Since he first appeared in print 69 years ago, the fictional Walter Mitty has become synonymous with ineffectual optimism. From Nixon to Bush and... The Politics of Walter Mitty, a Giant in His Own ...

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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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Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. 20th Century Fox has released a new trailer and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you don't like the trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, you won't like the movie. The two-minute teaser primes you for everything you can expect of the two-hour film: earnest life-affirming ...

I never thought the junior-high phrase “try hard” could be applied to anything other than a hardworking student until I saw “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” the Ben Stiller-Kristen Wiig comedy-drama ...

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 ...