Henry Cavill's 8 Best Movies, Ranked

Ranked by movie.guru score, not by how good he looks in a cape. Three Guy Ritchie movies, two Justice Leagues, one very humbling number one.

His best movie technically stars somebody else. Scroll down and start typing.

1. 8
   Justice League (2017)4.2

   A reported $300M budget and it plays like a rough draft.

   39% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 4.2 movie.guru score. Cavill gets top billing energy in a movie that feels assembled in a parking lot. Guru's Take: 3.6.
2. 7
   In the Grey (2026)4.7

   Guy Ritchie plus Gyllenhaal should never gross $5.7 million.

   Reported $70M budget, $5.7M domestic. A 53 on Metacritic and a B CinemaScore. Nobody hated it. Nobody showed up either. That's worse.
3. 6
   The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)5.7

   The most stylish Cavill movie, and the score undersells it.

   Only a 5.7 on movie.guru, but IMDb sits at 7.2 and the Guru's Take is 6.6. It made $45.4M domestic. Those sixties suits deserved a sequel.
4. 5
   Man of Steel (2013)6.2

   Crowds loved it. The Guru's Take is not convinced.

   A− CinemaScore, $670M worldwide, 879,613 IMDb votes. Critics gave it 56% on Rotten Tomatoes and the Guru's Take is 5.1. Huge punches, not much warmth.
5. 4
   The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)6.5

   Cavill having the most fun he's ever had on camera.

   A− CinemaScore and audiences rated it above 73% of movies. Then it made $20.5M domestic on a reported $60M budget. Everybody loved it from the couch, apparently.
6. 3
   Enola Holmes (2020)6.7

   Critics' second favorite here, and he's not even the lead.

   91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Millie Bobby Brown carries the whole thing, Cavill plays the big brother, and he still walks off with scenes. Guru's Take: 6.4.
7. 2
   Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)7.9

   Same story, redone, and the score nearly doubled.

   7.9 movie.guru score versus 4.2 for the 2017 cut. Audiences beat 96% of movies. Critics stayed lukewarm at 54 on Metacritic, and the Guru's Take is a calmer 6.4.
8. 1
   Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)9.1

   His best movie belongs to Tom Cruise. Deal with it.

   9.1 movie.guru score, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, $824M worldwide. Cavill is billed second in somebody else's franchise, and it's still the best thing on his resume.

$638.27 says the first comment is someone insisting Man of Steel belongs at number one.

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