Doug Liman's "cheerfully blistering yarn" about a pilot who flew guns and drugs for the CIA makes the most of Tom Cruise's gifts as a leading man, and Liman's directorial fondness for low-level chaos.

Film Review: ‘American Made’ Doug Liman's brash, busy CIA pilot adventure may be based on the life of Barry Seal, but it's most importantly a Tom Cruise star showcase.

When Tom Cruise blasts his dazzling smile at the camera and narrates American Made as Barry Seal, you believe everything he’s telling you, especially at the film’s already promised that ...

‘American Made’: Film Review Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman reteam for 'American Made,' a dark comedy-thriller about pilot Barry Seal, who worked for both the CIA and the Colombian cartel ...

Starring Tom Cruise as the freewheeling, fast-living Seal, “American Made” presents itself as a roller-coaster ride through a coke-fueled decade, and for the most part it works.

This film was tailor-made for Cruise, so fits him perfectly. He and Seal, who quit his day job at TWA to get entangled with the CIA, would have been bosom buddies — by all accounts, Seal was ...

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