Nazi role won't be a career-changer a la Nicholson, Newman
(NEWSER) - The prospect of Tom Cruise as a renegade Nazi has moviegoers snickering already, and with good reason, Stephen Metcalf writes for Slate. No one expects Cruise to pull off a mid-career tour de force as the giants who came before him did. “Place Cruise next to Nicholson, Newman, and Tracy,” Metcalf writes, “and he is a riddle.” Cruise follows a different template. “Place him next to Reagan, and he is not so confounding at all.” More»