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Every Jamie Foxx movie, ranked by critics

17 January 2025 at 09:53
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx's Hollywood career spans over two decades.

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  • Jamie Foxx is one of Hollywood's biggest draws, starring in over 40 films through his career across many genres.
  • He received critical acclaim as the lead in movies like "Django Unchained" and "Ray," which won him an Oscar.
  • Here are all of Foxx's movie performances, ranked by critics.

For over three decades, Jamie Foxx has been a Hollywood staple, especially on the big screen, where he's played everything from a disgruntled quarterback in "Any Given Sunday" to a rugged cowboy in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained."

His latest movie, Netflix's "Back in Action," marks Cameron Diaz's first starring role in ten years. But it's also a comeback for Foxx, who suffered a stroke while the movie was in production. After months of recovery, he returned to finish the action comedy, which stars him and Diaz as CIA agents who walk away to start a family. Β 

Below, we look back at Foxx's career by ranking all his movies according their critics scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

Note: This list does not include documentaries Foxx starred in.

Zac Ntim and Keyaira Boone contributed to previous versions of this post.

Foxx's lowest-ranked movie is 2024's "Not Another Church Movie."
Jamie Foxx on a motorcycle in the clouds
Jamie Foxx in "Not Another Church Movie."

Briarcliff Entertainment

This spoof on the religious movie genre makes fun of everyone from Oprah to Tyler Perry. And yes, Foxx plays God.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 13%Β 

Critics weren't impressed by 2005's "Stealth."
"Stealth"
Jamie Foxx alongside Jessica Biel and Josh Lucas in "Stealth."

Sony Pictures

Set in the near future, the US Navy has developed a new AI-powered fighter jet. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it falls to Foxx and his partners played by Josh Lucas and Jessica Biel to stop the computer before it sparks a new world war.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 13%

Foxx led a star-studded remake of "Robin Hood" in 2018.
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Jamie Foxx and Taron Egerton in "Robin Hood."

Larry Horricks / Lionsgate

Foxx and Taron Egerton lead this modern reimagining of the classic tale of a heroic outlaw and his Merry Men who mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.Β 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 14%Β 

Foxx made one of his first substantial screen performances in the 1999 comedy "Held Up."
Jamie Foxx "Held Up"
Jamie Foxx stars alongside Nia Long in "Held Up."

Trimark Pictures

Michael Dawson (Foxx) is a successful businessman, but his life starts to fall apart while on a road trip with his wife (Nia Long) when she discovers that he splashed their entire savings to buy the car. She ditches him hitch-hiking back home while he gets stuck in the middle of an unwelcoming rural town.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 17%

Foxx rounds out a star-studded cast that includes Bradley Cooper and Jessica Biel in 2019's "Valentine's Day."
"Valentine's Day"
Jamie Foxx stars alongside Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Biel.

New Line Cinema

Through a series of intertwining vignettes, audiences watch a group of Los Angeles natives navigate their way through the highs and lows of dating on Valentine's Day.Β As the days quickly unfold, they experience first dates, make-ups, break-ups, and youthful crushes.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 18%

Jamie Foxx stars alongside Cameron Diaz in the 2025 Netflix comedy "Back in Action."
Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz in "Back in Action."
Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz in "Back in Action."

John Wilson / Netflix

Foxx and Diaz play CIA agents who go into hiding to start a family. 15 years later, their cover is blown, and after their kids are kidnapped, they must get back into the espionage game to get them back.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 21%

Foxx plays a mysterious character named The Ferryman in the forgettable 2023 movie "God Is a Bullet."
Jamie Foxx smoking
Jamie Foxx in "God Is a Bullet."

Wayward Entertainment

Foxx plays a "social renegade" who teams with a detective (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to track down the detective's daughter, who has been kidnapped by a satanic cult.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 24%

Foxx is a cop with a grudge in 2017's "Sleepless."
"Sleepless"
Jamie Foxx in "Sleepless."

Open Road Films

Foxx stars as an undercover Las Vegas police officer who is thrown into the high-stakes world of murderous gangsters and corrupt cops after a failed heist results in the kidnapping of his teenage son.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 25%

Foxx shines in Antoine Fuqua's 2000 cult classic "Bait."
"Bait"
Jamie Foxx in "Bait."

