Tag: Tom Cruise
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Movie Review: “Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski, USA 2022)
For a time when I was roughly 10-13 years old, I thought Top Gun (Tony Scott, USA 1986) was the greatest movie ever. I watched it many times, to the point that I can still remember every beat of it even though I haven’t seen it in more than two decades. One of the first…
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Movie Review: “Edge of Tomorrow” (Doug Liman, USA/Australia 2014)
I think a lot about the basis of the critic’s job. A critic’s job is to find the director’s purpose and judge how well the director succeeded in achieving that goal. Many would say that putting any value judgments on whether that goal was worth achieving is beyond the purview of a critic and while…
Crowd of Full Pockets 