Good Will Hunting is the essential Matt Damon–Ben Affleck collaboration: it launched them as a creative team as well as co-stars. This ranking weighs each film’s overall quality, how substantial and complementary their performances are, and the role the collaboration plays in their shared history. It is an editorial ranking, not an official consensus; the films also give the two very different amounts of screen time.
How the ranking works
A film earns a higher place when it succeeds on its own, gives both actors meaningful and complementary work, and matters to their history together. Writing and directing contributions count too. That means a smaller appearance can make the list when the film is rewarding, but it should not be mistaken for an equal co-lead role.
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The seven best Matt Damon and Ben Affleck movies together
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Good Will Hunting
The defining collaboration is also the strongest film on this list. Damon and Affleck both star and co-wrote the screenplay, making the story of a gifted young man and his South Boston friends inseparable from the creative partnership behind it. Their performances complement one another: Damon carries Will’s guarded intelligence and emotional struggle, while Affleck gives Chuckie the warmth and blunt loyalty of a friend who understands what Will needs to hear.
The screenplay won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film remains the clearest starting point for understanding why the pair’s collaborations matter: they are not just actors who share a screen, but friends whose creative history began with a story they made together.
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The Last Duel
This is their most substantial later dramatic collaboration among the films ranked here. Damon and Affleck are both credited as stars, and they co-wrote the screenplay with Nicole Holofcener; Ridley Scott directed. The historical drama gives their reunion a different scale and register from their early work, with both taking on serious parts in a story about power, reputation and competing accounts of events.
Its place near the top reflects the combination of substantial performances and renewed shared authorship. For the film’s official studio information, see 20th Century Studios’ The Last Duel page.
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Air
Air offers a lively contrast to the medieval gravity of The Last Duel. Damon leads as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro, while Affleck directs and also appears as company co-founder Phil Knight. Their contributions are different in scale and kind: Damon anchors the story on screen, and Affleck shapes the film from behind the camera while playing a distinctive supporting role.
The result is a smart sports-business drama about Nike’s pursuit of Michael Jordan, rather than a conventional sports film. Its place here comes from the way their collaboration has evolved: Damon in front of the camera, Affleck directing, and both helping tell a story about ambition and risk.
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Dogma
Kevin Smith’s religious satire lets Damon and Affleck play off each other as fallen angels Bartleby and Loki. Their contrasting comic energy is the attraction: Damon’s controlled, sardonic presence and Affleck’s more volatile edge make the pair an entertaining center for an irreverent ensemble comedy.
Dogma is a key example of the range of their shared screen work, even though it is not a writing partnership in the way Good Will Hunting is. Its comedy, ensemble format and supernatural premise make it a very different kind of collaboration from the dramas above it.
Rank #4
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School Ties
An early-career pairing, School Ties is worth seeking out as a glimpse of Damon and Affleck before their shared breakthrough. Its value on this list is partly historical: it shows them appearing in the same film before they became known as co-writers and close collaborators.
Their presence does not carry the same shared authorship or central partnership as the higher-ranked films, so this is best approached as an early ensemble drama rather than a two-hander.
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Chasing Amy
Affleck is central to Kevin Smith’s romantic comedy, while Damon has a much smaller appearance. That imbalance matters: this is not a film built around equal screen time or a sustained Damon–Affleck dynamic. It makes the ranking because Chasing Amy is a strong Affleck-led entry in their shared filmography and gives fans a brief Damon appearance within Smith’s world.
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
This is the most openly meta pick. The comedy brings back familiar figures from Kevin Smith’s films, including Damon and Affleck in playful appearances that reward viewers who recognize the earlier roles. The pleasure is in the joke and the callbacks, not in a substantial dramatic collaboration.
It closes the list as a fan-oriented comedy: a fun reunion for viewers who know the pair’s screen history, but a smaller contribution than the films ranked above it.
Where The Rip fits
A Tom’s Guide ranking published in January 2026 reported that Damon and Affleck reunited in The Rip, released January 16, 2026. That makes it a current candidate for this list, but the available information here does not establish official release credits or the size and nature of each actor’s role. It is therefore not ranked against the seven films above.
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