It's become fashionable in critic's circles to pronounce Tom Cruise's career as a reliable box-office draw as dead. Cruise was always held in high regard, but his bizarre, Scientology-fueled public relations campaign during the release of War of the Worlds some years ago made him the butt of endless jokes. In the interim years, Cruise has made only two films: the poorly-received political movie Lions for Lambs and the WWII thriller Valkyrie, which didn't gross as much as most Cruise films but didn't tank in the manner many had predicted. The big test is his new action flick Knight and Day. The trailer may look awful, but writer Scott Mendelson predicts the film will do well- and says that, in the aggregate, Cruise is a more reliable box-office attraction than he is given credit for. To read click here