What is the best Jessica Chastain movie?

Oscar winners share space with genre detours and quiet dramas that festival crowds still argue over.

1. 1
   Zero Dark Thirty

   Kathryn Bigelow's 2012 thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, which won Chastain a Golden Globe as CIA analyst Maya.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Interstellar

   Christopher Nolan's 2014 space epic, with Chastain as the adult Murph Cooper.
   809pts
3. 3
   Miss Sloane

   2016 political thriller starring Chastain as a ruthless Washington lobbyist.
   624pts
4. 4
   The Good Nurse

   2022 Netflix true-crime drama, with Chastain as nurse Amy Loughren opposite Eddie Redmayne.
   624pts
5. 5
   Lawless

   John Hillcoat's 2012 Prohibition-era crime drama, with Chastain alongside Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf.
   624pts
6. 6
   It Chapter Two

   The 2019 sequel to Stephen King's 'It', with Chastain as the adult Beverly Marsh.
   485pts
7. 7
   The Help

   2011 adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel that earned Chastain an Oscar nomination as Celia Foote.
   485pts
8. 8
   Mama

   2013 supernatural horror film executive-produced by Guillermo del Toro, with Chastain as a reluctant guardian of two feral girls.
   397pts
9. 9
   The Debt

   Espionage thriller, released in the US in 2011, in which Chastain plays the young Mossad agent Rachel Singer.
   397pts
10. 10
    The Martian

    Ridley Scott's 2015 survival film, with Chastain as mission commander Melissa Lewis.
    397pts
11. 11
    Take Shelter

    Jeff Nichols' 2011 drama in which Chastain plays the wife of a man haunted by apocalyptic visions, played by Michael Shannon.
    291pts
12. 12
    A Most Violent Year

    J.C. Chandor's 2014 crime drama set in 1981 New York, with Chastain opposite Oscar Isaac.
    291pts
13. 13
    Crimson Peak

    Guillermo del Toro's 2015 gothic romance, with Chastain as the sinister Lucille Sharpe.
    291pts
14. 14
    Molly's Game

    Aaron Sorkin's 2017 directing debut, with Chastain as high-stakes poker organiser Molly Bloom.
    291pts
15. 15
    The Tree of Life

    Terrence Malick's 2011 Palme d'Or winner, with Chastain as the mother of a 1950s Texas family opposite Brad Pitt.
    0pts
16. 16
    Memory

    Michel Franco's 2023 drama, with Chastain as a social worker opposite Peter Sarsgaard.
    0pts
17. 17
    The Eyes of Tammy Faye

    2021 biopic of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker that won Chastain the Academy Award for Best Actress.
    0pts

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