The last time Jennifer Lopez headlined a major theatrical release was 2010′s The Back-Up Plan. That’s like a century of downtime in Hollywood Years.

Leave it to Jason Statham and his permanent five-o’clock shadow to lure J.Lo back to the big screen in the new action thriller, Parker. To celebrate the former Fly Girl’s return to theaters, Celebuzz gets all retrospective-y by rounding up her six best film performances.

From Selena to Monster-in-Law, from dramas to (gasp) Gigli, Lopez has done it all. Her film career, which is quickly coming up on the 2o-year mark, boasts several box office hits and an impressive collection of truly impressive – if somewhat underrated – dramatic roles.

There is no genre Lopez hasn’t tackled, which made our rank and filing efforts that much harder. So which performances made the cut? Check out the gallery to find out.

Did we leave out your favorite J.Lo performance? Watch a clip from her new film, Parker, then tell us which movie we missed in the comments below.

A Bond girl. A hunter of man-sized sewer bugs. The lead in Boat Trip.

These are just some of the less-than-expected roles actors have taken on following their brush with Oscar.

This week, Jessica Chastain stars in Mama, a horror movie from a first-time director produced by genre luminary Guillermo del Toro. Although the pedigree of many of her collaborators is undeniable, it’s an unexpected choice for the Julliard-trained actress, especially after she received not just an Oscar nomination, but a Golden Globes win for her performance in the equally-acclaimed Zero Dark Thirty. And she follows in the footsteps of the actors and actresses above who took on some surprising — and unfortunately, unsuccessful challenges.

For some actors, their association with the Academy Award can become a curse that plagues their careers with very Movie Jail-worthy parts (cough, Halle Berry). Both winners and nominees of Hollywood’s most prestigious award seemingly become victim to its confounding downside, taking on truly baffling projects. (That said, a few of them managed to make a proper turnaround, but they were nevertheless stuck in the weeds careerwise for a few years at least.)

With Chastain chasing her Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated turn in Zero Dark Thirty with the ghost story Mama, Celebuzz looks back at 7 of some of Hollywood’s noteworthy talents and their most questionable post-Oscar choices.

The actors listed here reflect a range of both Oscar winners and nominees; once promising A-listers that are, despite their award-worthy talent, lucky now if they can be a clue on a crossword puzzle. (5 across is Mira Sorvino).

Have an actor or actress to add to our list? Watch the trailer for Mama, and then drop a name or three — and perhaps their most shameful role — in the comments below. 

Cloud Atlas isn’t the biggest box office disappointment ever, but it’s definitely its cousin.

This past weekend, the ambitious sci-fi epic finished number 3 at the box office, opening with $9.4 million. Budgeted at $100 million, Atlas is hard-pressed to make back its money.

Here’s a quick look at more big-budget films forever stuck in the red.

1. John Carter

Production Budget: $250 million

Domestic Gross: $73 million

You know your movie is a dud when its distributor can’t wait to tell the world how much money they’ve lost.

Less than two weeks after its release, Disney reported that they would take a $200 million loss on the Mars-set action epic. In doing so, the studio basically sentenced director Andrew Stanton and star Taylor Kitsch to Movie Jail.

2. Heaven’s Gate

Production Budget: $45 million

Domestic Gross: $4 million

Director Michael Cimino’s (The Deer Hunter) 1980 Western cost the equivalent of a gabillion dollars in today’s money, and forced distributor United Artists to go bankrupt. Which explains why the movie is still a sore subject, more than 30 years after its release.

3. Mars Needs Moms

Production Budget: $150 million

Domestic Gross: $6.9 million

Another costly bomb from Disney, this 2011 release forced The Mouse House to shut down the motion capture studio that made it.

Science is still trying to calculate the number of fu!@s audiences couldn’t give.

4. 1941

Production Budget: $32 million

Domestic Gross: $94.9 million

After scoring huge hits with Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1941 marked Steven Spielberg’s first major critical and box office disappointment.

The only good thing to come out of this 1979 WWII farce was that it forced the director to go “less is more” with his next project, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

5. Battleship

Production Budget: $209 million

Domestic Gross: $65 million

2012’s second big-budget flop headlined by Taylor Kitsch, director Peter Berg’s adaptation of the Hasbro board game proved to be a huge “miss” with audiences. In fact, that pun is arguably better than the entire film.

6. Ishtar

Production Budget: $55 million

Domestic Gross: $17 million

Like Heaven’s Gate before it, this 1987 comedy misfire is synonymous with “box office disaster.”

Starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as American lounge singers who travel to Morocco and stumble upon a Cold War plot, Ishtar is still used today as an example of how not to make a movie.

7. The Adventures of Pluto Nash

Production Budget: $100 million

Domestic Gross: $4.2 million

2002’s mess of a sci-fi comedy marked the first of many big-budget bombs starring Eddie Murphy.

The Beverly Hills Cop star once quipped that he knows “the two or three people who saw” Pluto Nash, which is actually one or two people more than those that saw his next big movie fail…

8. Meet Dave

Production Budget: $60 million

Domestic Gross: $11 million

This Summer 2008 flop proved that Eddie Murphy failed to learn a valuable lesson from Pluto Nash: If he’s in a sci-fi comedy, audiences will stay away.

9. Gigli

Production Budget: $54 million

Domestic Gross: $6 million

When speaking of this 2003 comedy, one uses the same nervous, hushed tones as they would when talking about Voldemort.

Fun fact: The Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez vehicle dropped 82% in its second week, setting a record at the time.

10. Speed Racer

Production Budget: $120 million

Domestic Gross: $44 million

Based on the popular cartoon series, this long-anticipated from directors Andy and Lana Wachowski looked like a hit on paper. Then it hit theatres and, well, this 2008 release will just have to settle for slowly becoming a fan favorite.

11. Cutthroat Island

Production Budget: $98 million

Domestic Gross: $10 million

Director Renny Harlin made a pirate movie starring then-wife Geena Davis and Matthew Modine, and managed to bankrupt its studio in the process.

Everything in the above sentence makes sense. Too bad the filmmakers didn’t know then what they certainly know now.

Are you on the fence about seeing Cloud Atlas? Watch our video review below to see if you and your wallet can help save it at the box office.