Warner Bros. Pictures

After landing in jail for petty theft, Alvin Sanders (Foxx) ends up sharing a cell with the notorious criminal John Jaster who is serving a long sentence for stealing $40,000,000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he is sick and could die at any moment, Jaster uses Sanders to send covert messages to his wife about the location of the hidden gold.Β 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 26%Β 

Foxx plays another unscrupulous cop in the violent thriller "Law Abiding Citizen."
"Law Abiding Citizen"
Jamie Foxx acts alongside Gerard Butler in "Law Abiding Citizen."

Overture Films

Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is a normal, law abiding citizen until his family is murdered during a botched home invasion and the killer is set free thanks to a plea bargain offered by the prosecutor Nick Rice (Foxx).Β  In response, Shelton takes justice into his own hands.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 26%Β 

Foxx stars as Will Stacks, the character based on daddy Warbucks, in the 2014 reimagining of the classic musical "Annie."
"Annie"
"Annie" was produced by Will and Jada-Pinkett Smith.

Sony Pictures Releasing

Foxx leads this new, progressive take on the classic tale of "Annie," about a young orphan who longs for her parents to return and save her from the clutches of her mean foster mother.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 28%

1997's "Booty Call" is one of Foxx's early comedy gems.
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Jamie Foxx is Bunz in "Booty Call."

Columbia Pictures

Rushon (Tommy Davidson) is ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend Nikki (Tamala Jones). But when he sets up a romantic date, she decides to make it a double-date and brings along her close friend Lysterine (Vivica A. Fox) who Rushon sets up with his extravagant friend Bunz (Foxx).Β 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 31%

Foxx and Gabrielle Union star in the 2004 screwball comedy "Breakin' All the Rules."
"Breakin' All the Rules"
Jamie Foxx and Gabrielle Union in "Breakin' All the Rules."

Sony Pictures

After being unceremoniously dumped by his fiancΓ©e, Quincy Watson (Foxx) writes a book on the correct way to end a relationship. And after the book is published, it becomes a surprising bestseller.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 31%

Ice Cube enlisted Foxx for his 1998 directorial debut "The Players Club."
"The Players Club"
Jamie Foxx and LisaRaye in "The Players Club"

New Line Cinema

To stay on top of her bills, Diana Armstrong (LisaRaye) starts stripping and joins the infamous Player's Club where she meets the smooth-talking DJ played by Foxx.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 35%

Foxx reprises his role as Dean "MF" Jones in 2014's "Horrible Bosses 2."
"Horrible Bosses 2"
Jamie Foxx and Jason Sudeikis in "Horrible Bosses 2."

Warner Bros. Pictures

Three friends decide to quit their jobs and go into business for themselves. And after creating the prototype for a promising new invention, the guys attract the attention of a businessman who steals their idea. In response, the trio concocts a kidnapping scheme with a small-time criminal called Dean "Motherfucker" Jones (Foxx).

Rotten Tomatoes score: 36%

Foxx has a supporting role in Todd Phillips' 2010 comedy "Due Date."
"Due Day"
Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx in "Due Date."

Warner Bros. Pictures

Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.), a successful architect, is flying home from Atlanta to Los Angeles to be with his wife who is about to give birth. On the way to the airport, he has a chance encounter with Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), but after Ethan uses the words "terrorist" and "bomb" while talking to Peter, they are both escorted off the plane and placed on a no-fly list.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 39%

Foxx plays a scheming boxer in the 1996 sports spoof "The Great White Hype."
"The Great White Hype"
Michael Jace and Jamie Foxx in "The Great White Hype."

20th Century Fox

Boxing promoter the Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) realizes that the only way to gain publicity for his top Black clients is to pit them against white boxers. But when there no white boxers available, he gets creative.Β 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 42%

Foxx teams up with Colin Farrell in 2006's "Miami Vice."
"Miami Vice"
Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell in Michael Mann's "Miami Vice."

Universal Pictures

Based on the 1980s TV show of the same name, Michael Mann's action-packed thriller follows Miami-Dade Police detectives James "Sonny" Crockett (Farrell) and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs (Foxx) whose personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined during a high-profile drug case.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 47%

Foxx lent his voice to the 2014 sequel "Rio 2."
Rio 2 Official Trailer
Jamie Foxx lends his voice alongside Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg.

20th Century Fox

The 3D computer-animated musical follows a family of Blue macaws birds who decide to relocate from the city to the Amazon jungle to become more in touch with their fellow birds.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 50%

Foxx plays the supervillain Electro in 2014's "The Amazing Spider-Man 2."
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Foxx as Electro in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2."

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Just as Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) embraces his new role as the city's new hero, Electro (Foxx), a much more powerful villain, arrives on the scene and poses the biggest threat Parker has ever faced.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 50%

Foxx is the lead in 2007's ambitious thriller "The Kingdom."
"The Kingdom"
Jamie Foxx in "The Kingdom."

