Top 10 Best Jennifer Lopez Movies

J.Lo plays Ramona, a veteran stripper who comes up with a plan after the 2008 financial crisis: drug Wall Street guys, bring them to the club and max out their credit cards. It's Ocean's Eleven with strippers. J.Lo was 50 when she made this film and steals every scene; that entrance to Fiona Apple's 'Criminal' is chef's kiss. She should have gotten an Oscar nomination. J.Lo at her very best: tough, funny, sexy and completely in control.

The role that changed everything. Selena Quintanilla was a Tejano superstar murdered at 23 by the president of her fan club. J.Lo won the role over thousands of other actresses, and she's phenomenal: the energy, the dance moves, the charisma. The singing is Selena's own voice, but otherwise? This is a star playing a star. Impossible not to cry.

Steven Soderbergh makes a sexy crime film in which George Clooney is a charming bank robber who kidnaps FBI agent J.Lo. They have chemistry, they flirt, there's tension. The scene where they're locked in a car trunk together is iconic, and J.Lo effortlessly holds her own next to Clooney in this Elmore Leonard adaptation.

Oliver Stone at his most unhinged: a noir thriller in a godforsaken Arizona town where everyone is crazy. Sean Penn plays a loser stranded with car trouble, Nick Nolte is the psychotic husband, and J.Lo is the femme fatale playing both men against each other. Totally over the top, but deliciously sleazy.

An epic about three generations of a Mexican American family in LA. J.Lo plays the young mother in the flashbacks in one of her first real roles. The film is long, emotional and honest about the immigrant experience, with a brilliant Edward James Olmos. This was J.Lo's real breakthrough as an actress.

A visually deranged thriller by director Tarsem Singh. J.Lo plays a therapist who uses experimental technology to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer to find his last victim. The plot is ridiculous, but the visuals are insane: it looks like a nightmare designed by a couturier.

A quiet film about grief and reconciliation. J.Lo plays a woman fleeing her abusive boyfriend who moves in with her father-in-law (Robert Redford), who hates her because he blames her for his son's death. Morgan Freeman is in it too. One of those films nobody saw but is actually pretty good.

The other ant movie of 1998, next to Pixar's A Bug's Life. Woody Allen voices a neurotic ant who falls in love with the princess (J.Lo). It's actually quite dark for a kids' film, with literally fascist ants. J.Lo's role is small, but she's in a film with Woody Allen, Gene Hackman and Sylvester Stallone as ants.

An animated film about an alien (voiced by Jim Parsons) who accidentally conquers Earth and befriends a girl. J.Lo voices the mother. Standard DreamWorks fare: colorful, busy and designed to keep kids quiet for two hours. It does what it needs to do.

This is pure fantasy, of course. A megastar spots a math teacher holding a 'Marry Me' sign in the audience and decides to marry him instead of her cheating fiancé. Absurd, predictable, yet a little charming. Owen Wilson does his thing, J.Lo sings, and with your brain on standby it's pretty entertaining.

As a brilliant data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence who must overcome her fear to save humanity, Lopez leads this Netflix science fiction film.