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.
The war drama, which received 11 Academy Award nominations, stars Hanks as a World War II Army captain who leads his men on a mission in Normandy to retrieve a paratrooper played by Matt Damon. Saving Private Ryan was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
“A magnificent piece of movie-making.” —Robert Horton, Film.com