Entertainment Weekly says ” “Valkyrie” succeeds on its own terms as a handsome hybrid of conspiracy thriller and history lesson” and calls the mechanics of the actual plot “pretty amazing”:

Valkyrie (2008)

Once the fodder for gossip as brassy as a Wagner horn solo, the behind-the-scenes operatics that delayed the release of Valkyrie are quickly forgotten the minute Tom Cruise gets down to the business of plotting to kill Adolf Hitler. Cruise plays Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, a Good German famous to his countrymen for his resistance to the Nazi mandate but less known among Americans. Trained as a loyal soldier, the well-bred officer’s disgust at his Führer’s leadership deepened following severe wounds suffered during battle in Tunisia, where he lost a hand and an eye. And the assassination plan and subsequent government transition that Stauffenberg devised, with help from a network of dissident army officers and political leaders, was an audacious blend of suspenseful daring and wonkish political strategy.

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Forget the Internet hysteria. This Tom Cruise vehicle is a perfectly acceptable motion picture.

Hollywood and the people who brought you World War II have been making beautiful music together for decades, and “Valkyrie,” the new Tom Cruise vehicle, doesn’t disturb that melody.

The story of a real-life bomb plot against German leader Adolf Hitler’s life — spearheaded by the patriotic aristocrat Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, played by Cruise — “Valkyrie” is made with impeccable professionalism and, flying in the face of years of Internet hysteria, is a perfectly acceptable motion picture. The only thing that keeps it from even greater accomplishments may be inherent in the story itself.

Certainly the July 20, 1944, conspiracy against the Führer is one of the more compelling narratives to come out of World War II, and, frankly, the less you know about it, the more likely you are to appreciate the film that screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander and director Bryan Singer have constructed around it.

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I know what Tom Cruise did to make people bash him on a regular basis. He’s a Scientologist; he says things that he has no business talking about on national TV (the Matt Lauer episode); and he has come across as insincere, bordering on nuts (the couch jumping).

I get it. It makes it hard to distinguish between his personal life and his acting. But I just don’t care about any of it. I don’t care about his marriage, his religion, his kids, any of it. Because I don’t go to the movies to witness the thrill of seeing an actor’s personal life unfold before me. I go to the movies to sit back and to be entertained by a good movie.

So when a Tom Cruise film comes out, I want to see it because it is almost always going to be a good movie.

Here’s why: effort. When I see a movie starring Mr. Cruise, I always get the impression that he has poured everything into the film’s success. He just looks like he works hard. He acts as if he does not want us to waste our money, and that he believes we’ve put our faith in him, and so he’s going to repay us by making a good movie. Do I sound like I’m bordering on nuts, too? Perhaps — but I’m also right.

If Tom Cruise did not work so hard, he would be Timothy Hutton. No offense to Hutton, an excellent actor who won an Academy Award, is now starring on a good TV show, and who starred in Taps with Cruise. What do I mean by comparing Cruise to Hutton? I’ll explain by making a sacrilegious comparison: I’m going to compare Cruise to Michael Jordan.

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Tom Cruise has revealed Suri was left in tears by the emotional finale to his Oscar-winning movie Rain Man.

The doting dad told how his two-year-old burst out crying when his character left his autistic brother Raymond, played by Dustin Hoffman.

“I not like this movie!” she moaned to her daddy.

Tom was making an appearance on T.V show Jimmy Kimmel Live.

(Source: Entertainmentwise)

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South African born actress Charlize Theron will star with Tom Cruise in The Tourist. Directed by Bharat Nalluri, the film is a remake of the French thriller film Anthony Zimmer.

Theron plays an Interpol agent who uses an American tourist in an attempt to flush out an elusive criminal who was once her lover.

The film will start shooting in March.

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Yvette Manessis-Corporon is an Emmy-award winning writer and producer. She is also the co-author of “Peeing in Peace: Tales and Tips for Type A Moms”. Yvette lives in New York with her husband and two children.
This is what she has to say about Tom Cruise:

How Tom Cruise is helping the victims of 9/11, including my own family.

Momlogic’s Yvette: I make my living interviewing celebrities, so I’m not the one who usually gets star struck. But recently, I found there is one exception to my rule: Tom Cruise. I’ve interviewed Tom many times and he’s always charming, polite and entertaining. But this time I had an opportunity to speak to Tom not just as a producer, but as a wife and mother. It was a conversation I’ll never forget, an experience I’ll cherish forever and one my entire family will be eternally grateful for.

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I’ve upload a lot of scans into the gallery! Thanks to Mariana, Lorna and Elmira!

- Heat – December 13th-19th, 2008
- Now December 11th, 2008
- People Magazine – April 28, 1997
- People Magazine – May 12, 1997
- Sky Movies Suplement – December 2008
- Total Film October/December 2008
- Elle Russia – July 2008
- Film Review – October 1986
- Joy Russia – February 2007
- Joy Russia – November 2007
- Madame Figaro Russia – July/August 2007
- OK Magazine Russia – October 4, 2007
- Misc Clippings & Scans from 1994/1995

Alternatively, you can view all the latest uploaded scans in one page by clicking here

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