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.
Released in 2011, this Brett Ratner-directed caper was Murphy's first adult-targeted film in four years. Heist follows a plot by a group of employees of a luxury Manhattan apartment tower to rob one of its residents—a Wall Street titan who is there under house arrest after defrauding his clients. Despite a strong cast that also includes Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, and Téa Leoni, critics were only mildly amused, and Heist is perhaps memorable only for triggering a revolt by theater operators who were upset at Universal's original plan to release the film on VOD a mere three weeks after opening day.
“The best thing about this mildly diverting but instantly forgettable comedy is that it seems to have awakened something in Murphy that had laid dormant for much of the past two decades.” —Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald
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