Even Cruise can't capsize Cameron Crowe's entertaining romantic drama.
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07/31/08
Jerry Maguire (1996)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:47
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Anchored by dazzling performances from Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Renée Zellweger, as well as Cameron Crowe's tender direction, Jerry Maguire meshes romance and sports with panache.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: What happens when a man tries to apply moral standards to his job in an industry of greed? He gets fired. Tom Cruise plays Jerry Maguire, a slick sports agent who realizes that he hates how he is... [More]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding, Jonathan Lipnicki
Director: Cameron Crowe
Reviews for Jerry Maguire
Top CriticLauded as a witty moral fable with a revelatory performance from its star, this romantic comedy is in fact meretricious, manipulative and reactionary.
02/09/06
Top CriticDirector Cameron Crowe has written and directed a deft, funny, shamelessly upbeat romantic comedy and to top it all drawn out the finest performance of Tom Cruise's career.
01/01/00
Top Criticcompetently made parallel plotted film whose buddy sports film elements outshine its rom-com aspects.
07/02/09
Tom Cruise is in top form playing Jerry Maguire, a slick sports agent with a heart.
02/07/09
Smartly written and boasting a sensational cast, Cameron Crowe's shrewdly observed third feature also gives Tom Cruise one of his very best roles...
07/31/08
Top CriticThere is a recognizable ordinariness about the way these people stumble in and out of trouble, in and out of grace -- an ambiguous note, at once tart and sweet, knowing and innocent, in their relationships.
07/31/08
Top CriticCruise seems to have grown as much as Jerry, for he brings gentleness, warmth and lightheartedness to this role, qualities that we haven't seen since he played air guitar in his underpants in Risky Business 13 years ago.
03/26/07
A meandering and deeply shallow tale of spiritual redemption, built around the Teflon persona of Tom Cruise and driven by the conviction that all emotions worth expressing can be summed up in pop songs.
03/26/07
Top Critic"Jerry Maguire" doesn't stop until it shows you the quan.
10/15/06
Surely the film could have been shorter, but this unabashed Hollywood exercise tricked me into liking it.
07/22/06
Both sides of the story, the sports and the romance, mesh well.
09/11/05
Tom Cruise give his best performance yet.
04/09/05
Exceptional.
10/29/03
Disarming acting, colorful writing and true generosity of spirit keep it right on track.
05/20/03
Top CriticFunny and warmhearted, this romantic comedy has it all: a gentle love story, crackling dialogue, social satire and uplifting themes.
05/20/03
Sports-agent epic about humanity in the face of commercialism still stands as Cruise's and Crowe's best work.
11/07/02
One of the things I liked best about this movie is the quality of the women's characters.
10/15/02
It has a lot of charm and it's smarter than most Hollywood movies. It's terrific entertainment.
09/10/02
An engaging and full-tilt movie about how attention enhances both love and work.
05/08/02
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