![]() ![]() If you can watch this movie without rolling your eyes, you deserve a medal. The ideas in the film aren’t wrong, but they’re spun with such smugness and lack of interest in telling some semblance of a story that they come off as groan-worthy. It’s the equivalent of a political Facebook meme come to life-a pedantic, hollow “morality play” that goes nowhere and is so ineloquent with the handling of its subject matter that if you’re a self-professed liberal, it may have you questioning your political beliefs.Ĭruise is fine as a conservative senator trying to sell a new military endeavor in Afghanistan, and the role had promise as Cruise has rarely tackled something so blatantly political, but Redford mishandles the whole thing, with a script by Matthew Michael Carnahan that reads like liberal fan-fiction. Whether that was a consequence of Cruise’s perceived image issues or the film’s quality is unclear, but Lions for Lambs is the worst film on the actor’s resume. ![]() This 2007 Robert Redford drama came on the heels of Cruise’s PR issues, and at first glance was seen as a potential comeback for the actor, but in the end would mark Cruise’s final foray into straight drama territory. So, without further ado, I present to you every Tom Cruise movie ranked from worst to best. RELATED: To See or Not to See: ‘Minority Report’ on Surveillance and Data Collection Additionally, I didn’t include 1983’s Losin’ It due to lack of availability, and also left off 1981’s Endless Love given Cruise’s lack of substantial screentime. As such, the order I’ve laid out here has to do with the film as a whole, not just Cruise’s performance in it. It’s one thing to have the kind of longevity that Cruise has enjoyed, but the actor’s filmography is consistently solid-even most of the “bad” Tom Cruise films have some sort of redeeming quality.Ī couple of notes before we begin: this is a ranking of Tom Cruise films, not performances. While at first, this seemed like a simple enough task, as I dove deeper into the actor’s oeuvre, I came to realize that Cruise has made more genuinely good movies than not. It’s this focus on pleasing audiences that exemplifies Cruise’s status as “movie star,” but it’s the actor’s talent, ambition, and willingness to venture into uncertain territory that makes him our greatest living movie star.Īs such, it felt appropriate to dive back into Cruise’s entire filmography, take a closer look at his entire body of work from Taps to Top Gun: Maverick, and rank every single film from worst to best. ![]() This is the guy who literally hung off the tallest building in the world for our entertainment. Audiences can rest assured that when they see a Tom Cruise movie, the actor is leaving nothing on the table. And while PR troubles led to a sharp left turn into exclusively blockbuster-type material in the mid-2000s, Cruise remains a reliable source of entertainment. ![]()
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