Jennifer Lopez’s Best Movie Roles, Ranked

In this mile-a-minute buddy cop comedy, Lopez, Woody Harrelson, and Wesley Snipes play transit cops in the New York City subway. Along with a serial killer known as the Torch stalking the tunnels, Harrelson’s character, laden with gambling debts, concocts a scheme to rob a “money train” that carries subway revenue.

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If you’re a thriller fan, you’ll enjoy this Blumhouse nail-biter, where Lopez has to fend off her new, younger neighbor who becomes dangerously obsessed with her after a one-night stand.

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El Cantante doesn't reinvent the biopic wheel but put this on if you want to see a cool fictionalization of salsa legend Héctor Lavoe with solid chemistry between co-stars Lopez and Marc Anthony. They shot this during their highly publicized marriage.

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She’s not a main character, but Lopez’s voice is unmistakable as Azteca, who is a worker ant buddy of main character Z, played by Woody Allen. She eventually begins a romance with Z’s best friend Weaver, played by Patrick Warburton.

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This rom-com got an unfair shake from critics, but it’s got two romance movie superstars as the leads in Lopez and Matthew McConaughey. Lopez plays wedding planner Mary Fiore while McConaughey is pediatrician Steve Edison.

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Lopez plays a divorced real estate agent who gets in on a heist scheme cooked up by Jason Statham’s character, Parker. She does a great job delivering jokes and holds her own in a star-studded cast including Wendell Pierce, Bobby Cannavale, and Patti LuPone.

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Lopez got to exercise her dramatic chops with this film by the Swedish director Lasse Hallström. She plays Jean, the estranged daughter-in-law of Rancher Einar, played by Robert Redford. Jean comes to his ranch with her daughter Griff (Becca Gardner), Einar's granddaughter, to escape an abusive boyfriend. Both people are still grieving the loss of her husband and his son Griffin who died in a car crash years ago.

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In this empowering drama thriller, J.Lo plays Slim, an abused wife who learns to fight back and get her life back.

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This crime drama, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, has Lopez and Viola Davis playing mothers who meet in a support group for parents of murdered children. Lopez’s character Eve helps Viola Davis’ Lila investigate the murder of her son Stephon, and get revenge.

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There’s just a special quality to these mid-aughts romantic movies, and Shall We Dance? is a charming romp held up by the great lead performances by Lopez, Richard Gere, and Susan Sarandon. Lopez plays a teacher at a dance studio, which helps Gere’s character through a mid-life crisis when he tries to take classes there to get a chance to meet her.

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In this action comedy about a destination wedding gone completely wrong, Lopez and Josh Duhamel have to save their families and other guests after they escape the pirates that take everyone else hostage.

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Lopez once again carries this romantic comedy, where her character Maya, after being passed up for a promotion at her store manager job, pursues a new corporate career by getting a fake resume and Harvard degree from her godson. Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini, and Milo Ventimiglia also star.

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Lopez gets to go all-out action star in this intense thriller, where she plays a former U.S. government operative who has to work with the FBI when her daughter is kidnapped by criminals. The story won’t blow your mind, but Lopez shines in the starring role, and it has some fun fight scenes.

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Anaconda might be the stuff of nightmares, but it’s also classic J.Lo. In this film, she plays Terri, a member of a documentary film crew captured by a snake hunter attempting to take down a green anaconda in the Amazon River.

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Even with a heavy-hitting ensemble cast like Constance Wu, Cardi B, Lili Reinhart, and Keke Palmer, Lopez steals the show as Ramona Vega, a veteran stripper who concocts the plan to dose rich clients with drugs to rob them.

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In one of her most memorable roles, Lopez plays Tejano singer Selena, who was murdered by her fan club president. Even critics who had issues with the film’s plot had to concede that Lopez’s portrayal of Selena was star-making and lifted its overall quality.

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In this crime comedy, Lopez stars opposite George Clooney, who plays a bank robber who kidnaps and falls for a U.S. Marshal. Lopez keeps up with Clooney in every frame of this slick comedy, and it’s still such a fun watch many years later.

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