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.
Some of the words used by critics to describe this 2012 comedy that found Murphy playing a literary agent who discovers that every word he speaks brings him closer to death: "soggy," "disingenuous," "predictable," "joyless," and "strenuously unfunny."
Murphy would go on a self-imposed, multi-year hiatus after the release of this movie, the result, as he recently told Marc Maron, of tiring of making "shitty movies" and receiving Razzie nominations (including an award for being the worst actor of the decade).
“Alas, even Murphy's largely wordless, physically adroit performance can't redeem this tortured exercise in high-concept spiritualist hokum.” —Justin Chang, Variety
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