The 15 best Tom Cruise movies ranked, from 'Mission: Impossible' to 'Magnolia'

A definitive ranking of Tom Cruise’s 26 best action movies

After spending several months doing not much besides watching Tom Cruise movies, I now spend a lot of time wondering about Tom Cruise running. The Mission: Impossible star is a high-cadence runner. He’s famously short of stature, low to the ground and with short legs. But that build is perfect for cinema, because those arms swing and those legs churn and convey a viscerality, a violence, a constant labored activity that translates perfectly to t…

The 15 best Tom Cruise movies ranked, from 'Mission: Impossible' to 'Magnolia'

You had us at "Tom Cruise."Paramount Pictures; TriStar Pictures; Everett Collection; Dreamworks; Warner Bros./Getty Tom Cruise in (clockwise from bottom left): Risky Business, Magnolia, Jerry Maguire, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, and Collateral"There will never be another Tom Cruise."So declared Glen Powell, who the iconic star mentored on and off-screen for 2022's Top Gun: Maverick. Indeed, the conditions that produced Cruise — a globa…