The Good, The Bad & 'Gravity': Sandra Bullock's Movies Ranked

Sandra Bullock has had a varied and extended career filled with several highs. Most recently, she took 2013 by storm with her powerful, Oscar-nominated performance in Gravity. However, her career has also been litered with several lows, including her Razzie-winning role in All About Steve and those needless sequels to Miss Congeniality and Speed. Here at VH1, we took it upon ourselves to go back and re-watch, review and rank her 30+ films. That's right everything from Forces of Nature to Two Weeks Notice finds its place among Bullock's best films listed from worst to best.

31. Speed 2: Cruise Control

It's like Speed but on a boat and minus Keanu Reeves. Here's the thing: no one really asked for it. The idea may have sounded great but honestly, it was, like, maybe don't.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 3%

Box Office: $164 million

30. All About Steve

Released in the same year as The Blinde Side and The Proposal, AAS was the universally-panned dark spot in Bullock's big year. The film was a disastrous Rom-com about a ditzy blonde who had fallen head over heels for Bradley Cooper. Luckily no careers were hurt in the making of this film.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 7%

Box Office: $40 million

29. Premonition

This was Sandra's "Julianne Moore mistaken thriller" phase. Like The Forgotten, Blindness, and Freedomland, Sandra thought she could tackle something outside her usual genre. The film was a mess of flashbacks and a wasted Julian McMahon.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 8%

Box Office: $47 million

28. In Love and War

This 1996 film came after the high of While You Were Sleeping when Sandra chose to branch out into more dramatic films (A Time to Kill, Two If By Sea) with varying success. Unfortunately, this "boring and artificial" film was not one of the highlights of that year and was the beginning of the end of Chris O'Donnell's career.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 11%

Box Office: $25 million

27. Gun Shy

This wisely overlooked film wanted to be Kiss Kiss Bang Bang but wasn't. Thankfully, five years later Robert Downey, Jr. and Val Kilmer made it happen.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 24%

Box Office: $3 million

26. The Lake House

This was the Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock reunion that no one wanted to see and became memorable more for the Family Guy joke than anything else.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 35%

Box Office: $52 million

25. Two If by Sea

The film was another dark spot that followed the success of While You Were Sleeping, mainly because of that accent. While the Rom-Com failed to deliver, it wasn't The Lake House.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 11%

Box Office: $10 million

24. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Here comes another failed sequel that did nothing but tarnish what we loved about the first. And that title, Armed and Fabulous, is just a cry of gay desperation.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 15%

Box Office: $48 million

23. Loverboy

Real life couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick produced this wildly bizarre ensemble film about mother obsessed with her child. Sandra thankfully gets lost in the mix.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 17%

Box Office: $53 million

22. Love Potion No. 9

One of Sandra's earliest roles was not as bad as it could have been. But we've should have known this film outlined Sandra's "ugly girl routine" that would later be used in The Heat, Miss Congeniality and others.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 27%

Box Office: $754 thousand

21. 28 Days

28 Days came at the tail end of boring period for Sandra. Just before Miss Congeniality, Sandra appeared on by-the-number Rom-Coms that felt uninspired even if they attracted viewers.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 31%

Box Office: $62 million

20. Practical Magic

She was in Batman Forever, the other one was in Speed; together they failed to create 'magic' in this silly film about unintentionally murderous witches who just want to be loved.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 20%

Box Office: $68 million

19. Hope Floats

This move was saved by Mae Whitman.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 24%

Box Office: $81 million

18. Forces of Nature

This screwball comedy played on the success of Ben Affleck's rising star by pairing him with Sandra's down-the-middle status.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 46%

Box Office: $93 million

17. Two Weeks Notice

If anything, this was a typical Hugh Grant film that found Sandra just playing the part of the love interest. Nothing threatening, just nothing too spectacular. Hello hangover Sundays on TBS!

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 42%

Box Office: $93 million

16. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Sandra Bullock lead this ensemble comedy about a dysfunctional family of women. It played on the same good feelings as Fried Green Tomatoes, Now & Then and even The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 44%

Box Office: $69 million

15. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Following The Blind Side, Sandra had to prove her Best Actress win with more Oscar-bait (especially considering that Razzie). So she opted for this 9/11 movie that mostly felt like a ploy to tug at the audience's heartstrings. However, it still ended up getting nominated for Best Film.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 47%

Box Office: $31 million

14. The Net

This cyber thriller hit all the right notes of a Michael Crichton thriller without actually being based on a Crichton book. Sandra is a Pelican Brief Julia Roberts-type of systems analyst who gets caught up in a cyber war after the Undersecretary of Defense commits suicide. Sure, why not?

