Every Tom Cruise Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best
by
Julia Hays, for Metacritic
– June 6, 2017
Updated July 5, 2023 to add Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Daredevil actor Tom Cruise is willing to risk his life with real-life stunts and has starred in big budget blockbusters for three decades. He has played soldiers, secret agents and vampires.
Below, we rank all of Cruise's films, from worst to best, by Metascore.
Additional content by Jason Dietz.
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photo by Touchstone Home Entertainment
A film that earned Tom Cruise a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actor, Cocktail was largely panned by critics but was a financial success at the box office. Cruise stars as a New York City bartender who takes his impressive skills to a Jamaican bar and falls in love with an artist (Elisabeth Shue).
“Very, very stupid.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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