Christopher McQuarrie
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The ThumbScore for Christopher McQuarrie (79.5%) is the average audience approval rating across 6 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Christopher's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Christopher McQuarrie (born October 25, 1968) is an American filmmaker. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects (1995). He made his directorial debut with the crime thriller film The Way of the Gun (2000). McQuarrie is a frequent collaborator with Tom Cruise, having written and directed the action film Jack Reacher (2012), as well as four installments of the Mission: Impossible film series: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), Dead Reckoning (2023), and The Final Reckoning (2025), in addition to uncredited rewrites on Ghost Protocol (2011). He was also a part of the writing and/or producing team on the Cruise films Valkyrie (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016), The Mummy (2017), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), the last of which received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
Uncredited writing work Batman & Robin (1997) X-Men (2000) Ghost Ship (2002) Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) World War Z (2013) The Wolverine (2013) Rogue One (2016) === Television ===
Born 1968-10-25 in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, USA.
On ThumbScore, Christopher McQuarrie appears in 6 films with an average audience score of 79.5%, most frequently in the Action genre.
