If you went back in time to 2006 and told someone who’d just seen The Devil Wears Prada that Miranda Priestly’s arrogant co-assistant would be one of the most beloved movie stars in just a few short years, they’d think you were crazy. Emily Blunt played the villain role in that movie perfectly, but it also meant she came off as really unlikable.
Thankfully, Blunt has been given plenty of chances to show her range since then – as a moralist FBI agent, a pregnant mother in a post-apocalyptic world, even Mary Poppins – so here are Emily Blunt’s 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes.
10 Mary Poppins Returns (79%)
Disney’s reboot of Mary Poppins had a very similar premise to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as it used the iconography and old stars of its franchise to incite nostalgia in its audience, but it also told its own story and brought in new characters.
The difference is that Mary Poppins Returns’ new storyline isn’t just a shameless rehash of the original’s, so in essence, it showed The Force Awakens where it went wrong. Emily Blunt stars as the title character in a turn that almost lives up to the original, while Lin-Manuel Miranda and Emily Mortimer provide strong support.
9 Charlie Wilson’s War (82%)
Emily Blunt only has a minor role in this satirical political drama, but she’s still memorable in it. Tom Hanks stars as the title character, a Congressman who spends his free time around all the women and drugs that you’d expect from a Congressman. Over the course of the film, he intervenes in the Soviet-Afghan War after witnessing the atrocities going on there.
There’s an incredible team behind the film, with the great Mike Nichols directing what would be his final film, Aaron Sorkin providing a typically sharp screenplay, and a central duo of Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman all bringing their A-game.
8 Your Sister’s Sister (83%)
Helmed by Lynn Shelton, who most recently delivered the delightful, character-focused comedy Sword of Trust, Your Sister’s Sister finds palpable humanity in a blend of comedy and drama. A woman’s male friend’s brother dies, so she invites him to her family’s island getaway to help him process his emotions, and there, they encounter the woman’s lesbian sister.
The three characters each reveal fascinating truths about themselves over the course of the vacation. It’s a cabin-fever story, where instead of going insane and killing each other, the characters just get to know each other better and find more common ground.
7 The Wind Rises (88%)
Studio Ghibli is one of the finest animation houses in the world, regularly turning out anime that provokes all kinds of emotions. The studio has proven to be so popular around the world that it can attract A-list Hollywood names to provide their voices for the English dubs of their films.
The English dub of their delightful animated biopic of WWII plane designer Jiro Horikoshi, The Wind Rises, for example, stars real-life couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Martin Short, and William H. Macy. Blunt took the role of Nahoko Satomi, which was played by Miori Takimoto in the Japanese original.
6 TIE: Edge of Tomorrow (90%)
No one expected this movie to be any good. Its premise is essentially “Independence Day meets Groundhog Day,” which does, admittedly, sound terrible. But then something incredible happened: director Doug Liman and his stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt pulled it off.
Cruise plays a soldier in a war against aliens who finds that whenever he gets killed, he just wakes up on the same day again. He seeks out the help of Blunt’s character, who trains him to use his endless time loop to win the war against the alien invaders. We’ve been promised a sequel that’s on the way.
5 TIE: My Summer of Love (90%)
This British drama was actually the first-ever theatrically released movie to feature Emily Blunt. She plays an upper-middle-class woman who develops a romantic relationship with a working-class woman, while her freshly-released-from-prison brother, who became a born-again Christian while he was behind bars, gets in the way.
There’s a lot going on in the character-driven narrative, with the focus always on the theme of the human need to feel loved. The actors improvised a lot of the movie’s dialogue from an incomplete 35-page script (movie scripts are usually 100-120 pages in length). The director Pawel Pawlikowski deftly balances the bittersweet tone of the film.
4 Sicario (92%)
Denis Villeneuve is easily one of the greatest directors working today, and he’s proven himself in a bunch of different genres: cerebral sci-fi, shocking real-world drama, immersive futuristic neo-noir, etc. With Sicario, he showed audiences that he could helm a mean action thriller.
It stars Emily Blunt as an in-over-her-head FBI agent who is sent across the border to assist in the takedown of a Mexican drug cartel. She finds her strict moral code tested by shady government officials played by Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, while the grisly things she witnesses in Mexico rock her to her core.
3 Looper (93%)
Half a decade before Star Wars fans would vilify him and turn him into one of the most hated directors in the world, Rian Johnson gave us this sharp, intelligent take on the sci-fi actioner and the concept of time travel.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a specific type of hitman that kills targets as they are sent back in time from the future. One day, his own future self, played by Bruce Willis, is sent to be his next victim. The plot gets pretty convoluted from there, as the older and younger versions of this guy team up to alter the course of history.
2 TIE: The Muppets (95%)
Jason Segel and Amy Adams are the real human stars of The Muppets, the self-aware 2011 reboot of Jim Henson’s iconic franchise, but as with any Muppets movie, there is an abundance of A-list cameos. Emily Blunt is one of these, playing Miss Piggy’s receptionist. Guest stars in Muppets movies can either play themselves or a fleeting fictional character who only appears briefly, but leaves a big impression.
It’s arguable that the latter is the funniest. If she’s only sticking around for one short scene, then seeing Blunt playing Miss Piggy’s secretary is infinitely funnier than seeing her play a fictionalized version of herself.
1 TIE: A Quiet Place (95%)
It’s not easy for a TV star who has become iconic for playing one role to break out and be considered as an actor with range and not just that character in other movies and TV shows, but that’s exactly what John Krasinski did when he directed, co-wrote, and starred alongside his real-life wife Emily Blunt in the mostly silent horror thriller A Quiet Place.
In a post-apocalyptic future dominated by bloodthirsty aliens that feast on human flesh and have incredible hearing, one family struggles to survive in a life of nearly complete silence on a farm. Krasinski and his production team used sound masterfully in the film.
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