This is the performance of Cruise's career. In Jerry Maguire he has found a part exploits the showboating swagger of his earlier roles, and also finds something deeper -- the still beating heart beneath the corporate bluster.

Jerry still isn't sure how to be a human being -- at least in the beginning and the middle of the film. And watching Cruise's character evolve -- yet keep his sense of humor -- is what makes this film so much fun.

Again and again, as you watch Jerry fight several kinds of loserdom that seem ever ready to devour him, you're aware of watching ground that's been gone over before, but not with as much freshness and point as Crowe brings to it.

My favorite Tom Cruise performance