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It isn’t easy being Walter Mitty in the year 2013. In our superhero world, Ben Stiller must have realized how much harder it is today for milquetoast men in a macho America when he set out to direct ...

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The first trailer for Ben Stiller‘s ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ was a memorable experiment in contrast. A near exclusively dialogue-free two minute preview mastered the art of music to image ...

Ben Stiller excels at playing genial outsiders lost in their personal grievances; as a director, from the unfairly maligned broadcast satire of “The Cable Guy” through the outlandish fashion world ...

Ben Stiller stars in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" isn't about the secret life of Walter Mitty. Even if Ben Stiller's new film, which he directed and stars in, ...

Everything about Ben Stiller’s movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is pretty good. Except the small matter of the secret life itself. In this modern take on the classic James Thurber short story ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

I should almost disqualify myself from reviewing The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The main character, played by Ben Stiller, works in midtown Manhattan’s Time + Life Building, my business home for 33 ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

James Thurber’s story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is very short: 15 paragraphs, barely 2,000 words. You can read it (or reread it) in less than 10 minutes: a small and sad-eyed daydream, much ...