Has any child star of the last 40 years fared better than Kirsten Dunst?
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Magnolia Pictures, Showtime and Warner Bros. The movies that first won her acclaim segued perfectly into the teen vehicles that made Dunst one of the most beloved celebrities of her generation , which in turn provided a pathway to the varied modes she has embraced as an adult .
33. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People To borrow Jeff Bridges’s description of the magazine that Simon Pegg’s character once ran, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is witless. Dunst sleepwalks through this noxious comedy based on Toby Young’s 2001 memoir of the same name, playing a writer who takes a reluctant liking to Pegg’s infantile nitwit. Like the movie surrounding it, her role is an insult, neither interesting nor humorous.
29. Get Over It This pleasant but unexciting modernization of A Midsummer Night’s Dream got lost in the early 2000s’ teen-comedy craze. Get Over It manages to encapsulate the perky charms that established her star power, but it’s inferior to most other Dunst vehicles from that period. You can tell she isn’t as engaged with the material as she was with, say, Drop Dead Gorgeous or Bring It On, maybe because it’s trite by comparison.
25. The Cat’s Meow Two decades before Amanda Seyfried scored an Oscar nomination for playing Marion Davies in Mank, Dunst portrayed the Jazz Age actress in this Peter Bogdanovich romp about William Randolph Hearst’s infamous 1924 yacht party that resulted in the mysterious death of producer Thomas Ince. The Cat’s Meow speculates on what might have happened that night, including the resentment Hearst felt about Davies’s affair with Charlie Chaplin .
21. Wag the Dog Dunst’s role in Barry Levinson’s political satire is small, but she gets some of its biggest laughs. Playing an aspiring actress who unwittingly takes a gig in a propaganda video meant to help cover up a presidential sex scandal, hers is the movie’s only uncynical character. Wag the Dog supplied the bridge that vaulted Dunst from kiddie parts to teenagerdom. In it, you can see some of the comedic cheer she’d soon bring to Drop Dead Gorgeous and Bring It On.
17. Mona Lisa Smile I’ll bang this drum until I die: Mona Lisa Smile is underrated. Yes, it’s hokey and populated with characters who are little more than archetypes. But the Mike Newell–directed drama about an art-history teacher attempting to radicalize her Wellesley students in 1953 is effortlessly watchable and quite charming. More crucially, Smile gave Dunst a rare villainous role at the exact moment when it was time for her to graduate from playing sunny teenagers.
13. The Virgin Suicides “The Virgin Suicides was my first time being seen as a mature woman,” Dunst recently said. She was 16 when Sofia Coppola cast her, launching one of the past few decades’ most rapturous cinematic partnerships. Despite this being a movie in which a group of now-adult men reflect on the neighborhood girls who enchanted them as teenagers, center stage belongs to Dunst’s Lux Lisbon. Even when she’s silent, which is often, her performance is never vacant.
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind may belong to Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, but Dunst is its stealth heart. Her punch-drunk receptionist — in love with the founder of the memory-erasing operation that engines Michel Gondry’s modern classic — says the film’s title while reciting an Alexander Pope poem. More crucially, she exposes the downside of expunging one’s past in the name of heartbreak.
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