Tom Cruise’s Biggest Movie

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Tom Cruise’s Biggest Movie

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How do you measure a movie actor’s work? Is it box office success? If so, actors in comic book films would do well. Is it by awards? Meryl Streep would be at or near the top of that list. Or, is it fame? That would include actors like John Wayne, who was among the best-known people in America at one time.

Take Tom Cruise, who has been famous and done well, perhaps best of all financially in the Mission: Impossible series. Cruise has demonstrated he can act in such serious movies as “Rain Man” and “A Few Good Men.” He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and garnered seven Golden Globe nominations for best actor or supporting actor, winning three times, including a best actor honor for his role as Ron Kovic, a real-life disabled Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist.

To pick the best Tom Cruise movie, 24/7 Tempo created a ranking based on an index of Internet Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoes movie ratings. (The IMDb is an online movie database owned by Amazon. Rotten Tomatoes is an online movie and TV review aggregator.) Only films with 25,000 reviews or more on IMDb were considered for this analysis. Each movie’s domestic box office was obtained from The Numbers. (This online movie database is owned by consulting firm Nash Information Services.)
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Base on these criteria, Cruise’s best movie was “Mission: Impossible — Fallout,” which was released in 2018. It also starred Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg. Christopher McQuarrie directed the film, and its domestic box office figure was $220.16 million. This is the sixth installment in the spy film series, and the second that McQuarrie directed, following “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.” In “Fallout,” Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team must track down missing plutonium while being monitored by a CIA spy after a mission goes wrong.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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