19. Dying Young (1991)
Spoiler: no one dies in this romantic whimsy about a wealthy leukemia patient who falls for his working-class caregiver. Of course he does! It’s Roberts who looks like a pre-Raphaelite muse! Director Joel Schumacher ignores the moral implications of this setting, but turns it into a visual treat for Roberts’ fetishists. Brad Pitt wanders Mexico in search of an antique pistol, but forget about him, because the best scenes in this ill-fated road-rom-thriller belong to Roberts, as his disaffected girlfriend, who bonds with the gay hitman (James Gandolfini in the top form ) who kidnaps her en route to Las Vegas. Roberts with Tom Skerritt in Steel Magnolias. Photo: Tristar Pictures/Allstar “I’ll just get a kidney transplant, I’ll be fine,” says Roberts, earning her first Oscar nomination for her performance as the diabetic daughter. Meanwhile, the screen’s most formidable divas (Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine et al) try to outdo each other’s southern impressions in this terrifying hen party favourite. Roberts is pitted against a classy Meryl Streep, but holds her own and earns her fourth Oscar nomination as part of a haunted family reunited in Oklahoma when the alcoholic patriarch disappears. Tracy Letts adapted his own play with endless, tiresome truth-telling around the dinner table.
15. Sleeping With the Enemy (1991)
Roberts plays a wife so desperate to escape her abusive husband that she packs up her towels, fakes her own death and moves to Iowa, where she meets a nicer kid and learns to wear baggy jumpers. This domestic violence thriller with a slasher film vibe is arguably the height of Julia’s baggy jumper phase. Sleeping With the Enemy. Photo: 20th Century Fox/Allstar
14. Closer (2004)
Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman and Roberts (playing a photographer) swap partners, have (offscreen) sex, and discuss infidelity with brutal but not terribly insightful honesty in Mike Nichols’ film about the play by Patrick Marber in London. The rude dialogue remains stubbornly theatrical, though Roberts’ face is worth a thousand words.
13. Mystic Pizza (1988)
Roberts made her breakthrough in this likable female coming-of-age indie about three Portuguese-American teenagers who work at a pizzeria in a Connecticut seaside town. Annabeth Gish and Lili Taylor are both great, but it’s hard to take your eyes off Roberts, who has the teeth of a beautiful shark. So you think you can resist Dakota Fanning adopting a pig or Oprah Winfrey as a talking goose? Think about it again. As the voice of the eponymous spider, Roberts exudes wisdom in this live-action version of EB White’s children’s classic, and I defy you not to roll your eyes.
11. The Normal Heart (2014)
Ryan Murphy’s film about the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York has all the fluff you’d expect from an HBO adaptation of Larry Kramer’s play, but it still hits the spot. Roberts gives a crushing display of frustrated rage as a doctor gathering information about the mysterious virus that is killing her patients. Roberts and Clive Owen star as rival corporate spies in this globe-trotting romantic caper, Tony Gilroy’s follow-up to Michael Clayton. Fix all the plot twists and chronological juggling and you’re left with less than meets the eye, but there are worse things than watching two good-looking actors smile insincerely and have sex with each other in a glamorous setting. Roberts with (from left) Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay and Izabela Vidovic in Wonder. Photo: Lionsgate/Allstar A 10-year-old boy with a rare facial deformity starts school, where he must learn to make friends and avoid bullies in a kind of heartwarming romp where you start cynically scoffing but end up drooling. Jacob Tremblay nails the title role, with Roberts supporting him so beautifully as his mom, you wish she could be your mom too.