Universal Pictures

After being set the most important assignment of his career, federal agent Ron Fleury (Foxx) is given one week to assemble a killer team and infiltrate a terrorist cell based in Saudi Arabia.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 51%

Legendary director Oliver Stone cast Foxx as his star for the 1999 sports drama, "Any Given Sunday."
"Any Given Sunday"
Jamie Foxx in "Any Given Sunday."

Warner Bros.

Partly based on a 1984 novel of the same name, "Any Given Sunday" follows Al Pacino as the head coach of a once-revered football team with star players who are now struggling to win a single game. Foxx plays a bench warmer turned star quarterback who lets the game go to his head.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 52%

Foxx is the US president in 2013's "White House Down."
"White House Down"
German director Roland Emmerich helmed "White House Down."

Sony Pictures Releasing

Police officer John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just failed to land his dream job of protecting President James Sawyer (Foxx) as a member of the Secret Service. And in an attempt to cheer up his young daughter, Cale takes her on a tour of the White House. But during the tour, an armed militia group attacks and takes control.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 52%

Foxx voices a foul-mouthed dog in the 2023 comedy "Strays."
Photo from "Strays" showing four dogs
Jamie Foxx starred alongside Will Ferrell.

Chuck Zlotnick/Universal Pictures

Will Ferrell voices a terrier named Reggie who has become a stray after his owner (Will Forte) pulls a trick on him. Now, Reggie and other strays he's befriended (voiced by Foxx, Isla Fisher, Rob Riggle, Randall Park, and Josh Gad) set out to get revenge on Reggie's owner.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 54%

Foxx plays a vampire hunter in the 2022 Netflix movie "Day Shift."
Jamie Foxx with a vampire hand on his shoulder
Jamie Foxx in "Day Shift."

Netflix

Foxx plays a pool cleaner in the San Fernando Valley by day whose real job is secretly hunting and killing vampires by night. Come for the action sequences, and stay for Snoop Dogg killing vampires.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 57%Β 

Foxx teams up with Robert Downey Jr. in the 2009 tearjerker "The Soloist."
"The Soloist"
Foxx portrays Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless man and former musical prodigy, in "The Soloist."

Paramount Pictures

Journalist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) is wandering through LA's Skid Row district when he spots a homeless man (Foxx) playing a two-stringed violin.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 57%Β 

Foxx stars in the intimate 2005 war epic "Jarhead."
"Jarhead"
Jamie Foxx in "Jarhead."

Universal Pictures

Jake Gyllenhaal and Foxx join forces for acclaimed British director Sam Mendes's first-person account of life at war.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 60%

Foxx led his first Netflix movie, "Project Power," in 2020.
"Project Power"
Jamie Foxx and Dominique Fishback in "Project Power."

Netflix

In near-future New Orleans, Frank (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) teams up with a rogue ex-soldier (Foxx) to track down the origins of a dangerous new drug that provides its users with temporary superpowers.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 61%

The stakes are high in Foxx's 2003 crime thriller "Shade."
"Shade"
Jamie Foxx plays a seasoned con-artist.

DEJ Productions

Tiffany (Foxx) and his crew of con artists are looking to expand their criminal portfolio and decide to scam Dean "The Dean" Stevens (Dina Merrill), a well-known poker player during a rigged game.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 67%

Jamie Foxx plays Drew Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer in the acclaimed 2001 biopic "Ali."
"Ali"
Michael Mann directed this acclaimed biopic.

Sony Pictures Releasing

The Michael Mann-directed biopic focuses on ten years in the life of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, starting with his championship debut against Sonny Liston to his conversion to Islam, banishment from boxing, and finally, his triumphant return in 1974.

Rotten Tomatoes: 69%

Foxx is the comedic heavyweight in 2011's "Horrible Bosses."
"Horrible Bosses"
Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day and Foxx in "Horrible Bosses."

New Line Cinema

One night at a bar, three friends decide to murder their overbearing and abusive bosses, and they turn to a random and seemingly inexperienced criminal (Foxx) for advice.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 69%

The first "Rio" film, out in 2011, won acclaim for its innovative animation and original songs.
"Rio"
The film was nominated for a best original song Oscar.

20th Century Fox

A set of exotic Brazilian birds are smuggled to the United States where they live a domesticated life but when Blu, a rare bird, realizes he might be the last of his species on earth, he decides to travel back home.Β 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%

Foxx is a standout in 2006's "Dreamgirls."
"Dreamgirls"
Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Hudson in "Dreamgirls."

