Peter Travers on Fault in Our Stars: It Won Me Over

With the summer movie season in full swing, things are getting busy on At the Movies. This week Peter Travers highlights two completely different movies that may have been divided on gender-lines in Hollywood, but are actually worth everyones time: The sci-fi flickEdge of Tomorrow and the young adult romanceThe Fault in Our Stars.

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First up, the guy movie:Edge of Tomorrow is based on the novel, All You Need is Kill, and stars Tom Cruise as Cage, an Army major who is tasked with combating an alien invasion (They never stop doing that, especially in the summer, Travers quips) but is demoted to private after sassing a general. Forced onto the front lines, Cage finds himself scared to death and way out of his league, but as Travers raves, It was so great to see Tom Cruise lose his shit in a movie. It was impossibly great to see him panic and not know what to do.

While Cage is quickly killed, he is actually brought back to life and must learn how to fight the aliens over and over again with the help of Emily Blunts Rita, whom Travers calls a warrior goddess.Edge of Tomorrow plays like a sci-fi action version of Bill Murrays classicGroundhog Day, and while Travers says the ending might be a bit corny, the film is still a winner.

Over on the other end of the spectrum, Travers figured The Fault in Our Stars was bound to be chick-flick hell, but he found himself thoroughly impressed with the adaptation of John Greens young adult bestseller. The film tells the story of Hazel and Gus, played by Shailene Woodley and Ansel Egort, two teenage cancer patients who meet at a cancer group and fall in love. Its a sad story, but as Travers puts it, they tell it with not just laughs, but a wonderful, sarcastic kind of humor.

Travers has high praise for both stars, but singles out Woodley, saying the actress can almost make me believe in anything. Look at me, Im pro the-chick-flick hell movie! The film is funny, surprising and, as Travers is sure to note, you wont get tear-jerked too bad until the very end.

If youre going to go see one of these movies, dont be afraid [of the other] because theres something in this for everybody, Travers says. Youve got two good choices I cant believe it!