Transportive cinema is never better when a great actor and director (Cameron Crowe) are, well, showing us the money and letting us go on an emotional shopping spree.

| Oct 26, 2024

For all its salient points about surviving in the ’90s workplace and rediscovering the true measure of success, the film is ultimately an old-fashioned love story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2023

A promising filmmaker gives audiences just what they crave with Jerry Maguire, a moderately in depth look at the world of sports client management.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 12, 2022

One of the most popular and important romantic comedies of the 1990s (25th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2021

Jerry Maguire still holds up as a superb emotional roller-coaster, charming comedy and surprisingly deep meditation on intimacy, connectivity and toxic masculinity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 11, 2021

Young Tom Cruise's stock characters were arrogant, self-centered, slick, warrior-magician-dominant boyish-men, who eventually evolve their inner lover and king, per the mytho-poetic men's movement vernacular. "Jerry Maguire" is a perfect example.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2021

Jerry Maguire benefits tremendously from Cruise's magnetic and predictably charismatic turn as the arrogant yet sympathetic central character...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2021

The dialogue is superb, bringing these relatable characters and their grounded situations an extraordinary sense of authenticity and hilarity.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 14, 2020

Jerry Maguire offers the best of both worlds: romance and sports.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 6, 2020

It's an easy charmer that manages to avoid the paint-by-numbers traps most romantic comedies fall into. Cruise should make more movies like this and Cameron Crowe should make more movies, period.

| Original Score: B | Feb 22, 2019

On the jock front, Gooding is so believable in his role as Jerry's selfish, pea-brained, wide receiver client that the Dallas Cowboys might consider signing him to complement Michael Irvin.

| Dec 18, 2018

Cruise brilliantly portrays a man on the brink of losing his marbles and his grip on reality as he knows it: he's hilarious, sad and desperate but still seems charming in this 1996 movie.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

Zellweger's rumpled, anti-star quality plays in perfect contrast to Preston's buff and polish. She redeems Jerry Maguire and Tom Cruise, too by making him human again.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 24, 2016

I like Crowe's movies; I mostly enjoyed this one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2016

This comedy has everything going for it, not least of which is Cruise's most appealing performance since Risky Business.

| Aug 24, 2016

Cruise's relationship with Zellweger's character is fascinating, far deeper and more honest than the usual cookie-cutter romance.

| Aug 24, 2016

It's Cameron Crowe's finest hour.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 24, 2016

The halting romance between Maguire and Dorothy -- he fearing intimacy, she admiring his budding humanity -- is one of the film's surpassing pleasures. The excellent supporting cast is another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2016

Cruise is very good in small moments with Dorothy's son, played charmingly by Jonathan Lipnicki, but in some of the bigger scenes his performance is so wrong-headed you can't imagine what he was thinking.

| Aug 24, 2016

Cruise gives perhaps his most appealing performance ever in what is arguably his best movie.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 24, 2016