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.
Released in 2023, this seventh film in the franchise is the third straight to be directed by Christopher McQuarrie, with all three receiving terrific reviews from critics. Set to be followed by a concluding film in 2024, Dead Reckoning Part One received plenty of advance buzz for Cruise's ever-daring stuntwork including a fight scene on the roof of a moving train and an instantly legendary motorcycle sequece that finds him riding a bike off of a mountain cliff and deploying a parachute to fall to safety.
“The fact that McQuarrie and Cruise routinely set and then raise the bar for the gold standard of action movies is the lure of the franchise — but it's the characters, their foibles, their wit, and their deep humanity that are Mission: Impossible's secret weapon.” —Maureen Lee Lenker