What is the best Mark Ruffalo movie of all time?

A master of understated intensity, his resume spans investigative journalism, superhero spectacle, and devastating domestic drama. Which performance sticks with you?

Spotlight

The 2015 Oscar-winning journalism drama in which Ruffalo plays reporter Michael Rezendes investigating clergy sexual abuse for The Boston Globe.

1/15

The Kids Are All Right

The 2010 dramedy in which Ruffalo plays the sperm donor who disrupts the lives of a lesbian couple and their teenage children.

2/15

You Can Count on Me

The 2000 Kenneth Lonergan debut drama in which Ruffalo plays a drifter who reconnects with his single-mother sister after years away.

3/15

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The 2004 Michel Gondry sci-fi romance in which Ruffalo plays Stan, a memory-erasure technician who erases past relationships.

4/15

Zodiac

The 2007 David Fincher crime epic in which Ruffalo plays SF detective Dave Toschi hunting the elusive Zodiac Killer.

5/15

Shutter Island

The 2010 Martin Scorsese psychological thriller in which Ruffalo plays Chuck Aule, partner to a detective investigating a missing asylum patient.

6/15

The Avengers

The 2012 Marvel blockbuster in which Ruffalo first plays Bruce Banner, bringing a thoughtful, reluctant edge to the Hulk.

7/15

Dark Waters

The 2019 Todd Haynes environmental legal drama in which Ruffalo plays attorney Rob Bilott, who exposed DuPont's decades-long toxic contamination.

8/15

Foxcatcher

The 2014 true-crime drama in which Ruffalo plays Dave Schultz, an Olympic wrestling champion under the dangerous patronage of John du Pont.

9/15

Now You See Me

The 2013 heist thriller in which Ruffalo plays an FBI agent investigating a team of illusionist bank robbers.

10/15

Avengers: Infinity War

The 2018 MCU crossover in which Ruffalo's Bruce Banner struggles to control the Hulk against the greatest threat the universe has known.

11/15

Begin Again

The 2013 John Carney music drama in which Ruffalo plays a down-on-his-luck record producer who discovers a talented singer-songwriter.

12/15

13 Going on 30

The 2004 romantic comedy in which Ruffalo plays Matt, the childhood best friend of a woman who magically skips forward to age 30.

13/15

Collateral

The 2004 Michael Mann thriller in which Ruffalo plays Detective Ray Fanning, racing to stop Tom Cruise's hitman before dawn.

14/15

The Normal Heart

The 2014 HBO film in which Ruffalo plays AIDS activist Ned Weeks fighting for recognition of the epidemic in 1980s New York.

15/15