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.
Few film franchises get better as they progress, but Cruise's sixth Mission: Impossible film is the best in the entire series. The 2018 release is (like 2015's Rogue Nation) both directed and scripted by Christopher McQuarrie and features some of the best action sequences ever recorded on film, helping propel Fallout to become the highest-grossing film of Cruise's career (at least until the release of Top Gun: Maverick a few years later).
“He’s only Tom Cruise because nobody else is willing to be — or maybe he’s only Tom Cruise so that nobody else has to be. Either way, Fallout is the film he’s always promised us, and it was totally worth the wait.” —David Ehrlich, IndieWire