Top Gun 2 Gives Tom Cruise His Best Rotten Tomatoes Streak Yet
Tom Cruise has been in 44 movies since 1986, but thanks to Top Gun: Maverick reviews, he now has the highest average Rotten Tomatoes score of his 40-year career. Cruise is certainly no stranger to praise from movie critics, but the last few years have seen some of his best-reviewed movies, bringing his average score in Rotten Tomatoes to the highest it's ever been.
The first movie Tom Cruise is credited with is Endless Love, but his lead role in Risky Business is what really put him on the map, leading to one of the most high-profile filmographies in Hollywood. In his decades-spanning career, Cruise has seen a number of small transformations, but his more recent insistence on performing his own insane stunts on-screen has led to a string of action movies with some of the best Rotten Tomatoes scores of his career.
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In addition to performing his own stunts, Cruise's reputation as a pilot also served as a big talking point for his role in American Made, perfectly setting the stage for him to reprise the role of Lt. Pete «Maverick» Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick. While the original Top Gun wasn't very well-reviewed, Top Gun: Maverick has one of the highest Rotten Tomatoes scores of cruise's career, bringing the average for his entire filmography to its highest point ever.
Tom Cruise is on the best-reviewed stretch of his career with four of his last seven movies (Edge of Tomorrow, Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, Mission: Impossible — Fallout, and now Top Gun: Maverick) earning scores over the 90 percent mark (with a fifth movie, American Made, scoring 85 percent). Cruise has enjoyed a number of movies with scores in the low 90s or high 80s over the course of his career, but the last
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