8. The Pelican Brief (1993)
Roberts looks a lot like the Bubbies as a law student who becomes the target of assassins after stumbling into a not-so-interesting conspiracy in this John Grisham thriller. Denzel Washington, who has reportedly rejected any hint of an interracial romance, plays a reporter who helps her escape from killers. At least Julia is wearing a baggy jumper, but some Hitchcock-esque flirtation wouldn’t have gone amiss. Mike Nichols’ latest film stars Tom Hanks as a real-life Texas congressman who in the 1980s forms a treacherous alliance with a rogue CIA man and a right-wing socialite to supply weapons to Afghan freedom fighters. Roberts is formidable in crimped blonde curls as this archetypal trumpeter, unclogging her mascara with a safety pin while rattling off facts about surface-to-air missiles. With Clooney in 2004’s Ocean’s Twelve. Photo: Warner Bros./Allstar Roberts slips easily into the loose cast of the sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s caper, which at times approaches Pure Cinema with its absurd plot (stock certificates, the Fabergé egg, who cares), poignant soundtrack and cool stylization. Sit back and enjoy movie stars looking fantastic walking around Amsterdam, Paris and Rome where Ms. Ossian (Roberts) plays … famous movie star Julia Roberts. Roberts has a ball playing a classic femme fatale in George Clooney’s directorial debut, adapted by Charlie Kaufman from the fictional memoir of Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), an American game show host who claims to be posing as a CIA assassin. Julia and Sam’s relationship unravels in one of those classic blunders – a poisoned exchange of coffee cups. Sex worker meets millionaire on Hollywood Boulevard. he pays her to shop for a dress. they fall in love That this disastrous tosh works as a romantic comedy is entirely down to Roberts, the role that catapulted her to stardom, and Richard Gere, who was visibly impressed by this stunning popsy in thigh-high boots. He walks like a truck driver – but so did Garbo. With Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. Photo: Touchstone Pictures/Allstar She is a famous movie star. runs a bookshop just off Portobello Road. Like Richard Curtis’ other scripts, this is more a series of loosely connected episodes than a developing narrative. But some of the episodes are fun, and Roberts (deftly playing a version of herself) and Hugh Grant are both delightful in this prosecco bubble of a romcom. Our Lady of the Hollow Stomach plays the thinnest food writer in movie history, but manages to keep us on our side despite reprehensible behavior as she tries to sabotage her male friend’s engagement. Painful Jealousy gets a bubbly camp makeover, three Bart Bacharach singalongs, seven gags and a final line from Rupert Everett as Julia’s gay boyfriend. Roberts displays carefully calibrated cleavage as a gleeful single mom fighting for the little people against corporate America in this true-life legal drama that won her a Best Actress Oscar. Director Steven Soderbergh simply tunes her up and lets her loose. Erin isn’t always nice (and not just to other women), but it’s her tenderness that makes her so impressive.
title: “The 20 Best Julia Roberts Movies Ranked Film Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-25” author: “Amanda Bee”
19. Dying Young (1991)
Spoiler: no one dies in this romantic whimsy about a wealthy leukemia patient who falls for his working-class caregiver. Of course he does! It’s Roberts who looks like a pre-Raphaelite muse! Director Joel Schumacher ignores the moral implications of this setting, but turns it into a visual treat for Roberts’ fetishists. Brad Pitt wanders Mexico in search of an antique pistol, but forget about him, because the best scenes in this ill-fated road-rom-thriller belong to Roberts, as his disaffected girlfriend, who bonds with the gay hitman (James Gandolfini in the top form ) who kidnaps her en route to Las Vegas. Roberts with Tom Skerritt in Steel Magnolias. Photo: Tristar Pictures/Allstar “I’ll just get a kidney transplant, I’ll be fine,” says Roberts, earning her first Oscar nomination for her performance as the diabetic daughter. Meanwhile, the screen’s most formidable divas (Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine et al) try to outdo each other’s southern impressions in this terrifying hen party favourite. Roberts is pitted against a classy Meryl Streep, but holds her own and earns her fourth Oscar nomination as part of a haunted family reunited in Oklahoma when the alcoholic patriarch disappears. Tracy Letts adapted his own play with endless, tiresome truth-telling around the dinner table.
15. Sleeping With the Enemy (1991)
Roberts plays a wife so desperate to escape her abusive husband that she packs up her towels, fakes her own death and moves to Iowa, where she meets a nicer kid and learns to wear baggy jumpers. This domestic violence thriller with a slasher film vibe is arguably the height of Julia’s baggy jumper phase. Sleeping With the Enemy. Photo: 20th Century Fox/Allstar
14. Closer (2004)
Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman and Roberts (playing a photographer) swap partners, have (offscreen) sex, and discuss infidelity with brutal but not terribly insightful honesty in Mike Nichols’ film about the play by Patrick Marber in London. The rude dialogue remains stubbornly theatrical, though Roberts’ face is worth a thousand words.
