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Thursday, December 25, 2008 12:00 AM

"Valkyrie"

Tom Cruise leads a cast of actors giving terrible performances in a big-budget Nazi thriller that's just following orders.
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Saturday, December 27, 2008 04:53 PM

    From A Boy Into A Boy...Only Older

    Poor Tom. Rose to success on his youthful good looks and charm before he learned how to act, spent the last few decades in full view of the world attempting to do so, and hit pre-middle age with still no evidence that he could. It isn't just that he continues to choose roles that are beyond him, he repeatedly sees himself as characters for which he's dreadfully miscast--The MI films, War Of The Worlds, Eyes Wide Shut, et. al. I can't shake the feeling that I'm seeing a kid playing dress-up in his dad's clothes. Stick to romantic comedies, TC. Think “Luke Wilson” in lifts.

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