Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning isn’t very good
This series has raised the bar so high for action filmmaking that its faults seem all the more egregious
Tom cruise
Wednesday
Wednesday
Val Kilmer should be more appreciated in death than he was in life
He had a remarkable career in American film, and one that can be seen more clearly now
Monday
Why the Super Bowl was worth watching
Tuning into the big game is a great way to take our nation’s cultural pulse
The hits and misses of the Super Bowl trailers
A promising Marvel movie?
Monday
Why was Tom Cruise’s Olympics appearance so weird?
It may not have helped that, in France, Scientology is not regarded as a religion, but as a cult
Monday
Glen Powell is your new favorite movie star
Twisters represents his latest assault on the box office and America’s affections alike
Thursday
Edward Zwick on his hits — and his misses
Hits, Flops and Other Illusions is a fascinating book, both for what it includes and what it either omits or deals with in parentheses
Monday
Tom Cruise must run to save the world
He runs because that is what he is there for, because it is who he is, because he is a creation meant always to be in motion
Wednesday
Mission: Impossible makes the Daniel Craig Bond movies seem anemic and dull
The Craig films appear ‘made by people who are embarrassed to make a Bond film’
Wednesday
The death of the movie star
Hollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king
Tuesday
Kevin Spacey’s transatlantic fall from grace
The British legal system will decide his fate
Wednesday
America has lost her Top Gun spirit
And no well-intentioned sequel can pretend otherwise
Friday
Zelensky is the star of the Cannes Festival
Cannes is back, bébé
Tuesday
Eyes wide open
Frederic Raphael wrote the script for Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Now he writes a personal letter to the director’s shade
Tuesday
Hollywood parrots the Chinese Communist party line
For almost a decade, American cinema has rolled over and had its fluffy belly tickled by grim-faced CCP censors
