Tom Cruise's 8 Most Underrated Movies. Yes, Even That One. Fight Me.

Tom Cruise sprints in every movie. You walked right past these. Strong movie.guru scores, way fewer viewers, zero excuses left.

Number one is a 9.1 that half of you dismissed on its title alone.

1. 8
   American Made (2017)6.8

   Cruise grinning through a smuggling scheme is criminally overlooked.

   Fewest IMDb votes on this list at 238,335, yet 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and $134.9M worldwide on a reported $50M budget. People act like it never happened.
2. 7
   Interview with the Vampire (1994)6.8

   Cruise as Lestat is better than critics ever admitted.

   Critics beat just 52% of movies here. Audiences beat 74%. The crowd was right, and it still pulled $223.7M worldwide. Yes, it gets theatrical. That's the point.
3. 6
   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)6.5

   Opening night crowds hated it. Opening night crowds were wrong.

   Stanley Kubrick got a D minus CinemaScore while critics landed at 77% on Rotten Tomatoes. It drags in spots, sure. It's still stranger and smarter than that grade.
4. 5
   Magnolia (1999)7.3

   Cruise's best acting is hiding in a Paul Thomas Anderson ensemble.

   IMDb users rate it 8.0, the highest on this list. It made just $22.5M domestic and got a C minus CinemaScore. Messy, sprawling, and worth every minute of the mess.
5. 4
   Collateral (2004)7.3

   Even the movie.guru score sells this one short.

   The movie.guru score is 7.3. The Guru's Take is 8.3. Michael Mann, Cruise and Jamie Foxx in one cab deserves that extra point, and nobody brings it up.
6. 3
   A Few Good Men (1992)8.3

   Critics shrugged. Audiences were right, and loudly.

   Metacritic gave it a 62. Audiences gave it an A+ CinemaScore, the only one on this list, beating 95% of movies. The critics owe Rob Reiner a polite note.
7. 2
   Jerry Maguire (1996)8.1

   It's a great movie, not just a pile of catchphrases.

   An 8.1 movie.guru score and a CinemaScore A, but only 317,671 IMDb votes. Everyone quotes Cameron Crowe's film. Way fewer people actually rewatch it.
8. 1
   Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)9.1

   It ties Fallout, and people still treat it like a trailer.

   A 9.1 movie.guru score, same as Fallout, with 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yet 91,844 fewer IMDb votes. "Part One" in the title is not a flaw, everybody.

$1,283 says you defend Dead Reckoning Part One in the comments and then quietly rewatch it this weekend.

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