Every Tom Cruise Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best
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.
German army officers plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in this historical thriller. Cruise reportedly was attracted to the role of Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg because of his resemblance to the real-life officer. Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson costar.
“It's slickly executed, handsomely acted for the most part and utterly easy to forget.” —Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer