The list of Saturday Night Live cast members who have made us laugh is long -- but the number of SNL vets who have managed to make a successful go of it on the big screen, especially over the long term, is much smaller. With over a billion dollars in global box office receipts to his name -- a total that will expand when Land of the Lost stomps into theaters this weekend -- it's safe to say Will Ferrell is part of that exclusive group, and in honor of his achievements, we've decided to dedicate this week's Total Recall to his 10 best-reviewed movies.

With a film career stretching back over a decade -- and a propensity for taking cameo roles in everything from Boat Trip to The Wedding Crashers -- he's has popped up on our screens so often that it's a safe bet that some of your favorite Ferrell moments didn't make the list. But given his reputation for appearing in dim-bulb comedies, the amount of critical affection Ferrell has earned during his career may surprise you; in fact, nine of the 10 movies on our list have landed at 60 percent or better on the Tomatometer. Let's count them down, shall we? And when we're done here, don't forget to check out Ferrell's full filmography!

55%

Rotten

10. Step Brothers

By the time Step Brothers arrived in 2008, Ferrell had played enough self-awareness-deficient dolts that a growing chorus of moviegoers professed to no longer find him funny -- and critics seemed to agree, failing to issue a Fresh certification to this tale of two loutish fortysomethings (Ferrell and frequent co-star John C. Reilly) whose parents' marriage forces them to live in the same house. Still, given the number of times Ferrell had played seemingly brain-damaged men with propensities for shouting and public nudity, Step Brothers did a remarkable job of wringing fresh laughs out of what could have been overly familiar territory for its stars. It struck a chord with audiences, to the tune of a nearly $128 million worldwide gross -- and although they were outnumbered by critics who weren't entertained, an impressive number of writers responded to its humor, including Kyle Smith of the New York Post, who wrote, "I thought I knew funny, but I was mistaken. Before the blessed light of Step Brothers entered my life, I knew not the sweet comedic splendors of live burial, bunk-bed catastrophe or a minivan family singing 'Sweet Child O' Mine' in four-part harmony."

60%

Fresh

9. Old School

Critics have accused a good many recent comedies of glorifying adolescent behavior by grown men who should know better -- and Ferrell has starred in quite a few of them, including the film that exemplifies the subgenre perhaps better than any other: 2003's Todd Phillips-directed Old School. Though technically a supporting player here, Ferrell walks away with the movie as Frank "The Tank" Ricard, the well-meaning doofus whose new marriage can't keep him from backsliding into irresponsible antics like drinking inhuman quantities of alcohol and running naked through the streets -- just in time to be picked up by his horrified wife and a van full of her friends. Though critics generally agreed that Old School didn't live up to the promise of its setup, it amused enough scribes to earn a respectable 60 percent on the Tomatometer (Variety's Dennis Harvey called it "this year's kinder, gentler Animal House"), and in the years since its release, the movie -- and Frank "The Tank" -- have developed something of a cult following.

62%

Fresh

8. Zoolander

It's debatable whether American audiences have ever really been in the mood for an absurd parody of the male modeling industry, but they really weren't in the mood for one on September 28, 2001, when Ben Stiller's Zoolander -- featuring Will Ferrell as a white-haired fashion mogul, criminal mastermind, and closet keytar player named Jacobim Mugatu -- landed with a thud at the box office. Despite its underwhelming theatrical run and utterly ridiculous premise, Zoolander managed to earn some surprisingly positive reviews, both from critics who appreciated its timing (Rolling Stone's Peter Travers called it "an oasis of bracing comedy that comes at just the right time") and its goofy brand of satire (Dennis Lim of the Village Voice praised it as "a freakishly potent farce"). Like a number of Ferrell's films, Zoolander has enjoyed a second life on the home market, where lines like "listen to your friend Billy Zane, he's a cool dude" have reached their full comic potential.

65%

Fresh

7. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

The next time you're tempted to dismiss film critics as a bunch of stuffy, humorless types that are too caught up in things like "acting" and "plot" to see the value in spending a couple of hours laughing at unabashedly silly gags, consider that Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is the proud owner of a 64 percent Tomatometer rating -- and our Top Critics go even further, deeming the proudly brainless satire of 1970s news anchors 69 percent Fresh. Anchorman's style of humor definitely isn't for everyone -- to appreciate it, you've got to be on board for leisure-suited rumbles, non sequitir gags like "I love lamp," and a climax that hinges on a conversation between a dog and a bear -- but it gives you 94 minutes of the purest, most unhinged Will Ferrell comedy you're likely to find, and as an added bonus, it's the only film that contains the immortal phrase "I'm sorry, I think I ate your chocolate squirrel." As Tom Long of the Detroit News put it, "Ferrell has an absolutely magical way of making complete morons lovable."

69%

Fresh

6. Curious George

Any movie that comes with a tagline as corny as "Show Me the Monkey!" is deserving of skepticism, particularly if the film in question is an animated adaptation of an old series of children's books -- but 2006's Curious George proved a worthy big-screen extension of H.A. and Margaret Rey's beloved bestsellers, giving the furry little rascal a spiffy 21st-century makeover without losing any of the sweet charm that made the character an icon in the first place. As the voice of George's longtime foil The Man in the Yellow Hat (here named Ted Shackleford), Ferrell certainly wasn't the film's chief draw for its target demographic, but he did add a bit of marquee value to a cast that included Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, and Dick Van Dyke, helping George swing its way to a mildly surprising $69 million worldwide gross. The movie's gentle spirit and extensive use of traditional animation couldn't compete with the louder, flashier CGI fare prevalent at the box office, but they weren't meant to; as Colin Colvert of the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote, "the makers of Curious George have figured out how to make an innocent cartoon that will amuse knee-nuzzlers without hitting adults like a liter of chloroform."