Top 5 Tom Cruise Movies

Decades of Tom Cruise to pick from, and we only matched on one film in the same spot.

Jeff's picks

1
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Philip Seymour Hoffman's chilling opening scene, Cruise tied to a chair, sold him all over again.
2
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Modern effects and sound mixing push it past the original for him, without taking anything away from Top Gun.
3
A Few Good Men (1992)
A classic, even if Jack Nicholson might be the real star of it. Aaron Sorkin's dialogue carries it.
4
Far and Away (1992)
The land-rush scenes still stand out. Jeff made Lisa watch it before they got married and still quotes "tell me you like my hat."
5
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
A fun, rewatchable action flick, basically live, die, repeat. Maybe his truest genre.

Matt's picks

1
A Few Good Men (1992)
Cruise going toe-to-toe with Jack Nicholson, in writing he calls spot-on in every scene.
2
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
The action version of Groundhog Day, minus the mid-movie drag. Emily Blunt is terrific and it's endlessly rewatchable.
3
Top Gun (1986)
The original, not Maverick. Iconic lines, Goose, Val Kilmer's Iceman. Still holds up on a rewatch with his kids.
4
Far and Away (1992)
A sweeping Ron Howard epic with Nicole Kidman, from Irish tenant farming to the Oklahoma land rush. The accent complaints never bothered him.
5
Mission: Impossible (1996)
The original, not the sequels. The exploding gum, the vault-ceiling descent, iconic scenes end to end.

Three films turned up on both lists, but only one landed in the same spot on both: Far and Away, at number four for each of us. Our number ones couldn't be more different, Matt's a courtroom drama, Jeff's an action sequel.