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Sandra Bullock Season

Sandra Bullock Season

No, Tom Cruise is not the last movie star.

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Marshall Shaffer
Aug 08, 2022
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Summer 2022 very clearly belongs to Tom Cruise, whose star power and showmanship helped fly Top Gun Maverick to a stratospheric $660 million domestic gross (and counting). Naturally, the correlation between his screen persona and the film’s success prompted everyone from The New York Times to The Wrap to IndieWire to declare that Cruise is our last grea…

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