Top 10 of the best films of… Margot Robbie

She stars in the highly anticipated film Barbie alongside Ryan Gosling, which will be released in France on Wednesday July 19. Margot Robbie marks our summer in this year 2023 and makes the event again after fifteen years of career. For the occasion, we offer you our Top 10 of his best films…

10 – The survivors (2015)

Margot Robbie is the asset of this post-apocalyptic film mixing thriller, science fiction. Critics praised the performance of the Australian actress, who took on the first leading role of her career. But it was not released at the cinema in France. She gave the reply to Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor, with whom her character was at the heart of a love triangle.

9 – Scandal (2019)

This feature film tells the dark backstage of the far-right American TV news channel Fox News, where many women including three journalists and hosts were the prey of Roger Ailes, the CEO of Fox News. Putting an end to the sexual harassment that reigns in the corridors is unfortunately not a simple task… Margot Robbie shares the poster here with Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman.

8 – babylon (2022)

Damien Chazelle’s epic black comedy, the film was a commercial failure but marked the minds and critics, accumulating numerous nominations in prestigious ceremonies. Margot Robbie finds Brad Pitt there, still in Los Angeles, but in the 1920s and in the skin of Nellie LaRoy and Jack Conrad. We then witness the chaotic transition between silent and sound cinema, causing the sudden fall of certain stars, the birth of other stars, all in an environment where decadence and excess reign.

7 – Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (2018)

In this historical drama, Margot Robbie embodies, unrecognizable, Queen Elizabeth 1st. His power is threatened by his enemy cousin Marie Stuart, the wife of the King of France who becomes a widow at 18 before returning to Scotland to claim her throne. Well received, the film was however strongly criticized by historians: according to them, the two queens probably never met, and would only have sent letters…

6 – French Suite (2015)

This Franco-Belgian-British romantic war drama is adapted from the book of the same name. Margot Robbie rubs shoulders with Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts and Lambert Wilson. In France, in the middle of the summer of 1940, Lucile Angellier lives under the orders of her mother-in-law and desperately awaits news of her husband, who has been taken prisoner of war. It was then that the German army landed in their village.

5 – It was time (2013)

After Bridget Jones And Love Actually, director and screenwriter Richard Curtis won over audiences once again by telling the story of 21-year-old Tim (Domhnall Gleeso). His father reveals to him that, like all the men in his family, he can time travel. So he tries to use this power to find love. He achieves this by meeting Mary (Rachel McAdams) but loses track of her due to a time travel whose consequences he had not suspected…

4 – The Suicide Squad (2021)

James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) hit hard again during his short stint in the DC Comics universe. The Suicide Squad showcases Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn perfectly, surrounded by Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman and Sylvester Stallone as we’ve never seen them before. Endowed with a unique and trashy tone, the film offers a delicious balance between irresistible humor and impressive action scenes. Huge box in streaming, he collected 90% of favorable opinions on the site Rotten Tomatoes.

3 – Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood (2019)

Directed by Quentin Tarantino, Margot Robbie appears for less than five minutes in this 2h40 film and has few lines… And yet, she is among the main cast and this role is one of the most emblematic of her career. ! In this film carried by Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, the Australian embodies actress Sharon Tate, the wife of Roman Polanski, who is unaware that she is targeted by the family of Charles Manson, who intends to go to her and kill everyone there…

2 – The wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Margot Robbie starred in another iconic work of the seventh art alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. This is of course the biopic of Jordan Belfort, ex-stockbroker and financial criminal! This black comedy is the highest-grossing film of Martin Scorsese’s career. The Australian actress plays the role of the wife of the uncontrollable businessman, with whom she gives birth to a little boy before demanding a divorce, tired of the excesses of Jordan Belfort, who cannot lives on shenanigans, sex and drugs.

1 – Me Tonya (2017)

This parody documentary biopic on figure skater Tonya Harding offers only her version of the facts of her rival Nancy Kerrigan’s assault as told by Tonya Harding, taking her testimony at face value. Producer and heroine of the film, Margot Robbie found her credibility in the eyes of the public and the profession thanks to this project for which she was nominated for the Oscars and the Golden Globes in the Best Actress category. Allison Janney, in the role of the cruel mother, left these two ceremonies with the award for Best Actress in a supporting role.

Hugo Mallais