Tom Cruise

Mann skips off convention like a stone on a river...impassively observing his Hitchcockian hero: dragged into action and struggling to save the day from a sympathetic devil.

Has all the mechanized ingenuity of one of those dazzling Tripods, but the bigger they are....it's the gutless ending that renders War of the Worlds most insulting.

A thrill ride, and a gripping one: plausibility-straining, predictable at times, but pulse-pounding all the same.

A crowd-pleasing romantic comedy with enough complexity to set it ahead of the pack.

A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours.

It's easy to forget the idiosyncracies of a film that so successfully trades on adolescent male fantasies and nightmares.

An unofficial "sideways sequel" to Top Gun...except with national treasure Robert Duvall in the role of crusty mentor.

[A] pleasing throwback to 1970s war-intrigue pictures.

As a pure popcorn, dreams-writ-large, kiss-kiss-bang-bang, globetrotting romp, Knight and Day delivers.

There's something indelible about Rain Man, and not only to those of us who lived through the time when it was a zeitgeist movie.

Shankman's frappé of '80s rock is hideous, but weirdly fascinating...this is a movie you'll never be able to un-see, so think carefully...

[McQuarrie] spreads a unearned veneer of intelligence over...a plot one character aptly describes as 'grassy-knoll ludicrous.'

A fairly eye-popping futuristic war story with a clever (to a point) structure.

McQuarrie doesn't make it easy to invest in the characters here, but paradoxically he does know how to make us grip our armrests as they face danger, and thus the mission is accomplished once more.

As a story to speak to our hearts and minds, it's an utter failure, and perhaps so too even as a disposable corporate product. 

Seal’s story is a fascinating one worth investigating...As played by Cruise, he’s like Maverick gone to seed.

Fallout proves deliberately dizzying, not just with its oft-vertiginous action, but in its outrageous plotting, its deliriously absurd entanglements of double agents, double crosses, and just plain doubles...