DreamWorks Pictures

Three talented singers form a music trio called the Dreamettes, and they quickly find success after they are spotted by talent scout manager Curtis Taylor Jr. (Foxx). But the group starts to unravel as Taylor's management becomes increasingly cruel and overbearing.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%

Foxx won an Oscar for his acclaimed performance as Ray Charles in 2004's "Ray."
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Jamie Foxx in "Ray."

Universal

Foxx, in perhaps his most memorable performance, transforms into the legendary Blues musician Ray Charles who lost his sight at age 9 but would go on to define a generation of American music.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%

Foxx teamed up with Brie Larson and Michael B. Jordan for the 2019 fact-based drama "Just Mercy."
Jamie Foxx in "Just Mercy"
Jamie Foxx in "Just Mercy."

Photo: Jake Giles Netter

After graduating from Harvard Law school, Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) leaves for Alabama to open a law clinic dedicated to defending death row inmates. One of his first cases is Walter McMillian (Foxx), who was sentenced to die in 1987 for the murder of an 18-year-old girl despite overwhelming evidence proving his innocence.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%

One of Foxx's first on-screen roles was in the 1996 his "The Truth About Cats & Dogs."
"The Truth About Cats & Dogs"
Jamie Foxx and Ben Chaplin in "The Truth About Cats & Dogs."

20th Century Fox

A popular radio show host (Janeane Garofalo) is asked out on a date by one of her listeners, but when she backs out due to nerves she sends her friend Noelle (Uma Thurman) in her place.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%

Michael Mann teamed Foxx with Tom Cruise in the acclaimed 2004 thriller "Collateral."
collateral
Tom Cruise and Foxx in "Collateral."

Paramount Pictures

Foxx plays an LA cab driver who realizes that the friendly passenger he's been driving around is actually a deadly hitman who has been executing murders all evening. And the final person on the kill list is one of his friends.

Foxx earned a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for this role in the same year he won the best actor Oscar for "Ray."

Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%

Foxx takes the lead in Quentin Tarantino's 2012 neo-Western "Django Unchained."
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Jamie Foxx in "Django Unchained."

The Weinstein Company

In 1858, three years before the civil war, Django (Foxx), a freed slave from the South, sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner with the help of an enigmatic German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz).

Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%

Foxx starred in Edgar Wright's acclaimed 2017 heist thriller "Baby Driver."
baby driver
Ansel Elgort, Jamie Foxx, Eiza GonzΓ‘lez, and Jon Hamm in "Baby Driver."

Sony Pictures

Baby (Ansel Elgort) is a talented getaway driver for Atlanta's most dangerous criminals. But after he meets the woman of his dreams (Lily James), he decides to leave the business β€” until he is forced into one more big gig by an enigmatic crime boss (Kevin Spacey). Foxx plays one of the thugs Baby drives around.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

Foxx plays a flashy lawyer in the 2023 legal drama "The Burial."
Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx in suits standing on a stairwell
Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx in "The Burial."

Amazon Prime

Based on true events, Foxx plays Willie E. Gary, an unconventional lawyer who helps a funeral home owner with financial troubles (Tommy Lee Jones) save his family business from a corporate behemoth.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

Foxx returned as Electro/Max Dillon in the 2021 box office smash "Spider-Man: No Way Home."
Jamie Foxx as Max Dillon in "Spider-Man: No Way Home."
Jamie Foxx in "Spider-Man: No Way Home."

Sony P

Seven years after showing up in the Marvel universe in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," Foxx got another shot at the MCU appearing as one of the villains three Peter Parkers (Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire) must face off with.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%

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Foxx plays a jazz musician trying to get out of a coma in the 2020 Pixar movie "Soul."
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Jamie Foxx plays Joe Gardner in "Soul."

Pixar

In this acclaimed Pixar movie, Foxx plays Joe Gardner, a middle school teacher and aspiring jazz pianist who falls into a coma after an accident and must unite his soul and body in time for his big break as a jazz musician.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%

Foxx stars opposite Teyonah Parris and John Boyega in the 2023 Netflix sci-fi comedy "They Cloned Tyrone."
screenshot of Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, and John Boyega in a car in a scene from they cloned tyrone
Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, and John Boyega in "They Cloned Tyrone."

Parrish Lewis/Netflix

Foxx, Teyonah Parris, and John Boyega give outstanding performances as a trio who set out to uncover a government cloning conspiracy.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%

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