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 36%

Box Office: $110 million

13. Murder by Numbers

The psychological thriller put Sandra against-type as a harden cop whose job is to think like the murderers. Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt have fun overacting in early roles while Sandra keeps things dry and snort-less. It may have played better as a Lifetime film but it's one that fun to re-watch.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 31%

Box Office: $31 million

12. Crash

The Oscar-winning film was bloated, heavy-handed and too idealistic in its attempt to connect a bunch of wandering LA-type characters that yearn to feel a connection. However, Sandra shines as a hardened housewife - an unexpectedly small but delicious role for the actress. It may have been enough to convince producers that she could handle The Blind Side.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%

Box Office: $55 million

11. Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

In one of Sandra's earliest roles, she played opposite of Robert Duvall and Shirley MacLaine. Not bad for a newbie.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: $60

Box Office: $278 thousand

10. The Heat

The Heat played on the success of Bridesmaids, putting Sandra and Melissa McCarthy front and center of this buddy cop, R-rated comedy. However, it would have felt more fresh if wasn't for the familiarity of Sandra's "tough woman who doesn't know how to be feminine act," which she perfected in Miss Congeniality. But then again the fans who dropped $169 million at the box office might disagree.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 66%

Box Office: $229 million

9. Demolition Man

One of Sandra's earliest films was her best, mainly because she got to play a happy-go-lucky police officer caught up in a battle between Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone. The film was clunky, explosive fun that screams '90s action flick.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 64%

Box Office: $159 million

8. The Blind Side

The film earned Sandra her first Oscar nomination and win (over Meryl Streep) and it was well-deserved. Sandra played a tough housewife with a sensitive interior in this true story of footballer Michael Oher. The film as a whole doesn't quite stand up, but really it's all about Sandra's performance.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 66%

Box Office: $255 million

7. Miss Congeniality

The film has become one of Sandra's more iconic roles. After a few years of playing in straight in mediocre Rom-Coms, Sandra burst back onto the see with a funny albiet silly comedy about a cop who has to go undercover as a pageant queen. Of course, Michael Caine, William Shatner and Candice Bergen did an excellent job of filling out the cast.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 42%

Box Office: $105 million

6. The Proposal

Someone wisely took Two Weeks Notice and flipped the roles, casting Sandra as the boss and Ryan Reynolds as her hapless employee. The movie excels thanks to the chemistry between the two leads. Also, Betty White. And Ryan's naked butt.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 43%

Box Office: $163 million

5. Infamous

The other Truman Capote film failed to capture audiences like Phillip Seymour Hoffman's version. However critics debate whether or not this one was superior. Meanwhile, Sandra plays it straight as friend and author Harper Lee. It's just a shame it wasn't seen by more people. Bonus: It's one of Gwyneth Paltrow's most likable characters.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 73%

Box Office: $1 million

4. A Time to Kill

The adaptation of John Grisham's novel was named on VH1's 20 Most Essential Matthew McConaughey Films and for good reason. The courtroom thriller boasts a strong cast all bringing their  A-games in a battle over justice, race and pride.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 67%

Box Office: $152 million

3. Speed

Never has riding a bus (or an elevator) been more thrilling. The film played Keanu and Sandra against a maniacal Dennis Hopper, who put a bomb on a bus. The surprise hit took fans over gaps in the highway, through subways and around runways for 116 minutes of fun. It's a shame about that sequel.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%

Box Office:

2. While You Were Sleeping

A debate among the staff broke out about this one. It's clearly a fan favorite but better than Speed? Yes, we put it there. If it wasn't for the extremely thrilling and impressive Gravity, this would have taken the top spot. Sandra has always shined in a Rom-Com and luckily this one was a smart, uniquely charming film about "love at second sight."

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80%

Box Office: $182 million

1. Gravity

Gravity may seem like the obvious choice, considering the press and accolades both Sandra and the film has received, but it really does deserve the top spot. Sandra was the most unexpected choice for the role but after seeing her in it, it's hard to imagine that Angelina Jolie, Blake Lively and Natalie Portman were even considered. She shines in a one-woman show about a race to get back to Earth before the lack of supplies and oxygen prevent doing so. It's a spectacle that deserves to be applauded as well as for Sandra finally stepping out of her shell.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97%

Box Office: $264