people. | © NEON
Interstellar asks Anne Hathaway to sell a theory about love bending across dimensions, and somehow her performance as Dr. Brand makes that speech land. She spends most of the film as the rational scientist in the room, right up until grief cracks that logic wide open. Christopher Nolan surrounds her with black holes and time dilation, but her scenes with Matthew McConaughey keep the story grounded in something simpler. The science gets complicated. What she's actually playing, the fear of losing everyone you love to time itself - never does. | © Paramount Pictures
Rachel Getting Married threw Anne Hathaway into a family wedding that doubles as a group therapy session gone wrong. She plays Kym, an addict fresh out of rehab, stumbling through toasts and old wounds while everyone pretends the weekend is about her sister instead. The camera stays handheld and close, catching every flinch and passive aggressive jab like it's actual home video. Hathaway strips away every trace of her polished image here, and the result got her first Oscar nomination for a reason. | © Sony Pictures Classics
Les Misérables gave Anne Hathaway about twenty minutes of screen time, and she walked away with the Oscar anyway. She sings I Dreamed a Dream in a single take, no cutaways, no safety net, and you can hear her voice crack in real time. Hathaway also cut her hair on camera and dropped serious weight for the role, chasing a kind of physical misery that matches Fantine's collapse. It is a small part that somehow ends up being the one people remember most. | © Universal Pictures
Brokeback Mountain gave Anne Hathaway a role that quietly complicates the whole movie, playing Lureen as a woman who senses more than she says out loud. Her transformation from a bubbly rodeo girl into a hardened, disappointed wife happens almost entirely in the margins of scenes she is not supposed to dominate. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger carry the romance, but Hathaway makes the collateral damage feel real instead of decorative. That restraint is what makes her work here age so well. | © Focus Features
The Devil Wears Prada gave Anne Hathaway the role people still quote at her decades later. She plays Andy as someone who starts out rolling her eyes at fashion and slowly gets swallowed by it, which is a much harder trick to sell than it sounds. Meryl Streep gets the iconic lines, sure, but Hathaway is doing the actual work of showing ambition curdling into something uglier. This is the performance that proved she could hold her own next to a legend and not get erased. | © 20th Century Fox
Anne Hathaway has come a long way from her Disney beginnings, evolving into an Oscar-winning force who can do comedy, tragedy, villainy, and everything in between. Her filmography is packed with range, and picking the best is no easy task. Here's a ranking of Anne Hathaway's top movie roles, from worst to best.
