Every Eddie Murphy Movie, Ranked
Updated January 2023 to add You People.
After a successful stand-up career in the 1970s and a wildly acclaimed run on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s, Eddie Murphy launched his film career (while still on SNL) in 1982 and has been appearing on the big screen fairly steadily in the decades since, starring in over 40 titles. To date, Murphy's films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide, but only occasionally has the material on screen matched Murphy's comedic talents—and, even when it has, reviews have sometimes been less positive than you might expect. In the gallery above, we rank all of his films to date (including his newest, Coming 2 America) from worst to best by Metascore, which reflects the consensus of professional critics for each film.
Appearing in the middle of an otherwise uncharacteristically quiet six-year span that saw no other Eddie Murphy movies released, this 2016 trifle from director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) is a rarity in the Murphy canon: It's a purely dramatic role in which the star plays the titular character, who serves as cook and caretaker to three generations of women. It was a money-loser despite its small budget, grossing under $700,000 in theaters.
“Murphy is fine as the title character, although his performance consists mostly of suppressing all of his usual shtick. He certainly doesn’t endow Mr. Church with any unexpected depths. But then neither does the script.” —Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
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