Margot Robbie 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

Margot Robbie is a Hollywood star unlike any other. She is incredibly versatile, devoting herself to filmmaking both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. While she has yet to win an Oscar and is still in the early days of her career, she is racking up the nominations and many fans feel that it’s just a matter of time for this Australian beauty.

As fans wait in anticipation for Robbie’s next films, it is fun to go over her best movies so far. At the same time, it’s interesting to see which of her movies have come under harsh criticism over the years.

10 Best: Z For Zachariah, 79%

This 2015 movie is a post-apocalyptic thriller that stars Robbie as a woman who lives at a secluded family farm and comes across a man with an anti-radiation suit, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Robbie went for the role because she was keen to show off her acting range around the time that The Wolf of Wall Street was due to come out.

“I kind of wanted to show them that I was capable of doing something else,” Robbie told Vogue during an interview. “And that I was keen to do something else.”

9 Best: The Wolf Of Wall Street, 80%

As Naomi Lapaglia in The Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie definitely made quite a statement, so much so that fans can’t get enough of some of her famous lines from the movie. Around that time, Robbie wasn’t much of an established personality yet in Hollywood. Nonetheless, she held her own opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, something she also showed director Martin Scorsese during her improvised audition for the movie.

In an article for TIME, Scorsese revealed that Robbie surprised everyone “by hauling off and giving Leonardo DiCaprio a thunderclap of a slap on the face.”

8 Best: Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, 85%

Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is easily one of director Quentin Tarantino’s best movies. It’s also arguably one of the best movies about Hollywood, in general. In the film, Robbie portrayed the late actress Sharon Tate, who was among the victims of the Charles Manson murders.

While speaking with Digital Spy, Robbie said that playing Tate onscreen was a real “chance for people to really appreciate the life she lived as opposed to remembering her for her death.”

7 Best: The Big Short, 88%

The Big Short is one of those movies that somehow makes the finance industry look sexy. In the movie, Robbie plays an uncredited role wherein she is filmed enjoying a bubble bath while delivering a monologue to explain some financial jargon. The movie is based on a book written by Michael Lewis (who also wrote Moneyball).

According to Lewis, the movie’s writer and director, Adam McKay, had some alternate ideas for Robbie’s bathtub scene. “He had Beyoncé,” Lewis told Slate. “He had Scarlett Johansson under a waterfall, rather than Margot Robbie in a bathtub.”

6 Best: I, Tonya, 89%

Unbeknownst to many, I, Tonya is a movie that Robbie took upon herself to produce. The biopic is based on the life of figure skater Tonya Harding and her connection to the men who physically assaulted her greatest rival, Nancy Kerrigan.

Behind the scenes, Robbie went after the project almost as it was available. “The script by Steven Rogers hadn’t hit the Black List when it was sent to me,” the actress told Deadline. “It was available and we read it pretty quickly.” In the end, the movie was essentially the movie that launched Robbie’s very own production company, LuckyChap.

5 Worst: Mary Queen Of Scots, 63%

This period film focuses on the events that unfolded when Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan), Queen of France, decided to return to Scotland after being widowed at the age of 18. In doing so, she somehow became rivals with Queen Elizabeth I (Robbie).

For Robbie, playing Queen Elizabeth took a lot more convincing than usual. She was hesitant about taking on the role as she thought of the other actresses who had portrayed her in the past. “I’m not going to lie, I was terrified,” the actress told Entertainment Weekly. “And I initially passed on the role.”

4 Worst: Peter Rabbit, 63%

In this live-action animated movie, Robbie voices the character of Flopsy Rabbit, who is one of Peter Rabbit’s sisters. And as it turns out, the actress shares a number of similarities with Flopsy so that she could easily relate to her:

“I’m also one of four, she has a bit of middle child syndrome,” Robbie revealed while speaking with The Au Review.com. “I’m also one of the middle children in our family.” She also added that the film’s story “weirdly mirrored my life and dynamically weirdly mirrored my own upbringing.”

3 Worst: The Legend Of Tarzan, 35%

In this 2016 movie, Tarzan is already happily settled with Robbie’s Jane Porter. However, his world is turned upside down when Jane gets kidnapped in an attempt to lure Tarzan in before handing him over to an old enemy. While speaking with Sarah Scoop, Robbie revealed that there very much was a conscious effort on her part and director David to make Jane appeal to a “contemporary audience.”

The actress also explained, “We spoke a lot about making her very independent and very capable.” Unfortunately, Robbie’s take on the role wasn’t enough for critics to enjoy the movie.

2 Worst: Suicide Squad, 27%

As far as movies go, Robbie seems to have good instincts when it comes to choosing the right roles. Unfortunately, not all these movies do well in the end.

And in the case of the DC Extended Universe’s Suicide Squad, a movie that centers on the world of supervillains, her (and the rest of the cast’s) performance is just not enough to impress critics. This is despite the fact that Robbie was joined by the likes of Jared Leto, Viola Davis, and Will Smith.

1 Worst: Terminal, 21%

In this 2018 thriller, Robbie plays Annie, a waitress who turns out to have a deadly alter ego. Just like I, Tonya, Robbie also came on board as a producer for Terminal since she and Vaughn Stein, the movie’s writer and director, happen to be good friends.

Stein also told The Movable Fest, “It was the very first character that I conceived in the story and she just took it and made it her own.” For her role, Robbie thought she would adopt an accent, and for that, she turned to singer Rita Ora for inspiration.