Angelina Jolie's best performance?

I would say my top five of hers would be the following, in some order:

Gia
George Wallace
The Bone Collector
A Mighty Heart
Changeling

IDK, good in Girl, Interrupted, Good Shepherd, and Changeling, solid in movie star stuff like Bone Collector and Lara Croft. Still a pretty thin filmography for her stature as a star.

Gia, Girl Interrupted, Changeling, Salt & Maleficent for me. Changeling is prolly my all time fav performance of her, if i had to choose.

Changeling

i think i get that and i really would have to rewatch Changeling to refresh my memory on the nuances of her performance, i just know and still remember that she was very believable as a desperate mother constantly on the edge and i recall especially one particular shot in one scene that had her calling all her acting chops and she did so well that she just broke my heart in that moment. that's powerful stuff that stayed with me ever since. it's probably not a coincidence that i count it as one of my favourite Eastwood directed films as well, at least at this point.

as for the others, i have watched Gia just last year for the first time, so that's the one that is freshest in my memory. while i was rather lukewarm to the film on the whole which looked like a terribly aged 90's hallmark production in washed out colours and clumsily looking, cheap set-design, Angelina is already knocking it out of the park in her first big engagement. her unconsumed talent is a diamond in the rough, so i'd pick Gia as probably my 2nd favourite performance of her career.

with her two most memorable charactor actor roles, in Girl, Interrupted & Maleficent, she turns in her most jarring, bigger-than-life, over-the-top, career-defining performances. i already know that these two will be the ones i will always think of first when i'm asked about Angelina Jolie films i know, bc these roles are among her most memorable.

Salt is my pick bc i just wanted to include a fast-paced badass dynamite performance from her action-thriller oeuvre, a genre which she is doing particularly great in imo. i love me some Angelina-kicks-asses-left-and-right-while-always-looking-super-hot-at-it action flick every once in a while and her work in Salt is the one that stands out to me.

ok, so i'm sorry, you didn't ask, and idk if you needed to hear all this, but here we are.  these are my 5 top performances from La Jolie. Changeling will get a retreat tho and i'm curious to see how it's gonna hold up on a second visit.