Every Tom Cruise Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best
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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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
A football star lands a scholarship to escape his small town in this sports drama starring Craig T. Nelson and Lea Thompson. Cruise and Thompson were reportedly embedded in high schools to prepare for their roles, but Cruise was immediately recognized.
“A well-made but sugar-coated working-class fable about a football star.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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