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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

By Adam Woodward

Tom Cruise reprises his role as Lee Child’s enigmatic hero in a sequel that fails to hit the ground running.

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My Scientology Movie

By Gabriela Helfet

The UK’s most cordial muckraker heads over to the US to look into the Church of Scientology.

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Who are Steven Spielberg’s greatest artistic muses?

By Victoria Luxford

Mark Rylance is the latest in a list of key collaborators who bring out the best in The Beard.

Why War of the Worlds is the greatest blockbuster of the 21st century

By Adam Woodward

Steven Spielberg’s alien invasion epic offers a boldly personal take on a contemporary global crisis.

Why Edge of Tomorrow is the greatest blockbuster of the 21st century

By Craig Williams

This tricksy, time-looping caper acts as a telling metaphor for the repeated resurgence of its leading man, Tom Cruise.

Dreaming Big – The greatest blockbusters of the 21st century

By Little White Lies

Twelve writers pin their colours to the tentpole in our survey of the best summer movies of the modern era.

How Mission: Impossible set the blueprint for the modern actioner

By Victoria Luxford

Twenty years ago Brian De Palma and Tom Cruise ushered in a new blockbuster era.

Top Gun at 30 – a rookie’s guide to an ’80s classic

By Adam Lee Davies

A first-time flyer attempts to glean the plot of this cherished Tom Cruise vehicle from 30 years of pop culture collateral.

Why Mission: Impossible III is the pinnacle of the Tom Cruise spy franchise

By David Ehrlich

It’s all down to an incredible antagonist as played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Edge of Tomorrow

By David Jenkins

A weedy Crusier is dropped into a time-switching sci-fi set-up, with undeniably interesting results.

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Jack Reacher

By Adam Woodward

Not even Werner Herzog can’t save this slick but mediocre Tom Cruise vehicle.

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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

By Matt Bochenski

Twenty minutes of Dubai-based blockbuster gold aside, Ghost Protocol is kind of flat, inert and not all that exciting.

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Knight and Day

By Laurence Boyce

While you hardly expect a summer blockbuster to be massively original this film is so derivative it’s almost ridiculous.

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Valkyrie

By Matt Bochenski

Tom Cruise plays a Nazi with a moral compass in this drab historical drama from director Bryan Singer.

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