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.
This sci-fi psychological thriller stars Cruise as a self-indulgent man who is disfigured in a car accident and loses the woman of his dreams. Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz costar in the Cameron Crowe film. The opening features an iconic shot of Cruise running through an empty Times Square.
“Its tone is unquenchably pretentious, and its scale is overblown.” —Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal