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Christopher McQuarrie has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Usual Suspects.
The Usual Suspects
1995 · Movie · Writer
Top 1%Max · Included
Top Gun: Maverick
2022 · Movie · Writer
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 2%Paramount+ · Included
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 2%Netflix · Included
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 4%Paramount+ · Included
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 7%Prime Video · Included
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
Dir. Doug Liman · With Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
Dir. Joseph Kosinski · With Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis
One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought into custody. The interrogation yields one written note: 'Get Jack Reacher!'. Reacher, an enigmatic ex-Army investigator, believes the authorities have the right man but agrees to help the sniper's defense attorney. However, the more Reacher delves into the case, the less clear-cut it appears. So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.
Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · With Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ewan McGregor
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Dir. Alex Kurtzman · With Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella
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