Every Tom Cruise Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama Magnolia is an ensemble piece with an impossibly packed cast (Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Melora Walters, Jeremy Blackman), but you can't come away from the film without agreeing that Tom Cruise steals the show.

As self-help guru Frank Mackey, Cruise is magnetic, disturbing, haunted, energetic and strangely fragile. He plays Frank as a man unsure of himself despite his confidence and damaged by a past he'd rather forget.

Watching him go from aggravatingly arrogant to weeping by his dying father's bedside is a perfect encapsulation of how great a performer Cruise can be at his best, and the fact he didn't win the Oscar for his performance is certainly one of the Academy's biggest snubs.