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Kim Hollis: What are your three favorite Tom Cruise films, and what is your least favorite Tom Cruise film?

Edwin Davies: My favorites would probably be Minority Report, Collateral and A Few Good Men, with an honorable mention for Magnolia, which features my favorite performance of his but which I don't think counts as a Tom Cruise film since he's not really the star. Least favorite would probably be Top Gun, which I've never really understood the appeal of.

Felix Quinonez: Tom Cruise has done A LOT of movies and even though he might not have a great reputation anymore I believe that he has a really strong track record, quality wise. Because of this I'm picking my top six Tom Cruise movies which are, MI4, MI3, Collateral, Jerry Maguire, Far and Away, and Born on the Fourth of July. And honorable mention goes to Top Gun because that movie rules. My least favorite of his movies is Knight and Day.

Brett Ballard-Beach: Least favorite (of the ones I have seen which is about 90%) is Cocktail, which not even a sex scene with Elisabeth Shue in a waterfall pushes that to up "check it out when you're home sick and bored out of your mind" status.

For favorite: I would probably go with Minority Report, for being such a great popcorn film, film noir, sci fi, societal indictment, et al. Twelve years on, I don't feel it is discussed as much as it should be. It also contains a great scene, in the hotel room with the photographs, where he believes he's found the answer to what happened to his son. His line "I am going to kill this man," a decade even before I had a family of my own, his delivery of that line would bring tears to my eyes.

Other faves: MI: Ghost Protocol slightly over MIII (I think the look on his face that says "Yep, I'm fucking doing this" as he buckles in and prepares to drive the car straight down the shaft at 90 miles an hour is a sublime moment of Cruise-ness and Interview with the Vampire which is ridiculous enough to be immensely entertaining and for making Anne Rice palatable for me.

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