The Best Tom Hanks Movies of the Past 30 Years, Ranked
and Julia Hays, for Metacritic – October 27, 2016
Updated November 2019 to add A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
Tom Hanks’ star has burned brightly in Hollywood since the mid-1980s. From bowlegged toys to boozy baseball coaches, the Academy Award winner is the master at making flawed characters deeply lovable.
It may be difficult for you to pick your favorite Tom Hanks movie, but here's how our Metascores break it down.
Hanks plays Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated 2017 drama about that newspaper's publication of the so-called "Pentagon Papers" during the height of the Vietnam War in 1971. It marked the first time Hanks starred opposite Meryl Streep (who plays Post publisher Katharine Graham).
“Spielberg’s latest brings intelligence and electricity to its study of nimble strategic manoeuvring which is guided by urgent performances from Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks.” —Tim Grierson, Screen Daily