Angelina Jolie’s Movies Ranked

By Joe Leydon

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Angelina Jolie is back again this week with blood in her eye, evil in her heart and horns on her head to reprise her aggressively colorful portrayal of the title character in “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.” So we thought it might be a good time to look back at some highlights — and lowlights — of her movie career — as a performer, that is.

Coming up next, the Oscar winner has Peter Pan prequel “Come Away,” the Taylor Sheridan-directed drama “Those Who Wish Me Dead” and Marvel’s “Eternals,” in which she plays Thena.

Jolie has also delved into directing in the last decade, helming “In the Land of Blood and Honey” in 2011, “Unbroken” in 2014, “By the Sea” in 2015 and “First They Killed My Father” in 2017.

Jolie has also focused much of her time on humanitarian causes, completing dozens of field missions and traveling to war zones to meet with U.S. troops and refugees. She credits her experiences filming “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” with opening her eyes to the situation in Cambodia, the setting of “First They Killed My Father.”

The daughter of actor Jon Voight, she made her acting debut as a child in Hal Ashby’s “Lookin’ to Get Out,” which starred her father.