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.
After three straight commercial duds, Murphy at least found another moneymaker in the form of this PG-rated 2003 comedy about a pair of fathers (including Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin) who start a daycare out of their home after losing their corporate jobs. Directed (like Murphy's Dr. Dolittle 2) by Steve Carr (and like the latter, a modest hit), the film was followed by a pair of Murphy-less sequels. But Day Care didn't end the star's streak of poorly reviewed films.
“You know something is wrong when a preschooler's unwitting ad-libs are funnier than anything seasoned comedy writers can come up with. Kids say the darnedest things. Too bad the grown-ups don't.” —Claudia Puig, USA Today
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