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'Mondovino': Making Wine in a Global Market

Fresh Air | By John Powers

Published April 19, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

John Powers

John Powers is the pop culture and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He previously served for six years as the film critic.

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The two hour, 49 minute conclusion to the seven-sequel franchise is self-congratulatory and inanely plotted. But, as always, it's fun to watch Tom Cruise, now 62, execute eye-popping stunts.
This Hollywood memoir is an expertly mixed cocktail of history and family drama

John Powers

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Wealth comes lined with rage and melancholy in a new Apple TV+ series about a hedge-fund hotshot who loses his job and begins to steal from his suburban friends.