Kelly Lawler
USA TODAY
Published 7:00 AM EDT Sep 22, 2018
Emma Stone is coming to a TV screen near you.
The Oscar-winning actress is reuniting with her “Superbad” co-star Jonah Hill for Netflix’s “Maniac,” a surreal, wild miniseries about two damaged young adults who meet in a pharmaceutical drug trial.
In honor of the series debut on the streaming service, we went back through Stone’s career and picked the five best movies she’s starred in that are available to stream. Spoiler alert: “Aloha” is not on the list.
If you want to see her first collaboration with Jonah Hill: ‘Superbad’
Want to feel old? Take a look at a picture of Stone and Hill from 2007’s “Superbad” and then take a look at them in “Maniac.” A lot has changed since the raunchy high school comedy debuted eleven years ago, but it’s still a favorite. In the film, Stone plays Jules, the object of Seth’s (Hill) affection. A scene in which Seth accidentally smacks Jules on the head is among the movie’s funniest.
Stream on Amazon Prime.
If you want to see why she became a star: ‘Easy A’
Stone was a scene stealer in “Superbad” and “The House Bunny,” but it wasn’t until she led this 2010 film that she truly became a movie star. A modern twist on “The Scarlet Letter,” the film is about a teen girl who pretends to have sex with a gay friend to help keep him in the closet and then is mistakenly branded a slut by the high school rumor mill. She then leans into her new persona, wearing revealing clothes with a red “A” sewn on them. It’s a tough concept for a movie that would have collapsed under a less-capable star.
Stream it on Starz.
If you like webslingers: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’
The two “Amazing Spider-Man” movies get a bit of a bad rap among comic book fans, many of whom prefer either the Tobey Maguire films from the early 2000s or Tom Holland’s current incarnation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But while they may not have been the best from a comic book perspective, the films did nail the chemistry quotient when it came to Stone and Andrew Garfield, who had such incredible spark as Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker that they also dated in real life.
Rent or buy it on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu or YouTube.
If you love Ryan Gosling and rom-coms: ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’
Stone and Gosling have collaborated on three films together: “Crazy,” “Gangster Squad” and “La La Land” (more on that below). When they first play a romantic pairing in “Crazy,” their chemistry is instant, and gives way to one of the film’s most iconic scenes, in which their characters recreate the famous lift from “Dirty Dancing.” You’d be crazy stupid not to love it.
Rent or buy it on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu or YouTube.
If you want to see her Oscar-winning performance: ‘La La Land’
“La La Land” may have famously lost the 2017 best picture race to “Moonlight” (after the announcers read the wrong winner), but Stone was indeed the correct winner in the best actress race. Stone enchanted as Mia, an aspiring actress who gets beaten down by the race to stardom in Hollywood. That she reunites with her “Crazy” co-star Gosling is just a bonus.
Stream it on Cinemax.
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