13. Mystic Pizza (1988)
Roberts made her breakthrough in this likable female coming-of-age indie about three Portuguese-American teenagers who work at a pizzeria in a Connecticut seaside town. Annabeth Gish and Lili Taylor are both great, but it’s hard to take your eyes off Roberts, who has the teeth of a beautiful shark. So you think you can resist Dakota Fanning adopting a pig or Oprah Winfrey as a talking goose? Think about it again. As the voice of the eponymous spider, Roberts exudes wisdom in this live-action version of EB White’s children’s classic, and I defy you not to roll your eyes.
11. The Normal Heart (2014)
Ryan Murphy’s film about the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York has all the fluff you’d expect from an HBO adaptation of Larry Kramer’s play, but it still hits the spot. Roberts gives a crushing display of frustrated rage as a doctor gathering information about the mysterious virus that is killing her patients. Roberts and Clive Owen star as rival corporate spies in this globe-trotting romantic caper, Tony Gilroy’s follow-up to Michael Clayton. Fix all the plot twists and chronological juggling and you’re left with less than meets the eye, but there are worse things than watching two good-looking actors smile insincerely and have sex with each other in a glamorous setting. Roberts with (from left) Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay and Izabela Vidovic in Wonder. Photo: Lionsgate/Allstar A 10-year-old boy with a rare facial deformity starts school, where he must learn to make friends and avoid bullies in a kind of heartwarming romp where you start cynically scoffing but end up drooling. Jacob Tremblay nails the title role, with Roberts supporting him so beautifully as his mom, you wish she could be your mom too.
8. The Pelican Brief (1993)
Roberts looks a lot like the Bubbies as a law student who becomes the target of assassins after stumbling into a not-so-interesting conspiracy in this John Grisham thriller. Denzel Washington, who has reportedly rejected any hint of an interracial romance, plays a reporter who helps her escape from killers. At least Julia is wearing a baggy jumper, but some Hitchcock-esque flirtation wouldn’t have gone amiss. Mike Nichols’ latest film stars Tom Hanks as a real-life Texas congressman who in the 1980s forms a treacherous alliance with a rogue CIA man and a right-wing socialite to supply weapons to Afghan freedom fighters. Roberts is formidable in crimped blonde curls as this archetypal trumpeter, unclogging her mascara with a safety pin while rattling off facts about surface-to-air missiles. With Clooney in 2004’s Ocean’s Twelve. Photo: Warner Bros./Allstar Roberts slips easily into the loose cast of the sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s caper, which at times approaches Pure Cinema with its absurd plot (stock certificates, the Fabergé egg, who cares), poignant soundtrack and cool stylization. Sit back and enjoy movie stars looking fantastic walking around Amsterdam, Paris and Rome where Ms. Ossian (Roberts) plays … famous movie star Julia Roberts. Roberts has a ball playing a classic femme fatale in George Clooney’s directorial debut, adapted by Charlie Kaufman from the fictional memoir of Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), an American game show host who claims to be posing as a CIA assassin. Julia and Sam’s relationship unravels in one of those classic blunders – a poisoned exchange of coffee cups. Sex worker meets millionaire on Hollywood Boulevard. he pays her to shop for a dress. they fall in love That this disastrous tosh works as a romantic comedy is entirely down to Roberts, the role that catapulted her to stardom, and Richard Gere, who was visibly impressed by this stunning popsy in thigh-high boots. He walks like a truck driver – but so did Garbo. With Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. Photo: Touchstone Pictures/Allstar She is a famous movie star. runs a bookshop just off Portobello Road. Like Richard Curtis’ other scripts, this is more a series of loosely connected episodes than a developing narrative. But some of the episodes are fun, and Roberts (deftly playing a version of herself) and Hugh Grant are both delightful in this prosecco bubble of a romcom. Our Lady of the Hollow Stomach plays the thinnest food writer in movie history, but manages to keep us on our side despite reprehensible behavior as she tries to sabotage her male friend’s engagement. Painful Jealousy gets a bubbly camp makeover, three Bart Bacharach singalongs, seven gags and a final line from Rupert Everett as Julia’s gay boyfriend. Roberts displays carefully calibrated cleavage as a gleeful single mom fighting for the little people against corporate America in this true-life legal drama that won her a Best Actress Oscar. Director Steven Soderbergh simply tunes her up and lets her loose. Erin isn’t always nice (and not just to other women), but it’s her tenderness that makes her so impressive.
