Director and actor
Christopher McQuarrie averages 7.23, Tom Cruise averages 6.97. Apart that suggests 7.10; together they average 7.36, a lift of +0.26.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
2008
2012
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018Best
2022
2023
2025Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
| Jack Reacher '12 | Mission: Impossib… '15 | Mission: Impossib… '18 | Mission: Impossib… '23 | Mission: Impossib… '25 | |
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| Tom Cruise | |||||
| Simon Pegg | |||||
| Ving Rhames | |||||
| Rebecca Ferguson | |||||
| Hayley Atwell | |||||
| Sean Harris |
Each column is a film in release order. Filled squares mark who was in it, colored by the film's rating.
 Valkyrie | 2008 | 7.1 | 278K | Writer, Producer | as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (not counted) |
 Jack Reacher | 2012 | 7.0 | 396K | Director, Writer | Producer, as Reacher |
 Edge of Tomorrow | 2014 | 7.9 | 818K | Writer | as Cage (not counted) |
 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation | 2015 | 7.4 | 451K | Director, Writer | Producer, as Ethan Hunt |
 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back | 2016 | 6.2 | 196K | Producer | Producer, as Jack Reacher (not counted) |
 The Mummy | 2017 | 5.4 | 226K | Writer | as Nick Morton (not counted) |
 Mission: Impossible - Fallout | 2018 | 7.7 | 426K | Writer, Director, Producer | as Ethan Hunt, Producer |
 Top Gun: Maverick | 2022 | 8.2 | 908K | Writer, Producer | Producer, as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell (not counted) |
 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | 2023 | 7.6 | 334K | Writer, Director, Producer | as Ethan Hunt, Producer |
 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | 2025 | 7.1 | 242K | Producer, Director, Writer | Producer, as Ethan Hunt |
