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.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including a Best Actor nomination for Cruise, Born on the Fourth of July is Oliver Stone's drama based on the best-selling autobiography by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Kovic reportedly gave Cruise his Bronze Star to thank him for his portrayal.
“It is a film of enormous visceral power with, in the central role, a performance by Tom Cruise that defines everything that is best about the movie.” —Vincent Canby, The New York Times