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Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire (1996)

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 9

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.

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 2

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.

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Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success built on an original script by writer/director Cameron Crowe and an Oscar-nominated performance by Tom Cruise. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent with a major sports management firm. He's enthusiastic, successful, a great negotiator and people like him. But it begins to dawn on Jerry that there's something wrong with what he's doing, and not long after a troubling encounter with the son of an injured

R, 2 hr. 18 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Cameron Crowe

Jun 24, 1997

TriStar Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Jerry Maguire

All Critics (60) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (9) | DVD (28)

Smartly written and boasting a sensational cast, Cameron Crowe's shrewdly observed third feature also gives Tom Cruise one of his very best roles...

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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There 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.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
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Cruise 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.

March 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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Disarming acting, colorful writing and true generosity of spirit keep it right on track.

May 20, 2003 Comment
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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There's much to admire in Jerry Maguire, except Jerry Maguire.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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This is a wholly unexpected film, as heady and surprising in its humor as in its emotional texture.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy is well acted by Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. (in an Oscar-winning turn), but as a tale of redemption, the movie is not too deep and goes out of its way to satisfy viewers' expectations of a happy ending.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment
Emanuel Levy
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competently made parallel plotted film whose buddy sports film elements outshine its rom-com aspects.

July 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinemania | Comment
Dan Jardine
Cinemania Source: Cinemania

competently made parallel plotted film whose buddy sports film elements outshine its rom-com aspects.

July 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

Tom Cruise is in top form playing Jerry Maguire, a slick sports agent with a heart.

February 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A romantic comedy with attitude . . . and more laughs than a beer commercial.

September 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
James Plath
Movie Metropolis

Even Cruise can't capsize Cameron Crowe's entertaining romantic drama.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
Film4 Source: Film4

Feel-good Cruise flick; racier than you remember.

October 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Teresa Talerico
Common Sense Media

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.

March 26, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment (1)
TV Guide's Movie Guide

"Jerry Maguire" doesn't stop until it shows you the quan.

October 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | Comment
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

Surely the film could have been shorter, but this unabashed Hollywood exercise tricked me into liking it.

July 22, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Lauded as a witty moral fable with a revelatory performance from its star, this romantic comedy is in fact meretricious, manipulative and reactionary.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
Geoff Andrew
Time Out Source: Time Out

Both sides of the story, the sports and the romance, mesh well.

September 11, 2005 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Tom Cruise give his best performance yet.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Exceptional.

October 29, 2003 Full Review | Comment
Dragan Antulov
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Having Humour, Romance, Drama and Sports all wrapped up into one breathtaking film, has never been established any better than the way that "Jerry Maguire" does it. Tom Cruise plays a business working in the sports industry. Once he finds himself in a rut, not sleeping and not gaining specific revenue, he quits his job

January 13, 2010
KJ Proulx
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Tom Cruise was great as always in this movie where he played a sports agent for the NFL. Safe to say,Tom Cruise never seizes to amaze me!!! This movie definetly deserves 5 stars!!! I loved Renee, Bonnie and Cuba as well!!! :) <3 :) I just love it!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

February 19, 2008
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    1. Himself: Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.
    – Submitted by Maria Y (10 days ago)
    1. Dorothy Boyd: First class, that's what's wrong. It used to be a better meal, now it's a better life.
    – Submitted by Maria Y (10 days ago)
    1. Jerry Maguire: I love you. You... you complete me. And I just...
    2. Dorothy Boyd: Shut up, just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.
    – Submitted by Maria Y (10 days ago)
    1. Dorothy Boyd: I just want to be inspired.
    – Submitted by Maria Y (10 days ago)
    1. Dorothy Boyd: I love him! I love him for the man he wants to be. And I love him for the man he almost is.
    – Submitted by Maria Y (10 days ago)

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