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.
In 1999, Murphy teamed with Steve Martin for a pretty great Hollywood satire (written by Martin and directed by Frank Oz) about a failing movie producer who attempts to trick major action-movie star Kit Ramsey (Murphy) into toplining his next movie—for which he has a budget of just over $2,000—without Ramsey being aware that he is being filmed. Amusingly, Murphy plays not just Ramsey—a devotee of MindHead, a stand-in for Scientology—but also a Ramsey lookalike who is drafted into the production.
Trivia you definitely don't need to know: When we began work on Metacritic in 1999, Bowfinger was the first movie for which we compiled reviews.
“Priceless enough to flush 'Metro,' 'Dr. Dolittle' and 'Holy Man' from memory.” —Wesley Morris, San Francisco Examiner
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