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All Josh Brolin Movies Ranked
Josh Brolin: Goonie for life, though the whole killing-half-the-life-in-the-universe thing might put his membership in jeopardy. Having a role in The Goonies nets you cool points forever, but it took a while for Brolin to fully match his acting talent with the appropriate movies. 1998-2006, for example, didn’t net him a single Fresh movie, as he appeared in disparate films like The Mod Squad, Hollow Man, and Melinda and Melinda.
But nobody had a better 2007 than Brolin, as he appeared in three Certified Fresh projects: Grindhouse (the Planet Terror portion), American Gangster, and No Country for Old Men, the latter of which would go on to win Best Picture.
Brolin debuted in the MCU in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy as Thanos, though the character was depicted first by another actor in The Avengers. Thanos has been hanging over these movies like a purple Sword of Damocles, with the character requiring an actor of immense physical presence yet capable of emanating a kind of, yes, sensitivity and inner life to make this Mad Titan believable and near-relatable. As we’ve seen in Infinity War and Endgame, Marvel bet on the right actor. He portrayed hot planet tactican Gurney Halleck in Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune, and he’s one of the lucky few to survive into Part Two, which has just entered production. Until we’re back to sniffin’ the spice and riding the sandworm electric, we’re ranking Josh Brolin’s movies by Tomatometer! —Alex Vo
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