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.
Eddie Murphy's first big-screen opportunity came as one of the leads in Walter Hill's 1982 film—one of cinema's first buddy-cop movies—where he starred as a convict opposite Nick Nolte's police inspector in a role originally envisioned for Richard Pryor. The well-reviewed film earned Murphy a Golden Globe nomination and was followed by a lesser sequel eight years later.
“A quick and clever thriller as nasty as a piece of shrapnel snapping the sound barrier, 48 Hrs. is as violent as it is funny. It is very funny.” —Jay Scott, The Globe and Mail
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