M83′s Anthony Gonzalez and producer Joseph Trapanese discuss the process of creating the film’s score
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Tom Cruise in Oblivion: Drones and Clones on Planet Earth
One of Hollywood’s last stars wins battles against enemy spacecraft, but he can’t infuse this artsy sci-fi film with emotional vitality
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Admission Accomplished: 10 Great Getting-Into-College Movies
With the rom-com ‘Admission’ playing in theaters, TIME presents an honor roll of movies about kids trying to get into the college of their choice
Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing
The star’s new crime drama gets undermined by the suddenly dour pre-Christmas mood—and by not being a very good movie
Lee Child on His New Thriller, Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher and Wandering Heroes
“They’re all page-turners, but this one really goes hell to leather.”
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Reel Love: Top 10 Movies that Led to Off-Screen Romances
As rumors swirl around the young stars of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man,’ TIME looks back at some movies that sparked real-life relationships
Tom Cruise at 50: Where Does the Newly Single Star Go From Here?
Cruise celebrates his 50th birthday on July 3 — just days after his third wife, Katie Holmes, filed for divorce. TIME looks back at all the blockbuster movies, love interests, couch-jumping and Scientology videos that have …
Spoiler Alert: What’s Warm and Fuzzy Beneath All the Leather in Rock of Ages
The semi-regular series in which we totally spoil one of the weekend’s films. If you saw ‘Rock of Ages,’ please chime in below.
Madagascar 3 Smashes Cruise’s Rock, Shames Sandler’s Boy
Movies with two top stars fall to the DreamWorks animation juggernaut. Are Tom and Adam at a career crossroads, or heading off the box-office cliff?
Julianne Hough on Pole Dancing, Rock of Ages, and Stealing from Harry Potter
Julianne Hough is a quadruple threat: actor, singer, dancer, and…thief? As an 11-year-old extra in the first Harry Potter, “I tried to steal a Gryffindor scarf, so I could prove I was in the movie,” she recalls. “Then they …
Rock of Ages Is Sometimes Fun-Awful—But Mostly It’s Just Awful
Though Tom Cruise fire-breathes some life into this ripoff of ’80s hair-metal rock, it’s still a ludicrously bad Schlock of Ages
Mish Imp 4 Gives Hollywood a Happy New Year’s (Weekend)
Tom Terrific helps spur the box office to a 3% boost over same time, last year
Mish Imp 4 Cruises on a Very Merry Day After Christmas
The box office sprang back to life on Boxing Day, with Tom Cruise’s action adventure and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse as the prime winners