Every Rob Reiner Movie, Ranked

"During his peak, he churned out intelligent studio smash hits like it was the easiest thing in the world; at his lowest, you wondered how in the world anyone thought it was smart to give this guy money to make a movie. Reiner could be called a journeyman director, except what kind of journeyman director could make a movie as confident as When Harry Met Sally, or as anarchic as This Is Spinal Tap, or one that juggles as many tones as The Princess Bride?"

"Like Ron Howard, Reiner came out of television, and there's a segment of the population that will know him forever as "Meathead." There's another segment that knows him as a bastion of liberal politics, which got him skewered on South Park a full generation ago. But for a stretch of nearly a decade, Reiner was part Frank Capra, part Billy Wilder. It all got away from him, but in recent years, he has shown a hankering to try different projects."

"The rare movie in which a review of it - Roger Ebert's infamous pan, which stated, simply, "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it." - has become more well-known than the film itself, and boy, is Reiner fortunate there. Nearly 25 years later, North is just as bad"

Rob Reiner transitioned from television into a film career that oscillated between major artistic and commercial highs and notable failures. He achieved enduring success with films such as This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, and The Princess Bride. Public perceptions of Reiner range from his television persona "Meathead" to an outspoken liberal political figure. A concentrated period of nearly a decade produced work likened to Frank Capra and Billy Wilder. Several later films underperformed critically and commercially, including North, while recent years show sporadic attempts to return to varied, risk-taking projects such as Spinal Tap II, his 21st theatrical film.

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