Tom Cruise Sam Shepard John Carpenter And The Rest Of This Week S Screenings

• Words and Pictures

Critics are calling Cold in July one of the year’s best thrillers—except for our guy, Ben Sachs, who’s calling it a shotgun marriage between the plays of Sam Shepard and the cinema of John Carpenter. Somehow I don’t think that’s going to make it into the movie’s advertising campaign, but I know which review I’m gonna read. Also this week, I wet my pants from the sheer excitement of being in the same room with Tom Cruise, and eventually get around to reviewing his new blockbuster, Edge of Tomorrow. And Sachs recommends Words and Pictures, a romantic comedy with Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche that harks back to the era of George Cukor and Joseph L. Mankiewicz.