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50 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Total FilmMatt MaytumTotal FilmMatt MaytumCruise is on top form in a based-on-fact thriller that overcomes its familiar trappings with audacious details and flat-out pacing.
- 80EmpireAlex GodfreyEmpireAlex GodfreyCruise is as compelling as ever with charm to spare, and this is a ceaselessly entertaining, sometimes tense romp. Although it doesn’t dig much below the surface.
- 70VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeA sweat-slicked, exhausting but glibly entertaining escapade on its own terms, American Made is more interesting as a showcase for the dateless elasticity of Cruise’s star power. It feels, for better or worse, like a film he could have made at almost any point in the last 30 years.
- 70Screen DailySarah WardScreen DailySarah WardIt’s a breezy trip for the star, making ample use of his usual charisma, urgency, grin and gift of the gab, though the late ’70s/early ’80s-set film doesn’t completely hit the mark.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThis is yet another hyper-competent, boyishly devil-may-care character that offers Cruise, famous for his derring-do on set, a chance to do his own stunts and fly a plane; it’s not a role all that far out of the ageing megastar’s wheelhouse.
- 60Time Out LondonAnna SmithTime Out LondonAnna SmithLiman mines the story for familiar but fun comedy...though it never reaches the comedic heights of rise-and-fall classics such as Goodfellas or The Wolf of Wall Street.
- 60CineVueMartyn ConterioCineVueMartyn ConterioCruise rides the Breaking Bad and Narcos train, only not as well as either.