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Tom Cruise has yet another plane to catch in The Final Reckoning. (Paramount)
Any new Mission flick is the start of a long relationship for me, and as with 2023’s Dead Reckoning, my estimation of the new one went up on a second viewing. It’s still a goddamn mess, though.
My Washington City Paper review of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, the eighth and perhaps-but-also-perhaps-not climactic MIssion is here.
When you stare into The Abyss, etc., etc. (Paramount)
When you watch 2018’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout, you can see the shot wherein Tom Cruise breaks his ankle leaping across London rooftops.
When you listen to our new Pop Culture Happy Hour on Mission: Impossible — The Final Recknoning, you can hear the moment when I suffer an aneurysm. It’s when my friends Aisha Harris and Linda Holmes once again compare these films to the Fast & Furious movies. And they are like those, in the sense that the 1969 Rolling Stones and circa 2012 Aerosmith are both rock bands.
The assembled Kurosawas of Akira Kurosawa Explains. Creator Julia Izumi is on the right. (Cameron Whitman)
Did playwright/performer Julia Izumi really create a show about or at least named after Akira Kurosawa having seen only one of the legendary filmmaker's 30 movies?
I saw it, and I'm still not sure. For the Washington Post.
Sawyer Smith is Singature’s new Hedwig. (Daniel Rader)
I reviewed Signature Theatre’s new revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It’s the whole nine yards! 324 angry inches! Check my math!
Sun’s out, guns out. Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck shoot ‘em up.
A vestigial tale to an 8.5-year-old movie where Ben Affleck plays an autistic book-cooker and throat-puncher. That’s The Accountant 2.
Lizan Mitchell and Khalia Muhammad (Chris Banks)
My review of Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s Blackburn Prize-winning play following a family through the Flint, MI water emergency is here.
In Warfare, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (center) plays Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, one the film’s co-directors. (A24)
My review of Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s extraordinary film Warfare is here.
Hannah Einbinder and Jean Smart are not getting along this well at beginning of Hacks’ new season. (Max)
I’m not usually a TV critic, but there’s a first time for every dang thing. My Washington Post review of the fourth season of Hacks is here.
