The Best Cara Buono Movies, Ranked
21 credits from 1992 to 2025, ranked by the Movie Echo Score — a blend of critic reviews, audience ratings and lasting impact. Things Like This (2025) comes out on top with a score of 75. The biggest box office hit is Paper Towns (2015) with $85.5M worldwide. Below: the best films by genre and by decade, the most awarded and the newest releases.
Top Rated Cara Buono Movies
The 7 highest-rated films Cara Buono is credited on. Things Like This (2025) leads with 75, followed by Monsters and Men (2018) at 72. The Movie Echo Score blends critic reviews, audience ratings, cultural impact and how well a film holds up.
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#1 Movie Echo Score: Score 75 Things Like This 2025 · Comedy -
#2 Movie Echo Score: Score 72 Monsters and Men 2018 · Drama -
#3 Movie Echo Score: Score 67 All Saints 2017 · Drama -
#4 Movie Echo Score: Score 65 Queen of the Ring 2025 · Biography -
#5 Movie Echo Score: Score 60 The Bad Seed 2018 · Drama -
#6 Movie Echo Score: Score 59 The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story 2023 · Crime -
#7 Movie Echo Score: Score 47 She Came from the Woods 2022 · Horror
Biggest Cara Buono Box Office Hits
Cara Buono's films have made $114M worldwide in total. Paper Towns (2015) is the biggest hit at $85.5M, ahead of The Cowboy Way (1994) ($20.3M). Lifetime grosses, with each film's domestic share.
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Paper Towns 2015 · Adventure $85.5M $32M dom. - 2
The Cowboy Way 1994 · Western $20.3M $20.3M dom. - 3 All Saints 2017 · Drama $5.94M $5.8M dom.
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Waterland 1992 · Drama $1.1M $1.1M dom. - 5 Queen of the Ring 2025 · Biography $658K $658K dom.
- 6 Monsters and Men 2018 · Drama $511K $500K dom.
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Killer: A Journal of Murder 1995 · Drama $82K $82K dom. - 8
Two Ninas 1999 · Romance $14.7K $14.7K dom.
The Best Cara Buono Movie in Every Genre
The best-rated film in each genre Cara Buono has worked in, the genres with the most films first. Drama leads with 9 films, and Monsters and Men (2018) is the pick of them.
- Drama 9 films Monsters and Men 2018 · as Stacey Movie Echo Score: 72
- Comedy 2 films Things Like This 2025 · as Margie Kitlin Movie Echo Score: 75
- Crime 2 films The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story 2023 · as Debra Movie Echo Score: 59
- Biography 1 film Queen of the Ring 2025 · as Bertha Movie Echo Score: 65
- Horror 1 film She Came from the Woods 2022 · as Heather McCalister Movie Echo Score: 47
- Adventure 1 film Paper Towns 2015
- Romance 1 film Two Ninas 1999 · as Nina Cohen
- Western 1 film The Cowboy Way 1994 · as Teresa Salazar
The Best Cara Buono Movie of Each Decade
One pick per decade of Cara Buono's career, newest decade first: the best-rated film of each ten years, from 1990s to 2020s.
The Latest Cara Buono Movies
The most recent films Cara Buono is credited on, newest first — starting with Things Like This (2025). Open any of them for the cast, ratings, box office and where to watch.
- Things Like This 2025 · Margie Kitlin
- Queen of the Ring 2025 · Bertha
- The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story 2023 · Debra
- She Came from the Woods 2022 · Heather McCalister
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The Girl from Plainville 2022 · Gail Carter - Monsters and Men 2018 · Stacey
- The Bad Seed 2018 · Angela
- All Saints 2017 · Drama
- Paper Towns 2015 · Adventure
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A Good Marriage 2014 · Betty Pike -
Drew Peterson: Untouchable 2012 · Kathleen Savio -
Attention Shoppers 2000 · Claire Suavez
The Best Cara Buono Movies: Questions & Answers
The best-rated, highest-grossing, most awarded and newest Cara Buono films, answered from the rankings on this page.
What is the best Cara Buono movie?
Things Like This (2025) is the best-rated Cara Buono film, with a Movie Echo Score of 75, ahead of Monsters and Men (2018) (72) and All Saints (2017) (67). The Movie Echo Score blends critic reviews, audience ratings and how well a film has lasted.
Things Like This: cast, ratings & box office What is the highest-grossing Cara Buono movie?
Paper Towns (2015) made the most at the box office, with $85.5M worldwide, followed by The Cowboy Way (1994) with $20.3M. Together, Cara Buono's films with box office figures have made $114M.
What is the best Cara Buono drama movie?
Monsters and Men (2018) is the best-rated of Cara Buono's drama films, with a score of 72. In other genres: Things Like This (comedy), The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (crime) and Queen of the Ring (biography).
What is the newest Cara Buono movie?
The newest film on Cara Buono's filmography is Things Like This (2025), with Cara Buono as Margie Kitlin.
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