Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Tom Cruise"

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Vanilla Sky *** (2001, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell) – Classic Movie Review 613

Tom Cruise’s fans are in for a bit of a shock. He’s disfigured and masked for much of this arty, romantic 2001 mystery movie that’s just as posh and smart but even duller than his […]

Jan, 02

Jerry Maguire **** (1996, Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, Renée Zellweger, Jonathan Lipnicki, Kelly Preston, Jerry O’Connell, Jay Mohr, Bonnie Hunt, Regina King) – Classic Movie Review 612

Cameron Crowe hasn’t yet been able to top or even quite equal the enormous success of his 1996 triumph Jerry Maguire, though it is not for want of trying with classy items like Almost Famous, […]

Jan, 02

Collateral **** (2004, Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Irma P Hall) – Classic Movie Review 529

Director Michael (Heat, Ali, Manhunter) Mann’s very, very good 2004 existential crime thriller tantalisingly conjures up memories of European film noir art movies, especially those of Jean-Pierre Melville. It boasts a fine screenplay by Stuart […]

Dec, 15

War of the Worlds **** (2005, Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 525

Relentlessly efficient, hyper-adrenalin-charged and with seamless special effects, director Steven Spielberg’s chilling, heart-pounding monster movie took its rightful place as the 2005 summer number one blockbuster. Loosely based on the novel by H G Wells, it […]

Dec, 15

Minority Report **** (2002, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) – Classic Movie Review 484

Tom Cruise teams up with director Steven Spielberg in 2002 to play a ‘precognitive’ cop of the future, Detective John Anderton, who can predict murders and arrest the killers before they act. But then he’s […]

Dec, 07

The Last Samurai **** (2003, Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, Tony Goldwyn) – Classic Movie Review 379

With a flash of his pearly whites and his big Samurai sword, Tom Cruise enjoyed in 2003 perhaps his most complex and demanding role so far as Captain Nathan Algren. Having battled in the US […]

Nov, 09

Magnolia ***** (1999, Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 319

In 2000 Tom Cruise won the Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor and his third Oscar nomination, playing one of the dozen main characters of this brilliant, quite extraordinary multi-drama of intertwined lives unfolding one cataclysmic day in the San […]

Oct, 23

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