All 10 Best Anya Taylor-Joy Movies Ranked (Best to Worst)

Robert Eggers builds an overwhelming atmosphere of isolation in 1630s New England, using natural candlelit gloom, authentic Jacobean dialogue, and Mark Korven's dissonant score to chart a family's descent into religious hysteria. The film refuses jump scares, choosing instead to let creeping psychological rot strangle its characters. At the center stands Thomasin, played with astonishing emotional maturity and poise. Taylor-Joy commands the screen not with theatrical bombast, but with guarded stillness and an aching desire for liberation. Her final, chillingly sublime capitulation to the dark woods announced an undeniable cinematic force, establishing the singular gaze and intelligence that remain her artistic signature.

Stepping into boots previously worn by Charlize Theron sounded like a fool's errand, but George Miller crafts an operatic, novelistic tragedy out of the Wasteland that stands tall alongside Fury Road. Spanning decades of grueling survival, the film trades pure speed for mythic scale, detailing the harsh mechanics of grease, warlords, and stolen innocence. Taylor-Joy barely speaks thirty lines across two hours, yet her searing glare and disciplined physical commitment carry the entire emotional weight of the picture. She captures the character's feral grief and calculated ferocity, cementing her status as an action lead capable of genuine dramatic gravitas.

Mark Mylod's pitch-black culinary satire traps a coterie of pretentious elites on a private island, systematically dismantling the performative narcissism of modern consumer culture. The dialogue crackles with wicked misanthropy, framed by crisp cinematography and precise editorial pacing. Playing Margot, an uninvited working-class skeptic across from Ralph Fiennes' tyrannical Chef Slowik, Taylor-Joy provides the essential grounding wire. Her grounded realism, unimpressed sneers, and street-smart survival instinct crack open the dining room's suffocating pretension. It remains one of her most entertaining showcases, demonstrating immaculate comedic timing and icy resolve in equal measure.

Brutal, uncompromising, and drenched in dirt, mud, and entrails, Robert Eggers' Icelandic revenge saga marries bloody historical realism with ancient pagan mysticism. Alexander Skarsgård rampages through 10th-century landscapes with lupine frenzy, but the narrative requires an intellectual counterbalance to remain compelling beyond sheer carnage. Taylor-Joy steps into that void as Olga of the Birch Forest, a captive Slavic sorceress who weaponizes cunning where raw muscle fails. Her enigmatic, ethereal presence pierces through the relentless testosterone, reaffirming her extraordinary shorthand with Eggers and grounding the blood-soaked spectacle with eerie, primal wisdom.

M. Night Shyamalan revived his career with this tightly wound chamber piece, trapping three teenage girls in an underground bunker with a man wrestling twenty-three fractured personalities. While James McAvoy delivers a flashy, high-wire transformation, the film gains its actual spine from Casey Cooke's quiet resourcefulness. Rather than playing a conventional screaming final girl, Taylor-Joy infuses Casey with the guarded, observant survival instincts born of real-world childhood abuse. Her muted reactions and calculated empathy drive the story's suspense, proving her uncanny ability to project profound internal resilience without leaning on overt melodrama.

Edgar Wright trades his signature rapid-fire comedy for a neon-drenched psychological thriller, dragging the audience into a stylized nightmare where 1960s London nostalgia collapses into seedy exploitation. The production design, dazzling mirror choreography, and swinging soundtrack create an intoxicating sensory storm. Taylor-Joy appears as Sandie, an aspiring singer whose initial elegance and magnetic allure slowly curdle into tragic desperation. Performing a haunting a cappella rendition of 'Downtown', she embodies the intoxicating glamour of the era before letting its heartbreak shatter across her features, elevating the film even as its third-act narrative logic wobbles.

Illumination and Nintendo deliver a colorful, kinetic sprint through the Mushroom Kingdom that prioritizes joyful nostalgia and eye-popping visual fidelity over narrative ambition. Directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic keep the pacing frantic, filling every frame with beloved game iconography and orchestral flourishes. Stepping into the voice booth as Princess Peach, Taylor-Joy avoids the helpless damsel archetype entirely, voicing the monarch as an assertive, agile, and protective warrior leader. Her brisk vocal performance brings infectious confidence to the ensemble, proving her commercial versatility within a billion-dollar family entertainment juggernaut.

M. Night Shyamalan's ambitious attempt to fuse the grounded realism of Unbreakable with the heightened horror of Split produces an uneven, philosophically confused climax. Confining the legendary comic-book trio inside a psychiatric ward strips away much of the kinetic tension that made its predecessors work. Reprising her role as Casey Cooke, Taylor-Joy is unfortunately relegated to the sidelines, functioning more as a thematic cheerleader for Kevin Wendell Crumb than an active narrative participant. Despite the script's limitations, she brings genuine tenderness and sorrow to her brief appearances, extracting emotional resonance from thin material.

Scott Derrickson balances high-concept creature horror with an unlikely military romance in this glossy streaming offering, detailing two snipers stationed in isolated guard posts above an abyss hiding lethal secrets. Miles Teller and Taylor-Joy exchange long-distance banter before chaos erupts, relying on their individual star wattage to bridge awkward tonal shifts between romantic banter and bullet-riddled monster action. While the film struggles under predictable narrative beats and CGI overload, Taylor-Joy injects her combat-ready operative with sharp focus and deadpan charisma, making an otherwise disposable genre exercise moderately watchable.

Slated to continue Nintendo and Illumination's box office dominance, this cosmic sequel exists primarily on production slates and intellectual property forecasts rather than actual artistic legacy. While the prospect of adapting iconic zero-gravity platforming mechanics into lush studio animation promises eye-popping spectacle, the film remains an untested commercial placeholder. Taylor-Joy is slated to return as Princess Peach, though her involvement will inevitably be confined to standard voice-booth duties tailored to merchandise-friendly family humor. Sitting at the absolute bottom of this list simply by virtue of being an unrealized sequel, it represents the purely transactional edge of modern franchise filmmaking.